Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-01

most the same clause TO which he eIeepts /
in Mr.. willey's bin, by providing that
"from and after the 4th day of July, 1858, i
the children of all slaves born. within the /
limits of said State, shall be free" You
will see that be says explicitly that the
Convention (which he proposes to call.
| shaU IN the Constitution framed !
by it,T make an emancipation proTi- |
sion. Yoo win still further see that his
bill dictates the number of Representatives
which each county shall send to his Con-
Vsurion, thing unheard of in the annals
of American Legislation Aud you will
still lurther see thst, allowing his Conven-
ton to assemble and to do the work which
he prescribes for it, its labors would be
altogether invalid by reason of the fact
that they are not TO be submitted to Con-
gress for adoption or rejection. He makes
Congress commit the monstrous and I'M
constitutional folly of saying in advance,
that any constitution which his -ConTen-
ton may prepare will be accepted, and all
that VIII be necessary will simply be that
the President proclaim his proposed State
admitted into the Union.
We venture the assertion that neither the
reading apd still less the Observation of
any member Of your honorable body, can
recall any parallel to the grossuess of such
dictasiou. Its whole authorship clearly
betray. sn intent to Kill the new State.
There was. Re Expectation in the mind of
AIR. GaElilethathis bill would ever mature.
l.It pas siuufpiy stub ,othe whale behind
which he might escape his pledges to the
people at the TING Of his election as U. S.
Senator. You will perceive that the cOuu-
ties which ne arbitrarily adds to the new
State are not geographically a part of it
And further it viii be EkoWu to you, that
every one of them is 10 red lIiOu, and Oecp-
pied by the rebel forces. Ind that there
never was any prospect, ed n were they a
natural part of a new State. that they
!. would be 10 condition even if they would
under any Circumstances, have any desire,
to send Representatives to Convention, the
main sad most radical provision of whose
enaetmeuts should go Into effect on the
9Th day of July 1868.
But the point 20 which We would espe-
perislly call your AttentiOn is the fact, that
MF. Carlile dared ,olsupplsnt the whole ac-
, ton of the people of West yirginia through
their convention, even to the extent of So
persediug that convention and calling an
l other. as though il were any part of the
business Of Congress to originate con
= Ventions in Virgins or elsewhere, for any
e purpose whatsoever He assumed not only
I, to nullify the work Of that convention and
4 the ratification of it by the people, but he
3 assumed 10 strike out of existence con-
Teniion then IN esss by the vote of the peo-
pie. Not only that, but he dictated the
} terms aud the only terms upon which a
convention. unknown and unthOught Of
e should be assembled, and parcelled out to
: it in most vital and radical particulars
D The exact work which ii should do. And
: as If ali these nsurpations and follies and
4 uoustrosities in legislation, were moi
E enough, he actually prescribed that Con-
E gress should abdicate its peculiar cOnstitu-
tioual prerogatiye, of Judging whether the
e consultation of any State when framed, is
or is not in conformity with the genius OF
2 our institutions.
Il We need say no more to the members o.
the House by way of drawing their atten,
ton TO the two bills published to-day. The
# digest on our frat page shows what the
E people Of West Virginia think of each, aud
especially how emphatically they condemn
the bill drawn by Mr.. Carlile. The petit
9 tons which will be presented by Messrs
BIair,s Brown and Yh4ley, will show just as
emphatically how all bat unanimous the
= people are for the adoption of the Senate
bill by your body. The declarations of the
! people of West Virginia, reprobating Mr..
Carlile's course on the new State aud his
detection tothe Union cause, and rePudi-
ating his representatiVeship are fuller than
. they appear 10 our brief synopsis. Many
! of the resolutions of public meetings were
DOT accessible to US, aud others, for in
4 stance those,ofth county meeting in his
own town, were lost in ,rausitu. But it is
snfacien, for US to tell you that not a meet
ing in Western virginia, with perhaps a
single exceptions. has endorsed him. sosfar
as We can recall no public man in thi.
county was ever SO universally or SO iu-
dignantly repudiated by his constituency.
But it may be asked by you, how did this
bill of Mr.. Carltle's, so impoteut and so
iusincere, ever coms.to be the report of the
Senate Territorial Committee In answer
We would refer ,you to Mr.. wade,s e4posi-
tion of the matter ON pages 8 ,si4-1s Of part
4th of the Congregational GIO6e aud Appeu-
dix. You viii there 6nd that Mr. Wade,
for himself aud the Committee, rspudiated
any authorship in. the bill, and boldly de-
uouuced the Imposition and treachery which