Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-11
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We notice in the New York papers OF
Wednesday last, short synopsis of a
speech made by Senator John s. Garlic.
at meeting in the Cooper Institute, the
night before Fernando Wood was also a
speaker, and judging from the prominent
spaceEgiVen. his remarks, the principal one.
The demonstration was copperhead one
Mr.. Garlic is reported as saying in his
speech that he had sacrificed more and
suffered more for the Union than all the
abolitlonists ever did or ever would
and suffered" We do not pretend to know,
but que thing we feel certain of, and that il
that if they have not sacrificed or suffered
any more than Mr.. Carlils has, they ought
to be ashamed to pretend to any sacrifices
or suffering at all.
Mr., Garlic is a man who calculates, as
We have recently shown, in a very exag.
gerated and reckless manner. His figures
concerning the value of "greenbacks''--the
amount of the national debt &c, prove that
factI is very apparent that his estimates
of his sacrifices and sufferings been cal
culated in the came way.
Who knows of any sacrifices and suffer-
ings worthy of boast, that Mr. Carlile has
enduredR We do not Who does2 We
should like to see the individual who can
enumerate any such sacrifices or suRerings.
He has not lost any money. That We all
know. He has not lost any blood. That
we also know. He has not lost any char
acter for the cause of the Uuiou-that we
all know. He is in no event the worse for
the wear. If he is will somebody tell US
In what respect.
Mr.. Carlile!bad nothing to lose, either in
the shape of money or character, at the
starting in of his championship of the
Union cause in West Virginia. He had, on
the contrary, everything to gain. He had
no money to lose, aud he had character
to acquire. BE made more money than he
had before, and be gained more character
than he had enjoyed for many long years.
The truth is known to everybody here at
home, that Mr.. CarIile was rather an un-
done sort of man previous to the rebel
lion. There is no need to specify or par
ttOularize points, for what we say is mat
ter of common Knowledge to all people who
know Mr.. Carlile at all.
Mr.. Carlile's position by reason of the
rebellion as compared with what it was be-
fore, reminds US not little of the case Of
certain servant girl described by Joseph
Addison in his Spectator, who suddenly left
the household of very respectable gen
tlemau in London without assigning any
cause for doing SO. Meeting her few
days afterwArd in the streets dressed from
head to foot in fine clothes, he asked her
what good luck had,so suddenly beE4llen
her. "Lswks, sir" was her reply, 'don't
you know have been ruinedP"
A good deal like this servant girl is the
case of Mr.. Carlile. People might ask
with considerable propriety how it came
about that Mr. Carlile, uuheard of almost
before, had been so suddenly transferred
from embarrassment and obscurity at
Clarksburg to notOriety and plenty. Ac-
cordiug to his own account it would seem
as fit had all happened, like the good
fortune of the servant girl, by his sacrifices
and sufferiugs-his ruin.
No, Mr.. oarlile has not sacrificed and
suffered to any degree worthy of even pri-
vate mention. Like most of people in this
favored end of West Virginia he is many
fold better off than he ever was before.
He owes his seuatOrship-bis ready money
Ibis privileges, whatever they now are, to
the Uuton cause. he has suffered nothing
for it. Nothing at all. He advocated it
at the start, prominently and well, and for
that he was most abundantly rewarded by
atFu'.ing and cOutding people, whom he
afterwards betrayed aud deceived.
Shame on his boast that he has sacri-
feed and suffered SO much for the Union
cause, when the truth is it has been actu.
ally his social, pecuniary and political
salvation.
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