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WASHINGTON, Dec. IA.
SENATE.

Mr.. MasonS resolution was taken up.
Mr.. Wade said at first 1t was not his pur-
pose to speak on this resolution. He made up
hts mind when the resolution was introduced.
that he would vote for it. not on account of
any particular benefit that he supposed would
result from 1t, Tor he thought it would probably
have the effect OF increasing that state of ex-
citement which already seems to be sufficient
ly strong, at least for all practical purposes.
But over this resolution the whole subject of
controversy between the northern and south.
ern states on the slavery question, has been
discussed, and illusions had been made to him
personally In such terms as to render it essen
tial he should reply. He had no desire to get
up frequently to speak on this most hacknied
subject. He had not been forward in thrust
ing himself before the Senate, but when meas.
ures of great importance had been pressed, he
had been compelled to give his views 1t was
said by the mover Of this resolution, that one
great object of it was to elicit the state of
northern feeling respecting the Invasion at
Harper's Ferry.
Mr.. Mason desired to correct the senator.
Tat assertion had once or twice been ascribed
to him in the course of this debate, but it was
misrepresentation He wished to discover
whose counsel had led to his incursion. He
had reason to believe it came chiefly from the
New England states.
Mr.. Wade continued: For the basest pur-
pose the great party to which he belonged had
been charged with completely in this affair
But he treated the charge with scorn. 1t was
entirely oyerstraned. 1t fell on his ear with
out exciting any other emotion. But he knew
what the effect of such charge would be in
that part OF the country where jealousy exist
ed with regard to the acts and motives of north
ern men, The only statements that can reach
the ears of sOutharn nnonla ara ono eidad
The antidote to this charge they will never
get No man is allowed to express his senti-
ments at the south unless they are cut and
trimmed to suit public opinion, No northarn
man is now permitted to go to the south
unless he leaves his manhood and indie
pendence. behind. 1t is not strange, there
fore, that southern people are deuded respect
ing the state of northern feeling They deem
1t important to exclude incendiary documents
from their midst. But he thought the most
dangerous incendiarism was to be found in
the speeches of southern men, when they tell
their people that the great party, having con-
troll OF the free states, sympathizes with John
Browns raid. He regarded Brown as insane,
and asked the senators to discriminate between
the man and his acts. If the state of Virginia
feels deeply at this incursion into her tertiary
and the murder of her citizens what must
have been the feelings of northern men, few
years ago, whose relations and friends had
gone into a far of territory, and formed col
onies there. Weak, feeble, and scattered
through that wilderness, when they found
it was the deliberate purpose of a great,
powerful, and all-absorbing party, to drive
them out or coerce them into obedience
to institutions which they. abhorred from the
depths of their souls, they were driven out
they were murdered in cold blood their prop
dpStrOUp1 thaU aDno6 tn
for redress, and received only insults. When
state this, state what l do know. This
government did, at least, connive at that band
OF conspirators who arming themselves law
lessly, with arms belonging to the government,
invaded that territory, took possession of the
ballotboXes, drove the citizens away from the
polls, drove them away from their possessions,
and exercised a tyranny over them. But that
took place at distance, and did not cause the
same excitement as when similar transaction
comes nearer home In his Judgment the only
difference between that case and this was, that,
In the case of Kansas, the invasion was made
with no other purpose than to introduce sla-
very there at all hazards and by force of arms,
whereas, old John Brown and his men, with a
like unlawful purpose, undertook to extirpate
slavery from the state Of Virginia. The Kan
sas free state men got no consolation from the
government; but one Senator used this Ian
guage eve will subdue you. You are
traitors. We will hang every man of you"
Mr. Wade said he did not go back to these
things to justify John Brown and his crew in
their invasion of Virginia but only to show
why it is that men in the free states sympa-
thise with the old hero. In the darkest hour
of Kansas, when her rights were in peril and
everything looked gloomy there, and the fed
eral government failed to interpose in her be-
l,olf - hat TnI
the stage of action, arming himself as well he
might and undertook to do that justice for
himself and followers which the government
denied. He did it with a heroism and deter
mination that challenged admiration from his
friends, and even respect from his enemies.
He drove the border rutfianS from the territory
and conquered peace.
Mr.. Wade believed that Brown was mad
dened by the scenes of blood he witnessed in
Kansas, for he did not think that any sane
man ON earth would have undertaken that en-
terprise at Harper's Ferry. He also said he
had never seen single person who justified
Browns raid, for the northern people do not
sympathize with crime.
Mr.. Wade said he was not one of those who
suppose all shareholders to be deeply criminal,
for he knew how custom and habit modify the
feelings of men. Washington was Slavehold-
er; but he hoped the institution might be
abolished. How long would be be permitted to
remain in Virginia now and make such declar-
atoms Mr.. Wade had nothing to say when
slavery was kept at the south; but when they
undertook to push it into free territory,
where il does not exist and has no right to eX-
list, he would resist it, and would never con-
sent that slavery should invade one inch OF
territory now free. Had he been born at the
south, he might have been as fierce tire-eater
T., Nn1 hONu
things were, and accused no man because he
was stakeholder. He had been accused of
denouncing the Union, lie would like to
know when he had done so.
Mr.. Clay quoted from speech OF Mr..
Wade's in 1856, where he said "This pre-
tended union was all meretricious. There was
not a business man anywhere, who it he had
such a partner, would hesitate to kick him out
at once and have done with him" meaning
such partner as the south.
Mr.. Wade admitted that he did make
pretty fierce speech, but he did not think his
language was correctly reported.
Mr.. Clay asked why he did not diSavow it
four years ago, when it was quoted here.
Mr.. Wade.-I am not i'll the habit of re-
treating in the face of the enemy. If the
speech was literally reported, it was not done
by friend, but an enemy of Republicanism.
Mr. Clay.-I saw it in newspaper support.
ing your party, where it was very highly COM
mended.
Mr.. Wade said he was at the time abiding
to the irritation caused by affairs in Kansas,
and of the persevering pro-slavery aggressions
there, the removal of the Missouri restriction,
&C.. and he then declared that unless some
means could be found to prevent such things,
it would ultimately result in just what he was
charged with saying, in making the two sec
tons like two hostile nations.