Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-02

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Words that ought TO be Remembered
by the People OF Western Virginia.
Those men who SO nobly stood By US il
the U. 8. Senate last summer, when the
prospects of West Virginia were all over
cast, by the sudden and uuanticlpated
treaehery of Mr.. CarliIe, will deserve i'm
mortal honor and remembrance from our
people when the new State becomes one of
the Union. Chief among them will for
ever stand brave old Ben. Wade of Ohio,
whose indignant rebuke of our belrayer is
4 master piece Of scathing .loquenee. His
words ought to be published and republish-
ed in every loyal paper throughout West
Virginia, until they become as familiar as
the hills themselves to our people. On
that memorable l4th of July, when Mr.. Car
lille Was straining every effort, in company
with Powell and Salisbury and others, TO
accomplish the defeat OF the new State, to
which up to that honr be had professed
friendship, Old Ben Wade, y stranger. up
ON whom We had no claims, rose aud said:
al certainly did not Intend 10 take any
time in debating this bill but the very
extraordinary course the Senator from
Virginia has seen fit TO take has SO entirely
disappointed me that 1 almost owe an
apology to the Senate itself for urging this
measure with the zeal that l did upon its
consideration this morning. / did so at
the request of some OF the best men of that
State, not only one but many, almost sup.
plicating that we should take il up and get
through with It to day When / saw n
Senator from the State itself rise, so evil
IDENTITY with no other purpose than to talk
against time, aud thus defeat the bill, ]
was disappointed beyond measure. We
have had new proposition, long Rrgu-
ment, and q recurrence to old speeches
that had been made on former occasions,
that must be read here, all coming from "a
man pretending TO be friend of this prop
osition. Any man knows that If anything
was calculated under these circumstances
to defeat the measure, it was precisely
the course he has seen fit to take with
it. He tells us that he still is some shape a
friend to IL; but what has been the pHrport
of his speech, except to shake the conf
dence Of the Senate. itself in the Constitd-
tional Convention that framed the COnsti-
tuition which We have been asked to ratify7
He has gone back of their appointment; he
has not only undertaken TO find fault with
what they have done, but he has undertaken
70 say that they .esre not really organized to
do anything aud it is the first have heard
of any such thing. We haze sat IN
committee With thar gentleman; ne hare
heard AIS Arguments and ItuStrdtioHs on the
subjects we have had many men of the pro-
posed State before rs, in council with us
upon it; and here for The fret time ImArk
this1 to-day Ipe hear hdt he ConpenfiOH
ieho frGmsd thus CoHstitutioa really did not
rsprssent the people tghom thy professed to
rspressnt. After all the discussions 10 CON-
mittee and out of committee, and in the
Senate, to-day, for tue frst time. we hear a
DELIBERATE, PREMEDITATED attack upon the
convention that framed this constitution.
do not believe that the people of Western
Virginia expected any such arguments from
that quarter. / do not believe they would
have implored me almost to use what intiu
Oaoe might have TO bring this matter be-
fore Congress at this late period of the ses-
nion, IL they believed that one of their own
representatives Was to rise here and talk by
the hour TO endeRyor TO shake the conf
dence Of the Senate in the competency of
the convention that had framed their con-
stitution. Sir, THERR Is SOMETHING WRONG
IN THIS NATTER. do not profess to know
where Il il, but it is unusual; IL is not
what We have heard before. Il takes MS
all by surprise, and It ieopardizes th e
measure. hope from the peryersity ofauy
man, the people of Western Virginia, who
are worthy of our favor, will not cease TO re-
eeiVe It because one Of their own number
taxes a very different view Of this subject
from what 1t was expected he would take
Ihope ne shall view it as We always have
before, that the people of Western Virginia
were sincere and are sincere, and whom
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