The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-24

MONDAY, MARCH "a, 1851.
1As New Ohio Senator.
Ths Nalsoasl Laielligsnesr gave the following
account u the Senator elect from Ohio:
TIE NEw OHlo SEsAroR.-The Ohio State
Journal-good Wing authority---iu its issue Of
Saturday last, states that Judge Wade il an
Original Taylor man, and is Wing of long
standing and arstrats abilities"
The Washington Union of yesterday has the
following:
WING SENATORS FROM New Yoax AND Ono
The Wing papers are striving TO prove that
the senators Of the United States respectively
elected FROM these States ara genuine Wings,
and not In the least degree addicted to the sins
Of abolition. We hope this il true; but we
confess we arc among the doubters. Wade and
Fish, we fear, are both given to political angling
Seward and Hale are excellent baiters for such
gudgeons!
These are the metropolitan organs of the two
national parties, and profess to be equally de-
voted 70 the North and the South, and are re-
sponsibls for the information they give to both.
The following is from the Louisville Journal,
Southern Wing paper:
u. 8. SENATOR FROM OHIo-The legislature
OF Ohio succeeded in electing U. 8. Senator
on Saturday afternoon. Benjamin f. Wade, a
Wing, Of Ashtabula county, received forty-fou
OF the eighty-five votes cast, and was declared
elected for six years from the 4th of March.
We congratulate the Wings Of Ohio on this
result. The Legislature has been balloting for
long while without success, 80 long indeed
that no one expected that any senator could be
elected by the present legislature. We hope
Mr. Wade may prove himself equal to all the
duties of the office and able to sustain the repu-
tation of his State as Corwin and Ewing have
sustained it.
Now we have already given some notices of
the opinions Of Judge WADE. We subjoin a
short biographical sketch from the Cleveland
True Democrat, paper published in Judge
WADR's neighborhood, and favorable to his
election.
From the Cleveland (Ohio) Democrat.
We cannot but renew our congratulations
that B. r. Wade is elected United States SEN
ator Not that he was our choice; we should
have preferred Free-soiler distinctly as such
but because, apart from this, we know of no
man whose opinions more nearly coincide with
those Of our friends.
B. F. Wade is in his fifty-first year. He was
born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, Oct.
9th, 1900.
He removed, with his brother, Edward Wade,
to Ohio, in October, 1891, and settled in And
over, Ashtabula county Neither had the ad.
vantages Of education. They were both unedu-
a crazy priest, who had treatise on algebra,
ba do
termined to study. But the senator, that now
is, laughed at him, saying, with the other boys,
she could never get the hang of these things"
He persevered, learned the black arts by himself,
and taught them to his brother. Edward Wade
was at this time teaching school, boarding round,
receiving twelve dollars a month as his pay, and
taking it out in choppng
In the fall of 1913, Judge Wade went to New
York and taught school there for two years, or
until the spring of 1925, when he returned to
Ohio Edward at that time was at Garfield,
studying law, with Elisha Whittlesey The
brothers were strongly attached to each other,
and had hardly been separated at all before this
period So the Judge vent to Garfield, taught
school there, and studied law with Edward, until
he was admitted to the bar, at Jefferson, Ashta-
bula, in 1928.
The spring of that year he formed co-part-
nership with Joshua R. Giddings, which con-
tinued till 1887.
In the fall of TINT year he was elected to the
Ohio senate His course was marked by de-
cision and energy He made a strong speech,
and stronger report, against Texas annexation,
and was regarded as one of the boldest anti
slavery men of that day.
He was re-nominated by the Wings for the
succeeding term. But the Silver Grays of that
day, defeated him by the cry of abolition.
Judge Bissel was elected over him, from Ashta-
bnla and Geauga,
In I841, he was candidate for the Senate
and succeeded 1t was at this term, that he
battled so bravely against the Black Laws.
His speech was strong one, and told upon the
State.
Judge Wade, at this period, quit the political
field, and devoted himself to his profession, un-
til he was elected Judge Of the Third Circuit,
some three years ago.
We have, then, in our newly elected Senator,
a true North man; one who knows what it is
to be free, and who will not yield the hundredth
part of an inch, where freedom is at stake. Nor
will he parley with power, or party, or fashion.
He will speak right out. He will do that, let
President and Secretary of State or Cass, and
the Democracy, truckle, and whine and beg. Ell
tueT Ot tUcII pOHtCdi Hicius, VI pouti. iAc
will meet Southern Senators, and spare them
not, nor their institution, when, with insolent
recklessness they seek to PROSTATE the interests
or stihe the voice of freemcn, or to upbuild sa-
very, North.
And another cause of rejoicing, deep and
sincere cause, as we view it, is the fact that Judge
Wade will stand by land reform in the noblest
spirit of its noblest advocates 1t is to him, we
believe, life giving system. He sees in it pro-
lection and hope for the landless, and safety
and greater success for the landowner. He
knows what it is to live amid hardship. The
sweat Of the brow is no unmcaning phrase with
him. He has felt it amid hardest pioneer strug-
gle and toughest fare and will be steadiest and
firmest among those who are readiest to make
our government bcne6cent in action, creative in
its policy, an instrument, in fact, to secure to
every being in it the opportunity to live, and TO
enjoy life.
In these days of party, it is best always
to substantiate even what life may prove. Sd
in conclusion we give report of Judge Wade's
speech in Ravenna, last fall, to show his temper
and spirit.
Judge Wade fairly electrified the audience