Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-04-09
THE OHIO SENATOR.

| THE OHIO SENATOR.
The Hillsborough Recorder, the Greensborough
Patriot and other Federal prints have announced the
election of Benjamin F. Wade to the Senate from
Ohio, as that of first rate " original Whig." The
Recorder says:
The Ohio State Journal says that Judge Wade
Is dn original Taylor man, and is Wing of long
standing and of first rate Abilities"
And the Patriot says "Mr. Wade is an original
Taylor Whig, and gentleman of ability This,
then, is Whig triumph, considered and announc-
ed by these Wing papers. Let Us now see who this
Mr.. Wade is, and what are his sentiments.
An Ohio paper gives the following sketch of
Speech delivered by this Mr.. Wade. last Fall, in op-
position to the fugitive-sIave law, as follows:
"Judge Wade fairly electrified the audience by
the earnesness and energy with which he denounc-
ed the Fugitive law, and all who bore part in in
ficting it upon US. He said he had always been
Wing, still Wing, but here were considera-
and he for one prepared to unite with any men,
any party, in opposition to this law. He condemn
ed in the strongest terms Wings and Democrats who
aided in the passage of the law by their votes, or by
lodging rebuked with energy and spirit, Fillmore
and Crittenden, and visited Daniel Webster with the
most whitening and biting sarcastic deaunciations.
He said the law, brstling like porcupine. with pains
and penalties. was the most Infamous enactment
to the statute books of this country and such
as even the corrupt governments OF the oo "orlo
could pass without driving their people to revo-
luton. For himself, regardless of fines and lmpris
onment, if called upon. he Would grant to fugitive
slave the writ of ha6eas corpus; nay more. would
give him his liberty under 1t. He would not coun-
sci the people forced and armed resistance against
the execution of the law but he would say, that in
his judgment, should they initiate the example set by
the old fathers in regard to the Stamp Act and the
Tea Act, then ,r0un not much!
| He said we were appealed to by our love of the
Union to sustain this law. He paid glowing trib-
ute to the Union, and said it glorious long
it was restricted to the appropriate and legitimate
purpose of its creation namely, the security OF the
universal liberty and happiness of all the people
but if it be turned into engine OF cruelty and
oppression, used instrument of crushing tyran-
ny, warped round to the exclusive beneht OF slave
holders power and its vengeance invoked TO deter
free c.zens from the exercise of the most common
acts of humanity, and itself converted into grand
slave catcher, the get rid Of 1t, the befter
A, the Meeting where this Speech was made, by
Judge Wade, the following Resolutions were adopt
ed, precisely in accordance with his sentiments as
above advanced: !
Resoised, That the acceptance of the office of
commissioner marshal under this bill, Fugitive
slave bill, by any citizen of Ohio knowing tile du-
ties devolving upon him, will prove him to be man
utterly heartess, and devoid of humanity-and fit
associate for Haynau. Nor We expect 10 escape
the vengeance of Heaven if we do not trampk The
l1w in the dust and Indignantly tro,cn upon its erecu-
tors.
Resolusd, That those members of Congress from
free States who voted for the measure, deserue to be
buried the grave Of in3amy deep that the hand Of
political resurrection reach Them. And those
members who intentionally absened themselves when
the question taken less be respected than
those who recorded their names in the atfirnatve-
as they but added cowardce to their perhdlty."
At Camfeld, Ohio, Judge Wade also participated
in the adoption of the following Resolutions:
Resolued, That we will not under any political
cess:ty ,uhaterer, cote for any ma" "r any office y
trust honor or profit who voted for aided, directly
or indirectly in the passage of the act approves
its infamous provisions, AIDS IN ITS EXECUTION.
Resoived, That come life--or come Imprisonment,
come ine,-come death, we will neither aid or assist
in the return Of any fugitive slave but on the con-
trary e auN habor and secree, and by all just means,
PROTECT AND DEFEND him, and thus give him prac-
tical God speed to liberty"
Here, then, is an " orignal'' Taylor Whig-a
Wing patriot, and man over whose election to the
United States Senate the organs of Whigism, in a
slaveholding Slate, rejoice!
The Recorder, the Patriot, and other Federal and
submission prints in this State, very forward in
denouncing every Southern man who will not ap-
prove and laud the late so-called adjustment; but
here, on the other hand, is Whig who opposes in
the btteres manner the only in that adjust
ment calculated our benefit, and he is held
up as sound-as an IS original " Taylor Wing. Do
these papers suppose that the game they playing
on this slavery question: will be understood by
the people!
We call upon these papers, if they have any re-
gard for truth and fair deang to come forward with
the facts in this NATTER and let their readers kno,o ,vho
BENJAMIN f. Wade is Deliberate concealment in
case like this, is tantamount to fasehood uttered.