The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Senate ON the Admission of West
Virginia n State.


The Senate ON the Admission of west
Virginia IS State.
WAsHMGEoE, July 14s-Ths great event
of the day has been the passage by the Senate
of q bill admitting West Virginia as a new
State under the new Constitution adopted by
the Wheeling Convention, with notifications.
The following embraces all the provisions of
the act:
The State of West Virgins, embracing for
ty-eight counties, the same as heretofore pub
lished, as embraced in the proceedings of the
Convention, is declared one of the United
States, on an equal footing with the original
States in every respect, and until the next CEN
sus, is entitled to three Representatives in the
House. The Constitution is to be SO amended
as to provide that all children born of slaves
after July 4th, 1863, shall be free, and that all
slaves within the limits of said State, and who
shall at that time be under IL years of age
shall be free at II, and all slaves over 10 and
under Il, shall be free on reaching the age of
70, whenever the people of West Virginia
shall, By their Convention aforesaid, and by a
vote to be taken at an election to be held
within the limits of said State, at such time as
the Convention may provide, make and ratify
the above change in the Constitution; the
President shall issue proclamation, and the
act of admission take effect sixty days thereaf-
ter. 4z
The debate on this important measure oc-
cupled all day, and was extremely interesting
The feature was the abandonment of Sena-
tor Garlic of his former active advocacy of
the measure, and his suddenly turning all his
energies toward its defeat. This remarkable
course has amazed all, and disguised most of
the friends of Western Virginia. Carlile's
colleague, Wiley, declared in the Senate that
he (Carlle) had misrepresented thre6quarters
OF the loyal people of Western Virginia on
that floor, as well as the Legislature and Con.
vention. For many long years that people
had been laboring and hoping for separation
from Eastern Virginia, to which it had been
virtually in bondage for half a century. This
grew out of the profoundest social, natural and
commercial differences end antagonisms and
| secession had but brought all these out in
| thousand fold relief
MIR. Trumbull made a strong speech against
immediate admission, on the ground that it
would recognize another slave State, and dam
age the restoration of Eastern Virginia to the
Union. He hoped the effect of the Confsca-
ton bill would be to enfranchise.a majority of
the slaves in the States, and now was no time
for endorsing the Institution. Mr.. Wade
made most powerful reply, which clinched
the passage of the bill. He said the people of
Western Virginia had been urging it upon
Congress almost en- masse. There was now a
chance to repair some of the damages of
| secession, and why not embrace it. He de-
Tended the Constitution as virtually anti.
slavery.
No man had urged separation stronger .han
Garlic. He was the very man who had drawn
up the original bill and had labored to find
precedents for it, and had said over and over
that there were no constitutional or legal Oh
jections to admission. Now by a conversion
stronger and more sudden than st. Pauls, the
bill has to encounter this violent and deter
mined opposition. There was no reason on
Gods earth why, if Western Virginia was ever
to be admitted, she should not be admitted
now. When, we were losing State after State
| that were making war upon the Union, were
We to refuse the first to come in 2
The following straightout Republicans voted
with Garlic against admission; King, Chan
dler, Howard, Sumner and Trumbull.
Both Ohio Senators voted aye
The bill will undoubtedly pass the House to-
morrow.
It is due to Garlic to say that he placed the
ground of his summerset wholly upon the allie
cation that under the act Western Virginia
could be admitted no earlier as State than
without. They could hold a new convention
and adopt another constitution of their own
between now and December. He saw no good
resulting from the bill that was not oveI bal
anced by admission by Congressional dictation
| as to the terms of the constitution to be adopt
ed BY sovereign State at SIGMA.
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