The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-14
a PoLIsICAL LESSON.

uOlu1 Will Do NSEy great surprise
throughout the Slate, especially when
1t iSGnderstood that he was appointed
AZ from West Virginia. The appoint
meut is s. very desirable one, though il
may not so strike every one at first. The
foreign, q appointments have'been appor.
toned among the States, and this is the
best and perhaps the only one allotted tC
West Virginia.
It would be hard TO find a more 1la~
grant act of political injustice than the
bestowal of this place upon Mr.. Car
lille on, the grounds upon which it is
done. It adds another to the numerous
evidences that the public service Is
thankless service. and that there IS
worry little regard among public mon for
Justice or gratitude to those who have
served them. II shows how men get
position and honor without deserving,
and how others who have earned both
are left to find their reward In the bare
conLciousnC 6s that they have deserved
1t.
The Republican people OF West Vlr-
GINA have not forgotten. nor are they
likely to forget, the public conduct of
Mr.. Carlile as n Senator of the United
States, when they were supplicating
Congress for a divorce from their un-
natural connection with Virginia-hOw
he abandoned them and betrayed the
cause he had before professed to have
80 much at heart; and how he used the
position they had given him in an hour
of over. confidence to battle and defeat
all their aspirations. He was the man
who above all others endangered our
application in Congress. He did not
defeat il, only because he could not.
That we arc not an appendaBe OF old
Virginia to. day, we have to thank those
noble Republicans who carried our
Constitution through Congress over
MIR. Carlile's head, just as he now car
ries off the honors of a Republican
triumph, adjudged TO be due West
Virginia, over their beads. Was there
ever a stranger reversal OF all that
men hold to be just or consistent?
When Mr.. C8rlile abandoned and be-
trayed the Republicans of West Vir-
ginia some seven, years ago, he united
himself with their enemies and CO Op.
Grated with them during the remainder
OF his term in the Senate. lie removed
from the State and remained in COM
purative political obscurity till less than
year ago, when II becoming apparent
that Grant was the coming man, Mr..
Carlile wrote letters TO the newspapers
Internationally announcing his adhesion
to Grant, and his purpose to canvass
West Virginia. He removed his family
to CIarksburg and engaged in the can
vass, putting himself in c0mmunica-
ton with the National Republican
Committee, and go far impressing them
With the belief that he was managing
the canvass in this State, that their COM
munications for the State Central Com
miltee were for a time made through
him.
And now this gentleman. who has
had no part or Identification with the
Republican party of the State since
1852, when he abandoned and betrayed
It and removed from the State,-and
who III his last Falls canvass did not
even profess to speak in behalf of RE-
publican principles, but made, just as
he prolessed TO make, speeches tor
Grant from Democratic standpoint
is recognized at Washington as the
leadlng.and representative Repu blican
of the Slate. in whose person the party
that gave West Virginia's five electoral
votes to Grant is 10 be recognized
and rewarded! 1t is astounding but
true. a gentleman who is not even
voter in the State for lack of residence
who ia in short, Il Democratic carpet
Dagger " from Maryland! We use the
phrase in no offensive sense, but sim
ply as the most comprehensive express
sion of the fact. And all this while men
who are not only citizens of the State
but have spent their lives amongst US
who have unqestioned integrity and
capacity, who carried the burdens and
fought The battles of our people when
Mr.. CArlile deserted them-men like
Peirpoint, Campbell, Hubbard and
others we could name, are thrust aside
and neglected, and the party which
they truly represent is ignored and
snubbed.
We do not state these unpulutable
truths out of ANY personal unkindness
towards Mr.. Garlic. We would not
lay straw in the way of his promo
ton or success, except where it wrongs
others and outraRes justice. If
President Grant had chosen to
confer on him any favor upon his
artN IL
dissented; but when he appoints him
as a representative of West Virginia
Republicanism to the exclusion of men
who are such truly, then we respectful
ly protest that any such act for any
such reason is a gross piece OF injustice
and libel on our people.
Just who may be responsible for this
appointment, We do not know. 1t is
impossible that it could have been
made without the foreknowledge of
some or all of our delegation in Con-
gress. 1t is hardly possible it would
have been made If they had unitedly
protested against it. 1t certainly will
not be confirmed il our Senators oppose
1t; and they know as well as any one
the history Of MIR. Carlile's public acts
affecting our people. Between the
President and our Congressional dele
cation the responsibility for this APP
pointment will lie II it is consum-
mated. We shope the delegation will
be able to show they were no par
~ to it. They, if anybody, have
an interest in maintaining the ascend
ency and unity OF the Republican party