The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-20
',sach comprehensive action Of Congress

February, 1865, the right OF ulslrahcui'
sing those who had given aid to the re
bellion, was as emphatically and as
unqualifedly laid down and advocated
by Mr.. LAMB, as by any radical whom lie
now repudiates:" We quote the IAN
guage OF the Iatlligencer. Now, Mr. L"
has frankly admitted that he was al Inc
time in favor of excluding certain
class of rebels from the State. on the
principle of self-preservation, and 80 far
as that principle would justify it. The
extracts from Mr. LIS speeches against
the test oath, which have been SO often
paraded before the readers of the Inteih-
aenoer, prove nothing beyond the admls'
sion, if we except single one from
which a material word has been dropped
by the reporter or the speaker ana
which as it has been published, is NEON
sistent with other portions of the same
speech, and with Mr.. IS whole course
npon the subject But even with this
extract, taking the whole of them to-
gether, they do not show that he was
then the, advocate OF an unqualified OF
indiscriminate disfranchisemeni and 1T
is certain that he neither advocated nor
approved the Constitutional Amend
ment, for he voted openly and publicly
against it in every shape which it as
sumed, and in every vote that was taken
on the subject in the House of'vhich he
was member
The last charge is that Nj l. was
himself the author ana originator Of the
constitutional amendment, This was
asserted in the most positive manner
The language of the IntelNgencer was,
that the amendment is itself the work
of Mr.. LANES own hand He us its au-
thor" And it was said b5 the Editor in
his paper, thai Mr.. l. arraigns those
who, at the late session of the Legisla,
ture, ratified the act which he originated
only a gear before"
Such was this charge The public
were surprised, for they could not con-
ceive that what was so positively and
the matter has been investigated, and
it turus ont, las we wish to be polite we
will say very differently from what
was asserted.
So far as If has been traced. the pa
| tcrnity OF this measure belongs to Mr..
FARNswORTII. unless there is something
i'll the MtclEgencG Of January DC, 1865,
to enable US to 90 still further back, and
show that the gentleman stole the bad
idea from somebody else. Of course, W.
use the word stole ia its pick1gicfiaH sense
The measure, at all events, was intro
duced in the Senate on the 26tt Of Jan
uary, aud had been pending there three
weeks. lacking Que day, before Mr. L
| had any thing TO do with it lie ther
showed some member, probably Mr.
MAXWELL, Of the Senate, how it might
be improved in style. or at least abbrevi
atcd. The loose scrap CT paper upon
which MI l.. wrote copy OF the Tesolu
lion ~ IFS ,,oe,d.d f,~,r, for ar N .,
his request. has been carefuijv laid b-
TO prove. ut tie proper time. that Sir. /
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