Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-29

sons one, over name not familiar to
us, sends a letter from Wheeling to the
New York World, in reference to that
clause in the Democratic address signed
by Jno. s. Carlile and others, which decries
the formation of bogus States under the
present Administration, West Virginia
among the rest. We print this letter on
our first page. The writer, evidently a
man of considerable intelligence, sees how
awkwardly the Democracy of West Vir-
ginia are to be circumstanced, if West Vir-
GINA is to be pronounced bogus by the
party at Chicago and other places. Hence
such letters of exception TO the Democratic
address as the one we print.
The signature of Jno. s. Carlile to the
Democratic address, 80 far as it denounces
West Virginia as a bogus State, is most
braEen exhibition indeed. Were that man
not wholly lost to shame, he would much
sooner have held his hand in the flames
and burned it to q crisp than to have
signed such q confession of utter dishon-
esty aud hypocrisy. he, the man who
wanted to erect two Congressional districts
in West Virginia into State, by force,
without even submitting the act to vote
of the people, is marvellously proper ex-
ponent to stand forth on behalf of the "De-
mocracy," and protest against the forms-
ton of bogus States. The writer of the
letter, in his anxiety to separate our
new State movement from that of such
ed communities, and thus mitigate the
status of West Virginia in the eyes of the
Democracy" goes on to show that the
administration had nothing to do with the
movement-that it was not patronixed by
the government authorities at Washington,
as is evidenced by the opposition of Mr..
Wiley, "then in the confidence of the ad-
uinistratiou, who condemned the move
ment for a division of the state, proposed
by Mr.Carlile. as triple treason" remark
which would certainly not have fallen
from a man in his position had the move
ment been dictated by the administration"
These lines, just quoted, are all bunkum,
and they mis-. state the case as every one
here conversant with the facts we'll knows.
MIR. Wiley did not at that time stand in
the relation indicated to the administra-
ton. On the contrary he was an opponent
of the administration, having gone SO far
as to say in Fairmont and in Morgantown,
that Mr. Lincoln ought to have been hung
for calling ont $4,000 men to defend the
National capital, and also to advise inac-
t;on on1 rapRroI;t1, hare ~ wa.t U;.c;,;o
as between the government aud the rebels
OF all men in the May convention of 1851
he was the one who least represented the
views and feelings of the administra-
ton. He did not accord with the admin
istration on the new state or reorganized
state question any more than he did as to
it's policy of coercing the rebellion. Ithss
been the power and pressure of events and
public opinion, and nothing else, that has
put Mr Wiley in position to be quoted
IS he is by the Worlds correspondent.
The movement for reorganization was a
different movement from that of division,
although the two went hand in hand and
were as a general thing advocated by the
same men, and both had the patronage OF
the administration in this way: First, the
Secretary of War and other heads of De-
psrtments, recognized the reorganized
State. Then, having recognised it and treat
ed with it as valid State Government, of
course Congress was bound to treat as valid
its legislative action by which permission
was given for the formation of a new State.
The Democracy" at Chicago can be driven
to the wall by their brethren here on the
merits of this statement. Let them ask
the vallandighau peace men and the
Mcclellan war men what they would have
had the people of West Virginia to do
as between the government aud the
rebellion in the Spring of 1861. If they
say that the pnHernmant did rirht O. "a