Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-03-06

acts of his army shall indicate the policy and
purpose If his Government. B 80 III |
Carlile's Attack upon Sumner. ~
l. From The, y. Y Tribune. of Saturday .niuu
We notice in a debate ofthe Other day in
the Senate an Assault upon Senator Sum
nor by MIR. Garlic Of Western Virginia, of
which we cannot speak without terms of
%censure which.it gives us pain to employ
In common with the friends of freedom
throughout the country, we hailed with joy
the effort of q small portion of Virginia, in
which Slavery had scarcely any foothold, to
emancipate itself from the control of the
great slaveholding party in the eastern and
southern portion of hat State. We watch.
ed with delight the progress of our arms
which drove the Rebels from Wheeling,
Grafton, Philippi, and Laurel Hill, and res
cued all the western slope of the Alleghe-
MES from their grasp. When the expulsion
was complete, we welcomed the efforts of
the population to reorganize their institu-
tions, under the pressure of the great exi.
gency in which they found themselves. We
saw q Convention at Wheeling ignore the
constitutional existence of the State OF Vir-
ginia, proceed to organize a Government OF
their own, elect q Governor, %inaugurate a
State, and choose Senators to the Congress
of the United States. When those Sena-
tors presented themselves at Washington,
VIC saw them admitted without a regret, for
we believed that they had experienced the
oppression Of slevehelding faction till some
honest love f3f freedom had been evolved
by the hard discipline which they had un-
dergone. 1t is with the profoundest regret
that we now perceive in the conduct of one
of those Senators an arrogance and violence
in defense Of Slavery which show him at
heart false to all the new rights and priv
leges conferred SO freely on him and on his
constituents, and to nl tho responsibilities
which they involve u temper which gives
us to understand that we are to expect from
him only a repetition of the course of in
dOmineering course of the previous Sena-
tors of Virginia, of whom the rebellion
had freed us. IN
Mr.. Garlic accuses Senator Sumner of
dislOyalty, declares that such accusations
are presented in fourteen Northern papers,
and that he himself eff Sworn as 4 Juror,
would he obliged to say that the disloyalty
was proved not only by his utterances
and sentiments, but by acts. And one of
these acts, he tells US, lis the proposition
he gravely submitted to the Senate to-day
to blot ont of existence eleven of the States
Of this Union"
This accusation comes with an i'll grace
from the lips of Mr.. Garlic. He is him
self a Virginian, and has sworn allegiance
to that State, now so deep in this foul re.
bellion. If the State of Virginia has still
all organic existence, by what right does he
occupy that place in tho Senate which on
titles him to insult, one of the most patriotic
of its members2 The State Of Virginia
never sent Mr.. Garlic to the Senate. He
represents no constitutianally existing body
on that floor. Supple and s%ervile ms he may
become, he could not do the work which
Virginia has long wished to have done there.
She would ~ropnaiate. and reject with con.
tempt all his offers 10 serve and nh kas pro.
~fessions to represent her in the Congress OF
the United States. No Legislature known
f to the Constitution has chosen him a Sena.
tor, nor has any authorized constituency'sen
him to Washington He stands there the
representative ola revolutionary proceeding
which has forcibly ruptured a Constitutions
|, State, and out of one Of the jagged fragment,
has shaped in a hasty and irregular why an,
other, which has no. Constitutional existence,
and which, if the arms of the Union did no,
protect itagainst the established claims oil
Virginia, would sink at once into an abjcct
r and hopeless dependence upon the Slave
Power. And almost the fret use which
|, this Senator by suffeTance makes ofthis con
| ceded and gratuitous dignity is to assai
with words Of contumely a member Of the
Senate whose right there is unquestioned
whose history there's the history ofour new
ly recovered freedom, and whose aims are
| in an unusual degree above all suspicion
/ and all reproach: Had Mr.. Garlic himself
1 stood upon the floor of the Senate as tho
representative ola sovereign State, witt
, all the rights Of long prescription, and al
tho %scrupuious observance of Constitutions
! forms in which conservatism finds respecta
bility, his assault might have been indec
orous and unworthy, but it would not hay,
been, as il now is. feeble and ridiculous
ii But for the irregular and unauthorized re
: preventative of an unconstitutional and per
I haps abortive State-a State not yet sure
5 of existence de .facto, and utterly destitute
II ofany claim de. 1re.-for one who represent.
nothing under heaven but the right of revo.
luton against a rebellious State 10 cas-,
these charges of d~isloyalty upon q Senator
Of Massachusetts, isa simple impertinence,
to which We are oil glad to see that his OPP
ponent did not deign to reply. ,nt ~
The temper Of Mr.. Garlic, upon every 90.
casion on which the Slavery question comes
. before the Senate, is such as may well sug.
|, gest additional caution in respect to the ad.
mission OF the State which he claims TO re.
! present. 1.-THE rights Of the Rebel States
, are 30 sacred as he pretends, it may be well
, TO inquire whether they are to be violated
I for his benefit, and whether his section has
5 any claim to outrage and dismembsr the
} Old Dominion. II may be wellto repair
the wrong which hhsalready been done to
a constitutional Ststs,,if the constitutional
|, rights o fthe Rebellion are to be so ugidly
/ observed, to let the Counties Of Western
) Virginia return to their humble allegiance
10 the Shareholders whose rights their repre-.
sentative so tenaciousiy defends, and to al
low Mr.. Garlic himself to return to the
: obscurity from which he has emerged appar
: entity to 10 little purpose.