The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-31
The DAILY REGISTER,
Hon. j. B. Blair.

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0 This gentleman who is now the apex {
the Parkersburg pyramid of ofticeholders,
pyramid perhaps not as solid as those fan
GUS ones of Egypt upon which NAPoiEo
said "forty centuries roasted, is completed
, in fog. at least SO far as human eye ca
see. We suppose, however, when the DE
Gem Der sun of Congress shallshave shone
while upon the place where he is, we shal
have the extreme felicity Of seeing him I'll
all his glory We do not intend to say Mr.
B. is "under a cloud" now-only simply
that mist has foated around his angus,
head, which nothing but the genial warmth
/ of Administration favor cau,dispel What
ROSY rainbow will be there when ABRAHAM
smiles approval at his vote for Clerk of the
House! How then will the curling, feeey
vapors float beautifully up to melt against
the tinted glass of the Representative
Hall, and Mr.. BLAIR will stand before the
"country as he is" The syren song of this
"Katy did and Katy didn't" statesman O.
will then be no "uncertain SQUAD Loud
and clear, probably; will he set forth his be-
lief that he cannot support the war without
voting for Black Republican Clerk.
One of those politicians whom the war
has made, owing his place to the convul-
sions of society, which he has not the power
of mind to comprehend, along with many OF
his amazed and bewildered countrymen,
and dazzled by his nearness to the Ruling
Throne, we can expect nothing OF
him better than to be lead by the more ex-
periencsd, but less honest men into whose
arms we fear he has thrown himself.
Mr.. B. climbed into Office pretty much
in the same way as he climbed into the
Presidents House on Thanksgiving day
morning-through window that was not
properly fastened And in so doing
got politically into about as doubtful a.
position, as was his physical one when he was
poised face down upon Old ABE's window
sill. The refined etiquette of Washington
undoubtedly was modest enough to spare
our housebreaking Representative the NOR
tifcation of being gazed at in his ridicu-
lous posture, but we plain people here in
West Virginis must be excused from letting
him off SO easily in respect to his equally
absurd political attitude.
Hisgeueral record in Congressis still fresh
enough in the memories of his constituents,
to enable them to see any deviation he may
make in the coming session. lie opposed
the Emancipation of Slavery in the District
OF Columbia, opposed the Negro Enlistment
Bill, considered the Emancipation Procla-
nation wrong, and doubted the Consttu-
tionality of portions of the Confscation Act
and yielded, as was supposed, his acquss-
cence to many things done by the Republi-
cans simply as an offset to what they might
do in making West Virginia State. In
Hancock county, however, in speech be-
fore the people, he said he was sorry he
had not seen the wisdom Of the radical
measures before, but he "saw it now,
and would do better in the future. This
was IA tub to the Abolition whale But
when he got down into Ritchie county
where he had been a candidate for the Le-
gislature of Virginia from "time inmemo-
rial" he was incensed at the "incorrect re
port of his Hancock county speech, as
published in the IntelHgencsr, and took
different hue. Now the election is over and
be has scrambled into his hole, December
alone will unesrth him and reveal his color.
We sincerely wish he could come out aohlte
Upon the Congressman OF West Virginia
will likely fall the responsibility Of the or
eapization of the next House. Here now
| is an opportunity for Mr.. BLAIR to confirm
his wavering position, to show the country
whether he is q statesman or drlvelIng
politician and to earn the gratitude OF the
lovers and defenders of Constitutional llber-
ty everywhere. Nothing would give us
more pleasure than to discover ourselves
mistaken ip our estimate OF Mr.. BLAIR
ability and patriotism, and that he viii
stand by the whole country in its hour o
trial.
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