Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-31

lie, tbat his early eduestion hal bssa Doe5
neglected. HTskisg bI resent azssEtioa
in the B1ited s,n,ss sesats that zkeo .
gold dsElsr Is worth 100 eests, '.z,4eD-
back" dollar is worth osly 20 esnts, as =
eriterios of bis pEoEress. the p1blic vii Be
SoueBhGt slou % btlisIs lhat Mr. CEriiIs's
us;assr years aad better opportunities hare
sdded materially 70 bis kKoBIsdgso Of rudf-
msntAyy srithDeiie Probably sseh
mathematical 5sseo vas ser=r perpsfrsssa
in that Eaguss body before
Bat If ve must blush 70. our Senator IN
that attempt AZ esIealstfon, vhes mast We
do when We read n his editorial IN the
last CiarkzbarE Patd1e, that the public
debt Of the ration amounts noE "a ataree
billions boy who being told the
amouns IN nillions of ous debt, would
san If up AZ sas billion, LET Glsne three,
woald certainly be rejected from catering
the preliminary class Of any veil ordered
academy. Indeed, teacher in one of our
ward schools would be apt to despair Of
mstbemsuesI proficiency In any lad OF ten
ysars Of age, Who should mike SIGH 3
blunder.
But the worst Of the matter is. that the
statement was not bIuoder on tie part
of Mr. Garlic. To admit such E7pposi
ton, eTen IN charity you'd be to assert
that ne had Senator who vas simply
hopeless and iueorrigisle bloekbead. Every
one knows that Mr. CzrlrIe could not by
any possibility be ignorant of al least the
aPProximate amouut Of 0uE debt. There
vas probably not a day in the recent session
OF Congress IL which be did not hear the
approximate figures referred to. He was
as conscious a. We are of the fact tina, the
debt did not amount to oue-third of the
sum stated by him. Allowing ten hundred
millions to constitute billion. and our
debt does not come within TWO Hundred
Thousand dollars of being one-third of
three billions. NJ. CArIile knew this fact
when he wrote his editorial just as well as
we know it now. Why then did he state
it? The answer is easy enough We have
only to quote the coniexl in which the as
Bertiou occurs TO fiud out why he told such
shameless falsehoOd Here are the sen
tences:
We have now for near two years been
engaged in an exhRusting Wer. AT least
Oue-third of the whole military force of the
loyal States has already entered the army
OF the United States. The men liable 10
militia duty constitute the Industrial as
we'll as the military force of the country.
II may be sAfely assumed that the Govern
meut has now in its employ in a civil aud
military capacity, two thirds of the entire
industrial population of the country, and
these two-thirds are living of OF, aud being
supported by, the other third. How long
can this country, great in resources as il
i9. stand such process of depletion?-
What has been gained for the loss to the
industry of the country of ambition, of men,
who heretofore supported themselves, but
now are supported By taxation; what has
been gained by an expenditure of three
billions of money, and the creation of u
corresponding debt
Does any one doubt after reading the
above extract, Why Mt. Carlile set down
the national debt at "three billions ~
Does any one doubt that he wautonly.
mischtevously aud dislOyaIly told delib.
crate lie :? Has be a sympathiaer who will
say, by way of extenuatiou for him, that
MI, Garlic was mistaken either as to how
many millions constituted billion, or as
to the approximate figures of the debt as
given by the Secretary of the Treasury aud
other official and reliable authorities y
Has he q sympathizer, in short, who will
risk his own reputation by saying that Mr
oarlile was ignorant of the figures fur.
nished BY these authorities, aud tina, he did
not wholly and unscrnpulOusly pervert
them2 We Opiue not. We should like to
see such man.
No, the truth is, as is,shoWu by the ex.
5 tract quoted, that John S. CarliIe recog.
mixes the fact that he is now diseraced.
Fepudiated, and thoroughly understood and
detected man. He is desperate. He esres
not for figures, facts or truth of any
kind. he is deVilishly bent on some re-
tEieyalOf his hopeless fortunes, BE has no
hopes in the success either of West vir.
gtnia OF the nation at large. Mouths ago
he went into cOuclavs with vallaudigham
atWashingtOu, into that dark, conspiracy Of
traitors whose dOings afterward appeared
In the shape of an address to the people of
the country. Mouths ago he went to In
dianapOlis. Months ago he had Waldo p
Johnson, now in the confederate army, for
his boon companion both here and at
Washington, and months ago he said that
the fght was now for a boundary. LOYAL
people viii readily understand, therefore,
what such man means by asserting that
thepp6lic dsheisE now .thres Billions of
!. dollars Hs mepns public fright-dsspair
turning away from the Union cause
aeqpiescenee in the rebel demands digi-
: sion of the county ignoble submission
to JEFF. Davis. Mr.. Garlic knoWs chat so I