Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-24
HInckguardIsm ana I.ropnecv.

The hired agent who is staying little
while among us under contruct with Car
lille & Co. as editor of the Press, continues
to support the new State in tho same zeal.
and effective way exhibited in the para
graphs which we quoted few days ago
from his columns That is, ne omits no
opportunity to de!ame it in every possible
way. He now talks of the Legislature aud
Convention just adjourned as having been
composed in great part of men who Eve
years hence will have TO hide themselves
from public scoru and Vengeance" Think
of that prophecy, gentlemen of the Legs.
la,ure and the Convention, which the im.
ported agent Of the "grent Rejected has
put upon the record. OF course he knows
exactly how you will stand fiveyears hence,
aud in his apoealyptic vision he sees you
pGosued by the furies into the mountains
aud the eaYerns, and there taken like wolves
and wild beasts Rud implied to the trees ana
hung from tho limNSs Of the forests. And all
for what, gentlemch of the Legislature and
the Convention J Because in your legisla
tive body you pss ssed resolution request
ing his recrestht aud treackerOus master
aud imporueriand employer to resign, and
lnyonr conventional body you endorsed
unanimously the Wiley amendment, which
on Ratt afptr the 2G,h day of March next
will be- The head stone that will mark the
grave of that same master, employer and
importer. This, gentlemen, is what uu
derlies the prophecy. 1t sa terrible i'm 4.
Preeatiou, to be sure, but you must remem-
ter that it is curse of peculiarly chcsn
kind. In the first place, it comes from a
iourneyman penny-a.liuer, who, like IL irue
Hessian Bohemian, writes Tor pay; who.
having been dishonarobly aud disRracefully
dismissed from the service Of the couArry,
was picked mp by Garlic aud brought out
here to do the work which he is aud has
heen doing, part of which was to revile
aud defame your proceedings, especially
those which bore upon his master. la the
next place. ii comes from Que who is not 80
much as a citizen of the State; who is not 10
the extent OF n single dollar connected viii,
Al who ia n nero adventurer; who voted
Tor Llncoin-gnt an office AT Washington
and was in few months dismissed in dis
grace for the reasons stated in the Dol.
letter. His prophecy can only come true
in case his friends, the rebels, Succeed in
overpOweriuG the Government ana carry.
ing West Virginia captive to Richmond an
event which he is doing his utmos, 10 nc
Complish. II can only come true wb.O no
restored Government is destroyed ; when
loyalty is killed out; when our couatry ;s
oY"rFun by guerrillas-aud when the ia.
dustry, prosperity and peace of these conn.
Ties is prostrated under the heel Of I'm D,.
Wis and John Letchers min;ons. Until that
evil and auarchical time comes the sub.
slHniiAi men Of IVES, virgiuia who were
lately gathered in Legislature ana in Con.
VentiOn will continue to be hoaore,. -.
speeted and trusted by their cOpsdmsots
They wer" men gathered from every mar,
OF West NirEtnia--citiGens and not adyen.
taFers-propsrty holders aud not disRraced
and PeaGiless tools of broken down no.
litical hack.
Now, We put ON record 4 prophecy Of a
somewhat different sort from tina, made INV
the agent of Carhls That prophecy is
that the RcCursed rebellion will h. nm,
down, and that with it will go down All
the disgsaced aad disgraseful a;ders and
abettors of IL. That the new S,.,. :.
West VinEtai" will be gsandly aud over.
EAs'mlnE'y carried through by the peo.
PIE that those who oppose it viii rsso,,
~ ,sss 'lSn one y'ae to every imaginable
anu miserable PrUtext 10 exculpa,e them.
ssi'sS and explain away their votes tina,
sHs efs'en' editor Of the Press, IL he s,av,
nsie That long, which We have no idea h.
'6'snas doing, will quote aud tequo,e. and
sla0oFats and enlarge upon that call vh,.h
ne made upon the people at every elias. -