Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-24
F.u Pa.ts PIaIn1H ststed.

To show how hollow aud utterly ground
less is the preteuse 90 the part of the enc
uiss of the new State that their opposition
is based on their aversion TO "Cougression-
al dic,ation"-as they are pleased to style
a legitimate and proper exercise of fuue-
tioa conferred upon Congress as the repre-
sensitive Of the nation by the copstitutiOr
itsslf-we need but to appeal 10 facts
which already have become history. NJ.
Cariile IS now the recognized head aud front
of Opposition to the neH. State amongst US
just as he WAS at one time the head and
front of its advocacy. Ne CarliIe main
taius, aud his partisass for him. tia, he
was 10 favor of, aud sought, its admission
at the last session of Congress. with It's con-
stitutiou precisely as it came from The Ia
bors of the Conyention, aud that be still Is
in favor of it sat proper time ADD in
"proper7 manner. Lest any msu be de-
eeiTed by the iteration and reiteration OF
the fraudulent Pretease. let few iaeIora-
BILE facts be appealed 10
Mr.. Carlile was member of the Senate
Territorial Committee TO which was refer
Mr.. willey's word for saying that it was
referred to that committee chiefly because
Ms. CArlile rdI member of il, a. mat
ter of courtesy TO him aud the friends OF
the measure whom he vas thought to re-
present As the prOfessed friend of the
Government be at that time possessed the
confidence aud esteem of the Senate. AS
the pretended patron of the new State, the
committee turned over the whole matter
TO him, TO frame such bill az the friends
of the measure would desire. After tenn
porting and dallyipg with the matter till
the close Of the session was approaching
unpleasaptIy near, Mr.. Car1ile did at las,
draw up bill which WAS accepted by the
committee, without any especial scrutiny
FOE they we're favorable to the measure aud
wanted its friends TO have the most adyau-
tageOns bill they could. and supposed Of
course Mr. CArltle had given them such a
one. This was presented by the Chairman
as the report of the Committee.
When the report was read in the Senate
the friends of the new State measure were
amazed at the extraordinary change pro.
posed in boundary, and alarmed at the great
danger it exposed the whole project to
especially as the session was nearing it:
close and there was bat little time to cor.
rect the evil before the adjournment. Nr
Wiley at ouee called meeting of all the
Western Virginia delegation iE both Horse.
as we'll az several citizens of Western Vir.
gfuia at that time in Washington, at hi.
rooms for q consultation. To these gen.
tlemen so assembled Mr.. Wiley proposed
a substitute prepared by himself, IN sub.
stance the Same as the bill that afterwards
passed the Senate, which accepts the boun
dairy adopted by the Convention. Il wal
agreed to as Mr.. Wiley told US in his Nor
gAutown speech last sumner. mot one
voice dissenting" although Mr. CarliIe va.
present. Such was the course OF duplicity
a1d double dealing of that gentleman
Left to himself he did all in his power to
thWHrt the wishes of the people be profess
sed TO serve. Brought face to face in the
council chamber with men who were
neither to be trifed with nor deceived, he
pretended to scquiescein their wishes, aud
his hostility to the bill of Mr.. Wiley was
not known, or suspected even, till he de-
eIared 1t on the floor of the Senate. Mr,
Wiley says Mr.. Oarlile himself eysu sug-
Rested the feature of it in resemblance OF
the Missouri resolution, though that gen
tleman now contemus aud rejects it as
not at all similar. But when Mr.. Carliie
=. IL. III
reserve aud declared himself hostile TO the
admission under that bill, land if he had
uttered the wish of his heart he would have
added, or. any other. the Senate aud the
country were astounded. All his Screenings
and plottiugs and counter plOttings were
now apparent. 1t was seen that he was 10
league with such men as yuslandigham
and wickliHe, who were not only enemies
to the new State but the government itself;
and rom that day he was ranked as at best
e freud 70 the enemies Of both. No won
der old Ben Wade. who, as chairman Of the
COMMITTEES bad been made az instrument of
his treaehery; denounced him with an al
most un6ecoming warmth of indignation.
he had reason to.
Now 1s. Us see how baseless is the asser.
ton that Mr. Carlile sought admission for
the new State with its Constitution just as
it came from the Convention. This bill,
the report of the committee, drawn by his
ow1 hand-iuspired by himself-peculiarly
his own--in its very first section proposed
most extraordinary and unlocked for de-
Walton from the Constitution adopted by
the Convention; for it provided that in
addition TO the counties included by that
Instrument the following counties should