Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-01
70 me sIembsrs OF the U. 5. Hou.e o
Representative.


On the 10th day of last July, one day
previous TO your adjournment. SenAte bill
No. 1885, admitting West Virginia as State |
into the Union, which had passed that |
body on the l4th, inst, by vote of 90 TO
II, was on the motion of Roscoe
ConEiiog. ofNew York. postponed for fur
ther consideration until Tuesday the 9th |
Of December, by 5 vote of 60 to 50.
The disposition Of your honorable body
70 do justice TO the people of West Viz
eioia cannot be doubted, for while you Yo-
ted dseisiEeiy 10 postpone the Senate bill
uatit the present session, taking all the
hazzardl Of the course of events in the
meantime, yet you voted down
previous motion made by M Sc
gar, of Virginia, 10 lay the bill CD the
table. by the stil more decisive ballot Ct
30 TO ~. Thus showing that your OBJ
ject vas not TO kin the bill. but TO secure
for yourselves thai time for co6siaeration
AndinVsstigatioa, which ils great import
sDee demanded. s9s
The bill, As Postponed. WI come before
yoa on Tuesday next. 1t is made the
special basiness for that dsy. And in or
der 20 fnrnishresdy 10 the hand Of each OF
you cOmprehehsiTe glance at It's merits,
Ne have t0-diy reproduced in our cOlSmns
not only The bill which passed the Senate,
but also the bill which did not pass. The
bill which pessed the Senate We have des-
iguated as the aWfIIey BILL" for BY that
name 1t is famiIIarly known to our people.
The bill which did NOT rAsr. We have for
thetsame reason, designated as the CarIile
bill. ThefOrmer was drawn by Mr.. Wiley,
in conformity with suggestions made in
and out Of the Senate, and the latter was
drawn by Mr.. Catiile, as a member of the
Se3a,e Territorial Committee, and by the
Chairman of that Committee (Ar. Wade
reported to the Senate. ~ ~ ~
You will perceive on comparing the
fSGnate) bill Of Mr. Wiley, with the con-
stitution that was framed by the Convention
thar met in this city on the 2Gth of SoIem-
Der, 1861, that it makes no alteration of
any part of that consultation, save in the
seventh section of article eleventh, in place
OF which section the following amendment
Easinserted by AR. Wiley. in accordance
with the suggestions referred to, viz:
'tThe children of SLAVES born within the
limits of this State after the 4th day OF
March, 1868, shall be free, and All slaver
within said State, who shall, At the time
Aforesaid, be under the age Of ten years.
shall be free when they arrive at the age of
twenty. i've years, aud no slave shall be
permittedtO eomeiuto this State for per-
mAnent residence therein"
This amendment was the only alteration
made by the Senate in the constitution of
ths proposed State. The debates in the
Convention on the subject Of emancipation,
as well as the subsequent Informal vote OF
the people at the polls, taken Of their own
noticp. indispptabIy show that the recital
of the Senate bill is correct, when it says,
predatory to the amendment of the seyentb
section, that il has been represented to
Congress that since tae Convention of the
2eth Of November, 1861, that framed and
proposed the constitution for the said State
ofWsstern Virginia, the people thereof
have expressed wish 70 change the sew
enfh section of article eleventh of said
constitution" Further proof Of the cor
rsctuess Of this, recital will be fopnd in the
numberless petitions from the people of
Western vrgtpiA which will be presented
10 your honorable body by our three
members, at the proper time, praying that
Abe Senate bill may be once passed and the
State admitted into the Union. And still
further proof ofIts correctness will be found
In the digest which We have published on
the first page of this paper. That digest
will SHOW 70 you how universally. and IN
sdignaltlY the course Of Nj. Garlic, in
making factous opposition TO the Senate
sbilf,s has been reprobatsd and repudiated
throughout the length aud breadth OF the
New State. 'si. 10 ssa=a q
s,gAns effort will, d9pbless be made by
Nj. Garlic with the ms@beFs Of the House,
10 induce them 10 adopt the report of the
senate Territorial Co nmittee, drawn by
himseit, The effect Of which will be 10 send
IthsSEhoIS question back 70 the Senate;and
ultimately to procure It's death. In antiei;
patton OF some such effort st6is, We have
to-day published Mr.. oatliIe's bill, and we
ask from the members of the House their
attention to the following facts connected
with 1t. - ~ -
Since your adjournment, on the stump
and ia paper at olarksbutg, which he
controls and edits, Mr.. Garlic has been
endeayoriug 70 prejudice The people against
the bill of his colleague, Mr.. VALLEY, on the
sgrSuad, is he terms it. of Congressional
liietationi fnsregard to- section seventh Of
article eleventh i, as quoted above, To show
yonlhow utterly insincere this Pretense1O on
the part OF Mr.. o. is, We ask your careful
examination of the two bills, as drawn by