The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-26


SIuin Sin Pieces
r,,c plan OF Salvation Exhausted.
From the Washington correspond
ence of The Baltimore Sun of last Fri
day, reporting the closing proceedings
in the Senate Thursday night, we take
the folio wing:
is difficult to account for the sud
den change of sentiment of the Senate
last night in regard to the nomination
OF Mr.. GARLIC, OF West Virginia, which
was confirmed, and the vote afterwards
reconsidered. 1t is understood that the
President earnestly desired his conhr-
nation, and that Senator BOreDIG7l arg
ed il earnestly upon the ground of party
erpedieucy, cOnte1ldtng that IL Mould 40
mare to cement the republican party IN
West Virginia than any other act.
From the Washington correspondence
ofthe New Yor!: Times Of last Friday,
reporting the closing proceedings in the
Senate Thursday night, we take the fol-
lowing:-
Hslfan hour later, J. 8. Carlile was
confirmed by close vote as Minister
10 Stockholm, Bfr. Foreman made
strong speech in his favor. The existence
of Republican Party IN West Ttrgln
ia, said Foreman, depended on ms cont1r-
nation.
From the Washington correspon-
dence Of the Philadelphia Inquirer of
last Friday, reporting the closing pro-
ceeiings in the Senate Thursday night,
we take the following:
On Senator BOrcmG7s stating that
President Grant personally desired ne
confirmation of lIr. CdTLtLe. and that il
,<,I of14Sn RI fLo RpIMDIIc(Ln mar
ty m West Virginia 1VOuLd 90 to pieces,
the Senate yielded their hOatlhty to
hlm Notwithstanding he has been
against the Republican party for three
years.
For our West Virginia readers not
one word of comment upon these eX-
trAOrdInary declarations Is needed.
They will be received all over the State
by both parties with establishment and
deriBion. The knowledge of everybody
here couIradicts them. But to our
readers and exchanges in other States,
where these statements are liable to be
believed (as they were believed in the
Sennte) to the discredit and Injury OF
our people, we wish briefly to review a
few circumstances which chow them
not only untrue but impossible.
In 1861 Mr.. Carlile. held up to the
work By has associates in this city, who
k.,t him supplied with both money
and courage. rendered E0od service to
the Union cause in helping reOrganize
civil government in this part of Vlr-
giuis; and for this he was made Sen
utor Of the United States from the reor-
KIuiz.d government of Virginia, the
position having been given him. in
fact, by the people now included in
West Virginia. Prior to his election to
the Senate he had been an active, osten-
tatiOus, almost intolerant advocate OF
the separation of Western from
Eastern Virginia. He was sent 10
the Senate with the full expectation
that ne would aid us in effecting that
separation. But having got into the Sen
ate by the favor of this people. "he pro-
ceeled forthwith" as Mr.. Greeley says,
to betray these who put him there
not only the people here in the matter
of our new State, but the party that
was holding up the hands OF thu Gov
eminent in the war. He went over
bag and baggage TO Vatlandigham and
his "peAce" party, then as thoroughly
reasonable as the rebel armies in the
field. When the Constitution of West
Virginia went before Congress, he
fought our admission to the bitter end,
and before his treAchery was fully I'M
masked greatly endangered it. Then,
after the disaster TO the Union arms on
the Peninsula i'll the summer of 1862,
H., A.,
new levies of troops were called for,
when the hearts of many misgave
them. and Copperheadism raised its
head with more boldnt 50 than at any
other period of the struggle, Garlic af-
ter meeting in conclave with Nalian-
dighnm and his fellows, came here to
Western Virginia and took the stump
against further prosecution OF the "In-
constitutional" war. He was received
here with open arms by all who sym
pathized with the South; and he made
them such Il speech here in the Athens
um as only an enemy OF the Govern
ment could make or applaud. He
made similar speeches at many other
points in Western Virginia, in some OF
them openly advising the young men
not to volunteer in the Union army.
His speeches We're so mischievous that
great exertions were required to neu.
tralizs them; but they were neutralized
by patriotic appeals from the stump by
Gov. Peirpoint, Senator Wiley and
others, and by the untiring labors OF
Campbell through the columns of this
journal.
He went to Indiana to assist the Cop
perhead campaign then in progress
there against enlistments. He spoke
in Indianapolis, along with Wickliffe
of Kentucky and Dan VOORHEES,. 1t
was such speech as compelled the re-
porter of the Cincinnati Commercial to
say OF it that Never did ranker treason
fall from the lips of man. Never did
a man so belle the Government that
protected him." and such as drew from
the New York World the declaration
that its author deserved to be sent
within the Confederate lines. During
all the rest of his term in the Senate he |
voted with the copperhRads. as the rec
ords show.
MIR. Carlile's course excited so much
inGiGnatio here that public meetings
were held in great many counties OF
the State at which resolutions were
passed asking him to resign. The same
legislature which elected him passed
declaration that he had betrayed their
confidence and requested him to give