The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-19
W. have probably said about all thai


we should say in regard TO Mr.. Lambs
late address to the people of this State.
Possibly. some may consider that We
have ALREADY spent more attention ON
it than it's importance warranted. We
had no intention, and We certainly have
no desire, TO carry on an indefinite dis
cussion with the author upon points
not embraced in the address, and in no
manner germane TO it Mr.. Lamb, we
are somewhat surprised TO find, seems
inclined to forego the main question,
and to busy himself by way of diyersion
or retreat. with citations from articles
that have appeared one time and other
duriug tile last five years in our columns
mon the Kew State and the Slavery
questions. Heeven goes so far out Of his
his waylwe judge it is him. 70 ask US
hovy We ,.ln consistently speak we'll OF
senator wiIley's late letter to the Union
people OF AIonongaIia county, since IN
other days and upon other topics we
have found fault with the Senator. In
this way, and by such side issues as
these. Afr. Lamb seems DESTROYS TO dis
sipato public attention over such an
area of controversy as will subordinate,
IL not wholly conceal, tine contradictory
position which he occupies in this can
yass in regard to ut least one very PROM
inent feature Of his Address,
We do not propose 70 go over all the
ground indicated in these side issues.
No one knows better than Mr.. Lamb
that the course of this journal, in all
the respects named. has been as thor
oughIy and uniformly consistent As
that OF any journal, or of any public
participant, in the country. upon any
and all Of the great questions that arose
and were disposed ofin connection with
the grand struggle of the last five years.
No ono knows better than he how
much in advance OF public expression
we began the agitation of the New State
issue, and how persistenily We main
tanned II, at every proper juncture, I'M
til success crowned the agitation. Nc
one knows better than Mr.. Lamb how
early we started in on the slavery ques-
lion, and that never for a moment did
we abate any proper expression of hos
tiIity 70 the Institution. Not line can
be quoted from our columns that does
not harmonic with the steady progress
that was making all the time towards
its overthrow. We are sure that Mr.
Lamb at least always regarded us rs
proceeding ON both questions full faster
than he was willing TO proceed. And
vhile we recognized uat his footsteps
were often SLOW, and sometimes reluc,
tapt. vet we never failed in like man
ner TO recognize that there was neces'
SHY 10 await the important adherence
ofsucEi men as himself in order that
the vital unity of tho great party of the
war and the country might be preserved
in our midst. With all due respect
toward our friend, We conceive the
difference between him and us to have
been that our natural tendency through
out the struggle WINS centripetal in its
character, that is toward the magnetic
impulse OF the war, the anti-slayery
feeling of the country, while his preju-
dices had to be overcome aIida certain
amount of centrifugalism neutrnliEed-
The very fact OF Mr. Lambs position
at this time, Standing as he does in full
fellowship with those who opposed all
his nominal affiliations during the
war. show, rs We submit, that his
status was never deeply rooted and
grounded during all that time, but WAS
uncertain and unsettled. We can only
hope that he will feel his new position
among those to whom he has gone, no
less uncongenial, and that ere long he
will realize that his going among them
Involved graver consequences than sim
ply a choice between two evils.