The southern press., 1851-04-08


thus far, have been made to play so insignificant
and suicidal part
A Friend to the Administration.
We find the following curious editorial no.
tice in the Republic of yesterday:
"SENAToR WADE-The Ravenna (Obio)
Wing Of lhe I'd instant, has been gratifed wit,
a brief conversation with Judge Wade, the new
Ohio Senator, and in an article on the subject
says:
"Those who have harbored the iiea 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-so 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 comports with their vaunted regard
for the teachings Of conscience. II would be
well if their conscences 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 plain, frank, out-spoken
man. He possesses the virtue Of candor in an
eminent degree, never seeking to conceal or dis
gnise his real sentiments, and never evading
proper inquiries. He will act with the Wing
party, and advocate old-fashioned Wing prnci-
Piles in the Senate, as he has elsewhere Those
who entertain the idea that he will studously
seek to embarrass the Administration or indulge
in spirit Of fac'ious 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 I" 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 er.ona and
tor SEWARD but the inference intended to be
drawn by the endorsement Of this statement of
the Ravenna Wing, is evidently based on sup
pressio reri.
We gave, some time since, report of por-
ton Of a recent speech from Judge WADE, cop
led from the Ravenna (Ohio) Star, which nerer
has been contradicted. 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 neighbor," 30 MS 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 ,ch the Wing party" The
Star, alludng to his speech on the Fugitire
STARE lane says
"Judgc Wade fairly electrified the audience
by the earnestness and energy with when he
denounced the Fugitive law, and all who bore
part in inhctng it upon US. He said he
had always been Wing, was still Whig but
here were considerations which arose far above
party and party influences, and he for one tcas
prepared 10 unite iouh any men, or any party, in
opposition TO This ldao He condemned in strong
est terms, Wings and Democrats who aided in
the passage Of the law by their votes, or by
dodging; rebuked ,oih energy and spirit FIJI
more and Criuenden, and pisiied Daniel Webster
,oih The most 'ciihering and biting sarcastic de-
nunciation He said the law, bristling like n
porcupine with the pains and penalties, was the
most Infamous enactment known to the statute
bo ks 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 q
fugitive slave the writ of habeas corpus; ; nay,
more, would give him his liberty under it, He
would not counsel the people to forced and
armed resistance against the execution Of the
law, but he would slv, that in his judgment,
should they initiate the example set by the old
fathers in regard to the Stamp Act and the Tea
Act, they uould mol err much"
The Toledo (Ohio) Republican, gives the fol-
lowing additional information, which the Repub-
lie c,n also re-publis1:
SENATOR WADE CURSED THE DAY WHEN
MILLIARp FILLMORE WAS BoRS.-1he editor Of
the Geauca Free Democrat has recently had fre
Quent interviews with Senator Wade, and thus
defines the views of the newly elected senator,
on the peace measures and their great champion.
Mliard Fillmore.
He denounces the "peace measures" the Ad-
mini stration, and all connected with it. We have
heard him curse the day that Milla'd 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 it too"
Now the shabbest part Of this dodge Of the
Republic is, that the same paper yesterdays
contains in one column, denunciation of RAN
roUL (Democrat) for taking the same course as
WADE, (Whig) for whom it puts up this plea in
exienuation.
Georgia and Alabama
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