The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-11

MARTINS BURG, Berkeley county,
January Sth, 1869.
Editors IntelLi9cnccr:
Who shall be our next Senator ?-is a
question much mooted. The Third
Conversational district, claiming to have
been ignored in the distribution or the
great State offices, is insisting upon Its
right TO the Senator, TO succeed Mr.. Van
Observation-Disclosures that the other two
districts, from the organization OF the
State, in addition to both Governors
have also furnished both Senators.
There is a seeming fairness in this
demand, to which, however, we can
only subscribe with 9uallhcatlon
and that is, that they shall present us a
candidate equally competent, reliable,
and as thoroughly Unidentified with the
history OF the state and its institutions,
as the opposing candidates from the
other two districts.
In other words, we are prepared to
admit, for candor compels the admls.
sion, all other things being equal, that
the Third district is now equitably
entitled to the Senator.
Governor Foreman, Hon. G. d. Hub
bard and A. W. Campbell, Esq, of the
First, and Governor Peirpoint, OF the
Second District, are understood TO be
candidates. They are all gentlemen OF
ability, whose names are favoraOly
IL
connected with the history OF the State;
and that they have a fixed and Perma'
nent attachment to our institutions,
and to the diversified interests OF the
State, no one can entertain doubt.
From the Third District the names Of
Judge POlsley and General Powell, are
presented to us as candidates. The name
of the former is familiar to the people OF
the entire State. In the memorable
wheeling Convention of May, 1861, as
we'll rs in the June Convention, he as
sumed prominent part, and his ca
pacity and services were SO highly APP
precinted by the patriotic and distin-
guished members of that Convention
that they unanimously elected him
Lieut., Governor of the restored govern
ment of Virginia, which position he
filled with honor to himself
and usefulness to the public until the
new State Government went into oper-
alton. He was then elected Judge or
the Seventh Judicial Circuit, and re-
NAMED on the Bench until he was elect
ed to a seat in the 40th Congress. To
the people OF his circuit, while on the
Bench, he gave general satisfaction,
and was recognized throughout the
State as a sound and able JuriSt. AND
we have reason to believe, from his lib
eral and enlarged views as Statesman,
and from his experience, both as a
iurist and legislator, the stability OF his
principles, and his zeal and earnestness
in the development of all the vast re-
sources of the State, that he is not in
ferior to any of his distinguished conn
petitors.
known, in this, the eastern end of the
State. AS an officer, in the late war,
his reputation is believed to be good,
and he is also reputed to ba gentle
man of respectable abilities. Having
however no experience as Legls-
lator, and never having been
in public life, if we accept HIM as the
representative of the State in the U. s.
Senate, we must take him on trust. II
we are correctly informed, he only re-
moved from the State OF Ohio into our
State within the last year-rather II
short time TO entitle him to precedence
over experienced and we'll tried states
men, through the ordeal OF the last
eight years.
All honor is due him as a gallant and
brave soldier, but West Virginia can
proudly boast OF thousand citizens,
soldiers and officers equally brave,
gallant and patriotic as he, who are
content to bide their time. All other
things being equal, therefore, -legisla..
tive cx perience, CapaDIlity, honesty ana
lifelong identification with the sympa'
thies. interests and feelings of our peo-
ple,-We should cheerfully accord the
preference to him, who to all these
qualifications possesses the additional
merit of gallantry acquired in the field
of glory.
We cannot close this communication
| in justice to Judge Polsley without ad
ding, that although he was not, himself
a soldier in the lield,-his age forbade
1.-THE gave tothe service two sons one OF
whom, after serving gallantly through
out the war, fell a victim to II fatal dis
ease, contracted in the service of his
country, while he was yet in the prime
and vigor OF early manhood.
In conclusion allow us to say, that
we have such confidence in the lnteili'
gence and patriotism ofthe members o
the Legislature, as to warrant the hope
and belief that capacity, honesty anG
falthfulnes5 to our constitution and
laws, and not individual or persona
considerations, or inVailabiliiy vii
be made the test. BERKELEY.