Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-24

upon rs Surely the new State had mo-
thing to gain BY The. expense and delay of
another eoaveniiOu which could do nothing
not competent for The present one TO do.
The briggs usnaruraIIy upon the kerneto OF
the whole plot. Nr.CarliIe who had attained
the object of his ambition, seat ~ The U. S.
Senate. aud then turned migrate upon a too
generous =ad over eon6ding people, Who
bad been secretly writing leiters TO iufiu-
entail gentlemen throu ghOut Western Viz
ginia, urging them to use their influence TO
defeat the constitution at the polls, still ae-
ting IN eoDjuetion With such dislOyAlists as
YaIlandigbaul, Wiekliffe And Salisbury who
recognized the fact understood by the re-
bells everywhere that the erection OF new
State out OF West Virginia WAS direct
aud severe blow on the rebellion, sought to
defeat the measure forever, aud attempted
10 do it under the mask Of friendship
Taking advantage of the confidence repos-
ed 10 him he Incorporated in his bill a
change of boundary 50 great and violent
that its adoption would have utterly de-
stroy all possibility of sueeess. An immense
scope of territory disloyaI TO the United
States and hostile to as and our measure,
was to be included. Aud then the whole
work was to be done over There was to
be another Convention when this terrific
TWAS cleaned out. e. when the war was
over. Then the Convention was to be
elected on basis dictated by Congress-
This Convention WAS to duplicate the de-
lay. the expense the irritation and dissAt-
isfsetiOu Of the last one, only the expense
would have been much greater, aud the de-
lay longer on account of the utter impossi-
biity of harmouizing It's discordant eIe-
nents. Finally, if it could.hare agreed on
Constitution, it would beyond dOub,
have been one emitting the provision re-
CURED by the Garlic bill admitting the
State, and then of course the whole thing
would have fallen fat to the ground, for
without it the act admitticg US would have
become a nullity, and that would have
been the end of it all. Even suppOsiug
it possible that such Convention could
have embodied an emancipation provision,
it would have been voted down in such a
boundary and there would have been the
end of it anyway.
Such was the result contemplated by the
farIeaching craft of tue men who auimat.
ed and directed Mr.. Carlile; for the mas.
terry strategy which an admirer of his 10
the Pre.1 gave him credit for 10 STAYING
off the admission at the last session, was
not all his own. Longer heads than hi.
we're a. work at the prombiem, and he wal
but their willing instrument aud fellow
helper. 1t was to cover up this fatal dos,
that he paraded his emancipation prOvia
ion in the frst section of his bill. To maxi
this deadly potion work he was willing tc
subject bis people to any dictation be nigh
6nd necessary to accomplish his purpose
and all because he knew it would uude
bis treatment never come to anything. Ye
this man and his followers now deeIar,
they are the friends of a new State and tina
Mr.. CarIile sought aud advocated its ad
mission by Congress on the basis of tn,
Constitution just as it came from the hand
of our Convention. Was ever truth s.
outraged? Was ever history SO faIsi6ed
Was ever a people SO betrayed: Let the in
contrOvertible facts we have cited furnish
the answer.
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