WADE UNMASKS CARLILE.

Chairman Wade explained how the committee had been imposed upon by Mr. Carlile in his character of pretended friend of the New State, and how zealous he had been in the earlier stages in its behalf. Said Senator Wade:

That there is to be a separation is a foregone conclusion, and no man has urged it upon the committee more strongly than the Senator who now opposes immediate action. He, of all men in the committee, is the man who penned all these bills and drew them up. He is the man who has investigated all the precedents to see how far you could go in this direction. It was to his lucid mind we were indebted for the fact that there were no legal or constitutional barriers in the way of this proposition. He submitted to the labor; he did it cheerfully; he did it backed by the best men of his State and section-and what did they say? They said "We cannot live any longer with Eastern Virginia. Independent of the great controversy that has sprung up in the Nation, we have a controversy of old standing that renders our connection with old Virginia absolutely impossible." He is the gentleman who impressed their opinions upon the committee as strongly as anybody else; and what change has come over the spirit of his dream I know not. His conversion is greater than that of St. Paul. He has persuaded us that the measure is right; he has appeared side by side with his able Governor who urged this upon us as a measure vital to the interests of the State he represents. All at once, after persuading us to bring the question before Congress, and when we expected his powerful aid to help push it through, we are brought up standing by his powerful opposition.

PASSED BY THE SENATE.

The Senate voted down Mr. Trumbull's motion to postpone, and passed the bill by a vote of 23 to 17.

POSTPONED IN THE HOUSE.

In the House of Representatives two days later the Senate bill for the admission of West Virginia came up and was read the first and second time, when Mr. Segar, a Virginia member from the Fortress Monroe district, objected to its third reading. He moved to lay on the table, but the House refused by 70 to 42. Roscoe Conkling moved the postponement of the bill to the second Tuesday in December, and it was agreed to by a vote of 63 to 52.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE LEGISLATURE REPUDIATES SENATOR CARLILE.

December 9, 1862, the General Assembly of Virginia, at Wheeling, passed a joint resolution reciting "that feeling the greatest anxiety and interest in the successful issue of the movement for a new State in Western Virginia, we earnestly request the House of Representatives of the United States to take up and pass without alteration or amendment the bill which passed the Senate of the United States on the 14th of July last" for the admission of West Virginia as a State into the Union. This resolution was telegraphed the same evening.

Three days later, the Assembly adopted a joint resolution reciting that they had by resolution at the session in July, 1862, "instructed the Senators of this State in Congress to sustain the Federal government in its efforts to maintain the supremacy of the laws and preserve the integrity of the Union, and by a legislative act of the 13th of May, 1862, requested them to use their endeavors to obtain the consent of Congress to the admission of West Virginia into the Union," and Senator Carlile having "failed to sustain the legitimate efforts of the Federal government to suppress the insurrection and having opposed by his votes in the Senate measures absolutely necessary to the preservation of the Union and the enforcement

of the laws, and having also by his speeches and votes in the Senate opposed the bill for the admission of West Virginia into the Union," it was resolved that he be "respectfully requested to resign his seat." These resolutions the Governor was requested to forward to the senators and representatives in Congress with request to present the same in each House.

BURNS HIS BRIDGES.

This was the same legislature which had chosen Mr. Carlile the year before with complete unanimity. Their request for his resignation showed how entirely he had abandoned the attitude of loyalist and champion of a new State, which had won him the distinction of an unopposed election. He did not resign-a fact which showed still more plainly that he had burned the bridges between himself and the people of West Virginia.

CHAPTER XIX.

WEST VIRGINIA RUNS THE GAUNTLET OF THE

HOUSE.

CONWAY, OF KANSAS, DELIVERS FIRST BLOW.

December 9th, 1862, the Senate bill for the admission of West Virginia was taken up as the order of the day in the House of Representatives. Hon. John A. Bingham, of Ohio, had charge of the bill and allotted the time for debate. The discussion ran through part of two days, but we will deal with it as if continuous.

Mr. Conway, of Kansas, was first to take the floor. He did not recognize the proposed division of Virginia as having received the assent of the Legislature which the Constitution requires. He referred to the reorganized State government as "a spontaneous production of the soil. A number of individuals met at Wheeling and, without any legal authority whatever, arranged a plan for a government." True, the President and the Senate had recognized this as the actual State of Virginia, but this was "of no binding force" on the House. He stated the argument in favor of the validity of this government as being: "that the original State of Virginia fell into treason and became only a void and caused a vacuum which could only