The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-26

IAlF. EaGlllO wasborn III Winchester va,
on the 18th day Feb. 1917, and conse-
quently was in his 69d year at the time of
his DEATH Hswas educated by his moth
or until II years OF age, and then went in
to q country store as salesman and clerk,
and at theageotrT commenced business
for himself. At the same time he read
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1910,
and in 1872 settled in Beverly, Randolph
county, to practice, removing from there to
Phillip, and from there again to Clarks-
burg, where he made his home ever nj
terward except short timo after the war
that he spent in Maryland.
In ls47 he was elected to the State SEN
ate of Virginia, serving in that body until
1851. In 1850 he was elected to the Vir-
ginia Constitutional Convention, and in
1855 TO seat in Congress on the American
or Know Nothing ticket, where he served
one term. III 1851 he was elected to the
Virginia Secession Convention, his col.
league being Col. Wilson. In that body
he became, with the exception OF George
W. Summers, the most prominent man
from WestTa., and he far outshone SUM
.mers ut the last in the quality ofhis Union
ism. 50 prominent did he become as the
Union leader that on leaving the Conven.
tion, after the passage OF the Ordinance OF
Secession, he was received with open arms
.by Mr.. Lincolu's administration, and for
a long time was its most prominent and
influential adviser in all matters relating to
West Virginia.
FromlS6l to 1868 was the zenith OF Mr..
Carliles fame and influence. lie was
elected to Congress in May, 1861, and in
few months thereafter TO the United
States Senate. Previous to this he took
very active part in organizing the Union
element in West Virginia into govern:
mental form, and at one time advocated a
very abrupt movement in order to secure
a new State. He was member of the
Convention that in August 1861, submit
ted the new State ordinance. He was the
author Of the first name anawha" =
adopted for the State, and was in the fore
front of the contest until the question OF
admission came before the United States
Senate, and especially before the Commit
tee on Territories, OF which he was mem:
Der, when to the great surprise OF every
new state man in West Virginia he be-
came an opponent OF the scheme as itthen
stood, basing his opposition on the ground
that the territory included was not large
enough and should take in the Valley of
Virginia, and attaching such conditions to
his amendment to the bill, in the way OF q
vote of the people OF the counties TO be
added, as would have made a new State
forever possible,
The detection Of aGr. Garlic from the
New State bill was the beginning of the
end of his prestige at Washington and in
West Virginia. He never regained to any
satisfactory degree the confidence OF the
Union people. The State was admitted
over his opposition, and he, partly driven
and partly going Of his own accord, Joined
himself with Cowan. the Republican Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania, rs an ally of the
Democracy, and advocated the election OF
Mcclellan in 1854 against Mr., Lincoln.
-Four years afterwards, with that propen-
sity for change that characterized his
whole public life, he rc-ioined the Repub-
lican party, and advocated the election OF
General Grant, who in recognition Of his
services rs Union man, and especially as
his advocate in the Presidential canvass.
nominated him to the Senate as Minister
to Sweden, but the Senate refused to con-
firm the nomination and the appointment
fell through.
With this failure Mr.. Carlile's public
life may be said to have closed, although
he aways afterward co-operatetl with the
Republican party, and in ISL. took some
part in the canvass for General Grants re-
election His health had begun to break
down about that time, and this fact, to-
rether with his pecuniary misiortunes.
weighed on his spirits and so impaired his
natural buoyancy aud force as to greatly
emlarrass his attempts 10 retrieve his
fortunes in life BY the practice Of his pro-
fession Gradually his disease tdropsy)
caiped upon him. and for wear mast he
has been almos, a helpless invalid, depen-
dent To n large degree upoa the kindness
Of his old friends and neirhbors.
Thus has ended the career Of one OF the
noted men of our State. He was man Of