The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-01
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History Repeating 1tSelf-The Three
London TaIIors again.

Mr.. Carlile, having returned tc
Carksburg on Tuesday, gotta few of hil
personal friends and neighbors to Gethel
the following evening, as appears from a
manifesto printed elsewhere, and pro-
ceeded at a somewhat unnecessar J
length to elucidate their. Cor his) view
of the situation. The INTELL1aENCET
has been specially favored both by no.
tice in the manifesto and with copy
Of it.. The Tribune and Forney's
paper-both daily-are also to have
original copies; and when they come TO
hand won't there be a sensation at
Washington and New York;
How large this meeting was does not
appear. We presume the half dozen
gentlemen whose names are mention
ed were there. Perhaps there were 9TH
ers: perhaps not, for we know pretty
we'll how such things are managed.
Gen. Northcott who was chief fugle-
man, Secretary of the meeting, Chair
man of the Committee on Manifesto,
&C., has been a sort of lieutenant
for Mr.. Carlile ever since th at
gentleman brought him to Clarksburg
shortly after the outbreak of the war.
We find no fault with the fact, for graf
itude is virtue that is somewhat rare
now .a-days and one that needs to be
cultivated. All who remember Mr..
Northcott's political vagaries while he
and Carlile were connected in business,
remember that they corresponded very
closely with Mr.. Carlile's. Mr.. .Northcott
resisted the adoption of the State Con-
stitution when submitted to the people;
and again in 1866 he opposed the
amendment to 1t till he got so far OUT
side of his party that he ostensibly
withdrew from his paper for time that
1t might advocate the amendment.
Even while in the army he came near
following Carlile off at a tangent upon
the issuing OF the emancipation proc.
lamation. The fact, is, in brief, that
the Union people out there have al
ways had great trouble in keeping him
In harness, and that fact may help ac-
count for their lukewarmness in sup
porting his paper. To those who know
how bitterly Gen. Northcott was oppos-
ed so Mr.. Boreman's election, it would
seem rather odd (did they not at the
same time know his characteristics
to find him now praising that
gentlemen for supporting Carlile.
It Is like mixing oil and water.
All who are acquainted with General
Northcott's tortuous course know that
he is nothing if not a cheap intriguer,
who has not skill enough to hide the
chips which he makes In his clumsy
work. We don't desire ever to say
anything needlessly severe of any
one, but it seems necessary to mention
these things to show just how much
value attaches to this manifesto. We
are sorry to find Mr.. Gotf's name there
as presiding officer; but he is too good
natured an old gentleman to refuse a
favor to any one much less neighbor
Having endorsed Mr.. Carlile before
hand, however, his opinion now is not
a very valuable contribution to public
on this question.
We have not space to go through
these resolutions and exhibit their ridi-
in detail. Some of those
touching Mr.. Carlile and his faithful
ness are enough to make horse laugh,
II the animal knew anything about
that northumberland. One of the
most refreshing things in it is, the
assumption that these half dozen gen.
tlemen are the Republican party of the
State, and the resolve thatth newspa-
pers misrepresent them. 1t reminds one
of the proclamation issued by the three
London tailors beginning, 1--WE, the
people of England" or that other no
less removed manifesto of the ancient
Puritans:
ResoLUed, That the earth is the
ple's.
people,"
When the President learns that his
course is appreciated by this Injecting"
it will make Ulysses feel mighty happy,
but when he comes to the resolve about
the Brazilian mission-how unhappy
he will be. seeing that he has gone and
appointed one Henry T. Blow, of Mis-
SCUM
or course Mr.. Carlne didn't have any
thing to do with these resolutions; but
II not, how did the Injecting" know
that Mr.. Wiley as we'll as Mr.. Bore
man "sustained him and advocated his
confirmation"
1t is a great relief to read that the
meeting" adjourned "Site die" be-
cause II it had constituted itself con-
tinuous body who can predict the far
reaching and direful conseque nces2
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