North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-05
THE OHIO SENATOR.

The Hillsborough Recorder, the Greenshorough
Patriot and other Federal prints have announced the
election Of Benjamin f.. Wade to the Senate from
Ohio, as that of first rate .. original Wing" The
Recorder says:
The Ohio State Journal says that Judge Wade
is original Taylor man, and is a wing OF long
standing and of first rate Abilities.
And the Patriot says Mr.. Wade IS an original
Taylor Wing, and gentleman of ability. This,
then, is Wing triumph, so 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 a
Speech delivered by this Mr. Wade, last Fall, in OPP
position to the fugitive slave law, as follows
"Judge Wade fairly electrified the audience by
the earnestness and energy with which he denounc-
ed the Fugitive law, and all who bore part in in
iictino it upon US. He said he had always been
Wing, was still Wing, but here were considcra-
tons which far above party and party influences,
and he for one prepared to unite with any men,
or 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 by
lodging rebuked with energy and spirit, Fillmore
and Crttenden, and visited Daniel Webster with the
most whitening and biting sarcastic denunciatons
He said the law, brstng like porcupine, with pains
and penalties, was the most infamous enactment
known to the books of this country, and such
as even the corrupt governments OF the old world
could not pass without driving their people to
luton For himself, regardless of fines and imprs-
onment, if called upon he would grant to fugitive
slave the writ of ha6eas corpus; nay more, would
give him his liberty under it. 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 by
the old fathers in regard to the Stamp Act and the
Tea Act, they DouH not err much!
He said we appealed to by our love of the
Union to sustain this law. He paid glowing trib-
ute the Union, and said it glorious long
restricted the and legitimate
purpose of its creation, namely, the security of the
universal liberty and happiness of all the people
but If 1t was TO be turned into engine OF cruelty and
oppression, used instrument of crushing tyran
ny, warped round to the exclusive benefit of slave
holders, its power and its vengeance invoked to deter
free citizens from the exercise of the most common
acts of humanity, and itself converted into grand
slave catcher, the get rid Of 1t, the better
At the Meeting where this Speech made, by
Judge Wade, the following Resolutions were adopt
ed, precisely in accordance with his sentiments as
above advanced
s. ResOiSed. That the acceptance of the Office of
commissioners or marshal under this bill, Fugitive
slave bill, by any citizen of Ohio, knowing the du
ties devolvng upon him, will prove him to be man
utterly heartless, and devoid of humanity-and fit
associate for Haynau. Nor can We expect to escape
the vengeance of Heaven if we do not tranpLe the
LaW in the dust, and indignantly roDn upon It's erecu-
tors.
RESOLVED, That those members Of Congress from
buried in the Craze Of infamy deep that the hand Of
political resurrection reach Them. And those
members who Intentionally absented themselves when
the question taken, less be respected than
those who recorded their names in the Affirmative
as they but added cowardice to their per6dity."
At Camfeld, Ohio, Judge Wade also participated
in the adoption of the following Resolutions:
Resoiped, That we ,viH under any political
cessity avh0euer, rOte for any far any office Of
trust, hOn0r profit who voted for aided directly
indirectly, in the passage of the act, approves
is Infamous provisions, AIDS In ITS EXECUTION.
ResoEued, That come life--or come imprisonment, |
come fine-come death, will neither aid assist
in the return of any fugitive slave, but, the con-
rary ,re ,ciH habor and secretc and by all just MEANS
PROTECT AND DEFEND him. and thus give him Prac-
lcal God speed to liberty"
Here, then, is an " original' Taylor Whig-a
Wing patriot, and man whose election to the
United States Senate the organs of Whigism, in a
Slate, rejoice!
The Recorder, the Patriot, and other Federal and
prints in this State, very forward in
every Southern man who will not ap-
prove and laud the late so-called adjustment; but
lere, on the other hand, is Wing who opposes in
he bitterest the only in that adjust
nent cacu lated benefit, and he is held
Up as sound-as an " original' Taylor Wing. Do
hese papers suppose that the game they playing
IN this slavery question, will not be understood by
he people!
We call upon these papers, if they have any re-
Tard for truth and fair dealing. to come forward with
he facts in this NATTER and let their readers kno0 ,chO
Benjamin F. Wade is. Deliberate conceament in
ase like this, is tantamount to fasehood uttered.