Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-28

MIR. CarIiIe's Quotation from Senator
Wade, with m Additional one by
Ourselves.
Mr.. Carlile did an eminently character
istic thing last Friday night in the course
of his speech-nud one that was in unison
with his whole tortuous, shutting, garbling
and double course since be was elected
Senator. He undertook to make his audi
ence believe that Senator Wade meant to
pay him high compliment in the follow
ing passage in his (Wade's) speech in the
Senate on the new State question:
"He CCarlile) of all the men in the COM
mittee is the man who pcnned all these
bills and drew them up. He is the man
who has investigated all the precedents to
see how far you could go in this direction.
1t was to his lucid mind that were iudcbt-
ed for the fact that there were no legal or
constitutional barriers in the way of thus
proposition. He submitted to the labor; he
did it cheerfully; he did it backed up by
the best men of his State and section"
The above extract from Mr.. Wade's
speech Mr. Garlic read to his audience,
and told them without blush that by it
Mr.. Wade bad meant to pay him great
compliment, and he regarded it, ne said,
''as the greatest compliment that ever was
paid him." Some one in the audience
called out to Mr.. Carlile to "read on" but
Mr.. Carlile did not read on. Not he. His
audience would soon have seen how
much of a compliment Mr.. Wade meant
to pay him. The next sentence or two
would have disclosed anything else but a
compliment would have shown that Mr..
Wade meant to, be as severe-as sarcastic
and as reproachful as he could that he
meant to show up the double and treacher-
GUS game that Mr.. CarliIe has played not
only towards our people here but towards
the Senate aud towards his fellow members
of the Territorial Committee. If Mr.. Car
lille eau hitch the following quotation from
MIR. wade's speech-the second sentence
from where he stopped-to what he read,
and then squeeze or garble or distort a
compliment out of any part of the whole
speech, he is even more of astute trick
ster than we take him to be-great as we
concede his talents as trickster to be.
Said Mr.. Wade continuing on.
"He (Carlile) is the gentleman who i'm
pressed June SUuIISSlOhGISJ
upon the Committee as strongly as any
body else, aud what change has come over
the spirit Of his dream know not. HIS
converSion is greater than that of st. Paul
He has persuaded us that the measure t0ds
right He has appeared side by side with |
his able Governor, who urged this upon US
as measure vital to the interests of the
State that he represents. All at once (mark |
this) after persuading US to bring tue Ques- |
a..
ed his powerful aid to help us push it
through, we are brought up standing by his
powerful opposition. Why did he investi-
gate? Why did he persuade the committee
that all tOas yight2 Why did he (mark this)
persuade us that there tpaS scarcely dis
Senting voice in all that part OF Virginia, if
now he has discovered that it was all
wrong"
This quotation, coupled with what Mr..
Carlile read, looks very like as if Mr.. Wade
meant to pay him compliment, doesn't
it'll Wouldn't any one naturally suppose
from the reading of it that Mr.. Wade had
high opinion of John S. CArliIe?-
Mr. Wade would like to make an intimate
friend aud confdant of the man he speaks
of above, and take him to his heart with
out even misgiving to whetherhe would
notcertainly betray him.
A compliment, iudeedl What COM
plimentI Such compliments are exceed
ingly cheap, and we know of no man save
Mr.. Carllle who would feel fattered over
them. A mans bump of self-idolatry
must be inordinately diseased when he can
cons:rue such language into compliment.
We happen to know that Senator Wade
has anything else than a complimentary
opinion of John s. Carlile. And we know
of no man in Congress who has, save, per-
chance, it be such men as he met in eau
Gus with-such men as Vallandigham,
Voorhies, Salisbury and that style, and we
doubt if even they would trust Mr.. Garlic
after what they have seen of his course to-
wards those who were once his friends.
But Mr.. Garlic may tell people as he did
last Friday night, that he was not opposed
to the Wheeling Convention bill itself, as
it was sent on to Congress, but only to the
amendments that were offered, and accept
ed by Mr.. Wiley. Or he may tell them in
still stronger language, as he did at CIarks-
burg last Thursday night, as found in the
printed report of his speech, that "he soas
the only member either Of the iSsuqtsOr of the
H0uss sa9hO made any effort to get Vest Vu-
GINA admitted into the Union Nth the Con-
stitution framed by the Wheeling Convention
and ratified blythe people" Mr.. Carlile may
tell people such stuff as this, but it will
not weigh feather. Mr.. Wade meets the
gentleman on this very poiut-auticipating
some such subterfuge-and at single