Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-12
Thursday Morning, January IL.


Our readers will have noticed in the
dispatches yesterday morning the extreme
grounds taken by Mr.. John s. Carlile, in
the United States Senate, in regard to the
right and authority Of the Government to
conscript anybody for the army, either
white or black. Mr. CarIile denied the
right in toto, and while doing so took oc.
casion to air his old sentiments in regard
to slavery, saying among other things that
he "beIieVed it to be a civil and polit-
icaI blessing" This latter remark We
fancy must have provoked not only
a derisive smile from nine.tenths OF
the Senators listening to him, but also,
a feeling akin to pity for man who at
this late day esteems the respect of public
opinion SO lightly. 1t is almost as if the
delegate from Utah in the lower house
should arise in his place and talk about
poligamy, slavery's "twin relic of barbar-
ian" being ga civil and political blessing. u
Members of course listen to all such stuff,
aud the reporter of the Associated Press feels
himself bound to telegraph it all over the
country, if for nothing else, because of its
ridiculous novelty aud hardihood these
days. Even Salisbury and Powell in the
Senate draw the question of slavery mildly
of late, contenting themselves with pro-
tecring its retreat out of existence, but
Garlic, bankrupt in political status, feels
that he can afford to attract notice at
any expense whatever. What change
for him since this war has commenced ?
There was a time when the mind OF
man could not have devised a scheme
too radical in its character for
Garlic as against both rebels in arms
and rebels in sympathy. 1t is per
haps, natural that man who, from
frat to last, always took counsel of his
fears, and never of his moral judgment,
should have long since become alarmed fol
the issue of struggle much more pro
tracted than he contemplated. As lonl
ago as the summer of 1862 he was con.
WINGED that the contest then was simply 9
question of boundaries, and this idea be,
came hobby with him. Thus believing
tits not strange that since that time. pro.
Tossing as he does about slavery, that he
should have become an out and out apos.
tate to almost anything like Uniouism.-
DR.. Breckinridge at Baltimore.in June last
said what was philosophically trHe-viz
that man whose heart was with slavery
cannot be for war which involves the
destruction of slavery, ana that if he, fol
one, was believer in it's pretensions hC
should be against the war. Carlile i!
witness to the correctness of this put.
ting of the case by DR.. Breckenridge
He Ia thorough partizAn Of slavery
aud he ia in addition long since cou
WINGED that it will win it's independence,
in some way or in some measure. Hi
fears have told bin that much, and, as VI
said, he is II man who is led and controlled
by his personal appreheneions of the fu
ture. Hence his present contradiction O
ali his former ultraism about the power o
the government in reference to the war
As Ilere WAS no extreme to which he ono
would not have gone in the one direction
so there is none now to which he woult
not go in the other After the 4th o
March next it will matter very little wha
he thinks or says about the war and it
cause. 1t is only important now becaus
of his position aud his vote.