The southern press., 1851-04-09


what it will, it cannot effect the denouement of
the great drama, in which the Southern States,
thus far, have been made to play so insignificant
and suicidal part. I.
A Friend to the Administration.
We find the following curious editorial no.
tice in the Republic of yesterday:
"SENAToR WADE.-The Ravenna (Ohio)
Wing Of the I'd instant, has been gratifed with
a brief conversation with Judge Wade, the new
Ohio Senator, and in an article on the subject
says:
"Those who have harbored the idea that Mr.
Wade has alienated himself from the Wing
party or abandoned its principles, may as well
undeceive themselves first as last. He has never
yet concealed his attachment to the Wing
party, and those Free-soil presses which pert:na-
ciously assert that he has abandoned that party,
in the face of all the evidence to the contrary,
are engaged in business of Misrepresentation,
which lily COMFORTS with their Wanted regard
for the teachings of conscience. 1t would be
well if their consciences would permit them on
this occasion to give heed to the command
ment-' thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor."
"Senator Wade is a plain, frank, outspoken
man. He possesses the virtue of candor in an
eminent degree, never seeking to conceal or dis
guise his real sentiments, and never evading
proper inquiries. He will act with the Wing
party, and advocate old-fashioned Wing princi-
pies in the Senate, rs he has elsewhere. Those
who entertain the idea that he will studiously
seek to embarrass the Administration or indulge
in a spirit Of factious opposition, will wake up
one of these days to find out their mistake"
Now the Republic knows, or ought to know,
what Judge WADE considers q the principles of
the Wing party" and in the attempt to bolster
up the orthodoxy of the new Senator, does
grievous injustice to the intelligence of its read
ers We do not doubt that he is equally as reli-
able as Senator FISH, the particular personal and
political friend of Mr.. FILLMORE" and of Sena-
tor SEWARD but the inference intended to be
drawn by the endorsement of this statement of
the Ravenna Wing, is evidently based on a sup
pressio peri.
We gave, some time since, report of por-
ton of recent speech from Judge WADE, cop
led from the Ravenna (Ohiol Star, which never
has been tontradicted. As that extract posi-.
bly, escaped the attention of the Editors of the
Republic, we again append it for their especial
benefit and behoof, hoping they may adopt the
spirit of the commandment "not to bear false
witness against their neighbour" so as to give
Judge WADE the benefit of his own bold avow-
ais. AS the Wing says, "Senator WADE is plain
frank, out-spoken man." and this is the way he
proposes "to act ,Oith the Wing party" The
Star, abiding to his speech on the Fugitive
slare lao says:
Judge Wade fairly electrified the audience
by the earnestness and energy with which he
denounced the Fugitive law, and all who bore
part in infcting it upon us. lie said he
had always been Wing, was still Wing, but
here were considerations which arose far above
party and party influences, and he for one pds
prepared t6unite 10Th any men, or any party, in
opposiiion 10 this lalo. He condemned 10 strong
est terms, Wings and Democrats who aided in
the passage Of the law by their votes, or by
lodging; rebuked Nth energy and spirit FIJI
more and Crittenden, and risiied Daniel Webster
Nth the most ,Oiihering and biting sarcastic de-
nunciation. He said the law, bristling like a
porcupine with the pains and penalties, was the
most infamous enactment known to the statute
BIO 0ks of this country, and such as even the cor
rupt governments Of the old world could not
pass without driving their people to revolution.
For himself regardless of fines and imprison-
ments, if called upon, he would grant to
fugitive slave the writ Of habeds corpus I; nay,
more, would give him his liberty under il. He
would not counsel the people to forced and
armed resistance against the execution Of the
law, but he would say, that in his Judgment
should they initiate tho examrlo sot by the old
fathers in regard to the Stamp Act and the Tea
Act, they ,Oould not err much"
The Toledo (Ohio) Republican, gives the fol-
lowing additional information, which the Repub-
lie can also re-publish
SENATOR WADE CURSED THE DAY WHEN
WILLARD FILLMORE WAS BoRS.-The editor Of
the Geauga Free Democrat has recently had fire.
quent interviews with Senator Wade, and thus
defines the views of the newly elected senator
on the peace measures and their great champion,
Willard Fillmore.
He denounces the "peace measures" the Ad-
and all connected with it. We have
heard him curse the day that Millafd Fillmore
was born, declaring that he was a disgrace to
any country and any nation. Can you stomach
such opposition! WADE will give the Wing
party jessie, or we have mistaken the man. The
Wing partizans and Wing presses begin to feel
and realize ii too"
Now the sbabbiest part Of this dodge Of the
Republic is, that the same paper (yesterday's)
contains in one column denunciaton Of RAN
roUL Democrat0 for taking the same course as
WADE, (Whig,) for whom it puts up this plea in
extenuation.
Georgia and Alabama.