Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-12-28
the Union. He would like to know when
he had done so?

Wade in 1856, where he said this pretend
t cd Union was all meretricious. There wa.
not a business man any where who, if h
/ had such 4 partner, would hesitate to kich
| him out at once and have done with him.
: meaning such partner as the South.
t Mr.. Wade admitted that he did make 6
: pretty fierce speech but he did not think hi.
, 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 in the habit of re.
treating in the face of the enemy. If the
speech was literally reported, it was moi
done by friend but by enemy of Repub-
, icanism.
Mr.. Clay-I saw it in a newspaper sup
porting his party, where it was very highly
commended.
Mr.. Wade said he was at the time allu-
ding to the irritation in consequence of af-
fairs in Kansas, and the manner in which
the prO-slavery aggressions were persevered
in, the removal of the Missouri Restriction,
etc, and then he declared that unless some
means could be found to prerent these
things, it would ultimately result in just
what he was charged with saying, in max
ing the different sections as great enemies
as two hostile nations
Mr. Clay said there was stronger Ian
guagc than that in the Speech, and read
another extract to the effect that there was
no union between the North and South, and
that the only salvation for the Union was
to be found in divestins it of all taint of
Slavery.
Mr. Wade-I do say now there is no
very considerable degree of good feeling ex-
listing between the different sections of this
union, and DO not know to-day but that
sentiment if not true then is very nearly
true now. Northern men cannot travel and
do business in the Southern States accord
ing to the newspapers. Great numbers of
merchants on their way South to DO bust
ness have recently been sent back, not be-
cause there was any particular accusation
against them, but because they were from
a section of which the South was exceeding
ly jealous. Mr.. Wade then proceeded to
reply to the remarks of Mr.. Ivcrson in re-
gard to Mr.. Sherman, saying that in Ohio.
Mr.. Sherman was considered one of the
greatest orncments of the State, and he
(Wade) rejo;ced to know that the Republi-
can party reposed the utmost confidence in
him. They have found nothing in him but
what they approve, and Mr.. Iverson, after
all his investigations, could find nothing
more serious to condemn in him (Sherman)
than that he had recommended the circula-
ton of Helpers book He would ask the
Senator from Georgia if he thought there
was anything in that book to make it dan
serous to put it in the hands of any free
man in the South?-(Apausc) The SEN
ator does not choose to answer.
Mr.. Iverson.-I do not choose to stultify
myself by answering such question. 1t
is apparent to any man Of common sense
what would be its effects
Mr. Wade said he had looked the book
through carefully, and found nothing but
arguments against Slavery. Unless such
arguments were unlawful. he saw nothing
in the book but what was right and proper
for the consideration of all men who take
an interest in such matters. Has it come
to this in free American, that there must be
a censorship of the press instituted, that
man cannot give currency to book con-
taining arguments that he thinks are prop
erly addressed to whole classes of the free /
of the country? The great body /
Of the statistical information in the book is
drawn from the census returns and public .
documents in the archives of the nation
If arguments against Slavery cannot safely /
be made, that constitutes the greatest OIL
lection to the spread of that institution lie
ever heard OF. If we really have among US
an institution that We are chcrishing and
seek to spread broadcast over the land, so
delicate in its structure that a free people
clnnOt have that information concerning it
which they crave, he said it was an infer
rnee more fatal to that institution than
any he ever heard of before. He f...cced-
ed to allude to the muttered thunder of dis
union meeting his cars from the Southern
in case Republican President
is elected. He felt no alarm from that
,ausc This Union Will not easily lie dis
solved. Gentlemen talk about it in very
busincss-likc way, as though it was a mag
lzine to be blown up whenever they choose
. Apply the match. This fabric has been
more than eighty years in building, and
will not be destroyed in day. He then
poke of the navigable rivers. lines of rail ;
'oads and other interests intricating the
south and North. Th.re never was 50 {
.reat and gl,a;Ous a country. We are
married forever, for better or worse. We !
an make our condition very uncomfortable
,at nevertheless there will be no divorce !
nent between us. There is no way in {
which it can be effected, but least of all in {
he contingency mentioned. If you wait
Ill a Republican President is elected you
viii have waited day tOolate. Why don't
-ou do it now when you have the Govern
nent in your own hands? l say to you
le vould he but a sorry Republican who. |