Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-19
anorge W. summer and oongress.

eaoree ". summers and Congress
There are some persons in West Virgin
Ia at this time who are apparently concern
ed about the Hon. Geo. W. Summers :
Gbout what can be done for him in polit
ical way about what would be q tittin
honor to bestow upon him. One woul
suppose ftom the disquietude manifesto
by some of his f-iends that he had beel
induced by them to come out at last on tn
side of the Union and the new State, un'
der their pledge that the people would i'm
mediately take hold of him and re-invest
their confidence in him as in the days
of old. Aud further superstition would
naturally be that the fears of these friends
are now excited lest they will not be able
TO make good their pledges, and, in
that event, they are dreading that Mr.
Summers will relapse into that profound
condition of neutrality so persistently
maintained by him during the last two
years and half Apparently it is not in
the programme to let Mr.. Summers alone
TO let him remain a becoming time in that
retirement which he SO inexorably pre-
scribed and demanded for himself during all
the period in which the fortunes and pros
meets of the Union aud the new State were
under cloud. 1t is not to be with him as
with ordinary backsliders. The rule OF
Scripture is to be reversed in his case. To
whom much has been given, little will be
required, is the new reading of an old pas
sage. Mr.. Summers is to be honored as a
condition of his coming forward at the elev-
enth hour, after the battle had been fought
and won, and taking position with mis-
people on the side of successor the side
of events-on the only side that was left.
The merit of his doing SO is considered,
apparently, SO extraordinary, and SO pat
ronizing aud SO fattering to the people,
that despite all their symptoms of WHrinoss
and GOODNESS, he is to be foisted on their
acceptance Us leader, and they are to take
him in their arms and ask him what it is
they can do to show their gratitude for his
eleventh hour gravitation into their ranks.
Wewrite these observations after read
ing a communication. in the Cincinnati
Commercial of Saturday last, sent to that
paper, we presume, from the Kanawha
country. In that communication the speech
of Judge Summers at the Court House
here is much beprsised, and the fact that
he received few votes on the following
day for U. S. Senator, is dwelt upon as a
significant indication of the way in which
public sentiment in West Virginia de-
lights to honor and endorse record like
that of Judge Summers. The communi-
cation closes with the announcement that
sat the urgent solicitation OF. friends, he has
consented to be candidate in the Sd Con-
gressional district of West Virginia for g
seat in the House of Representatives" and
also declares that s'no better man can be
sent from the State," and further that che
is always true to his constituency" After
thus announcing and thus declaring, the
writer of the communication finally ends
in these appropriate words:
fortunate aud happy for the Kanawht
country and the whole State to have MIR
Summers as their representative in thu
next Congress-"
This communication is apparently par
of the made up programme concerning
Judge Summers. Whether or no, he is t
be put forward without any regard for tn
prophecies OF his new position. facti
titious popularity is sought to be create
in his behalf by presuming upon his for
mer prestige with the people and the hig
repute in which they once held his talents
The zeal of his immediate friends does Mt
permit them to recognize the fact this
Judge Summers of to-day is very ditfel
erent person in the popular appreciatio
from Judge Summers three years ago.
he was not it would be indeed NOR
phenomenon in the last degree disCoural
ing and demoraliEing to the public virtu
fit is true as the writer of the commun
cation quoted from, says it is, that "u
better man can be sent from the State, the
we say with the Richmond Enquirer, thu
ait is ill with us aud our postesity fore,
or" II 1t has come to pass that faithful
ness and Observation-Disclosures an
cowardice-patri aud mammon-haN
the same estimation in the public min,
then it is true that Judge Summers will d
lust as we'll as any other man to represer
his district in Congress. But if it is n,
true that good and bad are all one wit
his constituents, then is Judge Summer
the last of all public men to send to WASH
ington. he has not the shadow of clail
to 20 there. peaceable obscurity is a
that he deserves from the people of We.
Virginia during the remainder of his lif'
In the hour of their extremity he stoicall
aud sslfshiy deserted them. For more tina
twoyears he never opened his mouth to 50
even one indifferent word of encouragement
tothem The work has all been done withou