The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-12-30
Remarks of Mr.. Wade,

WHICH lou 10 lllb lOCuTelOIl. ITO nau reason
to believe it came chiefly from the Now
England States.
Mr.. Wade continued. For tho basest pur.
poses the great party to which he belonged
had boon charged with completely ia this
affair, but ho treated tho charge with scorn
and contempt. IL was so entirely over
strained that it foil on his car without
giving him q single emotion. But he know
what the effect OF such charge would be |
in that part of the country whore jealousy
existed with regard to acts and motives OF
Northern men. Tho only statements that
can reach tho cars Of Sputhern people arc
one. sided, and the antidoto TO this charge
thoy will mover got. Southern people arc |
deluded respecting tho state Of Northern
feeling. They deem it important to exclude !
incendiary documents from their midst, but |
no thought tho most dangerous inceudi. !
arism was to be found in tho speeches of
Southern mon. whom they tell their people
that the great party having control of all the
Free States sympathise with John Browns
raid. He regarded Brown as insane, and
asked Senators to discriminate between tho
man and his acts. Ii Virginia feels deeply
at this incursion into her territory and mur.
der Of her citizens, what wore the feelings
of Northern men few years ago whose ro.
lations aud friends had gone into q far dis
tant territory and formed colonies thorc,
weak and feeble and scattered through What
wilderness, when they found it was the do
iiberate purpose of great, powerful and
| all pervading party to drive them out or
coerco thcm to obedience under institutions
which they abhorred.
| He replied to Mr. Johnson's criticisms on
tho Republican platform. Mr.. Wade said
he was not ono of those who suppose all
Shareholders to bo deeply criminal, for he
knew how habit and custom modify tho frol-
ings OF mon. Washington was stakeholder,
but ho expressed himself in hopes that that
institution might DO abolished by some
means. How long would he be permitted
to remain in Virginia now and mako such
declarations MIR. Wado had nothing to
say when slavery was kept at the South, but
when they undertake to push it into n free
territory, where it docs not exist and has no
right to exist, he would resist it, and mover
consent that slavery should invade one inch
Of q territory now free. Perhaps, had he
been born ut the South, ho would have been
as fierce q freeater as he was now in de-
Tending himself against fire. He understood
how theso things were, and accused no man
because he was u slaveholdor Ho had boon
accused of denouncing tho Union. Ho
Mr.. CLAW. (dem.) of Ala. quoted from O
speech of Mr., Wade in 1856, whero no said,
"this pretended Union was all merotricious.
There was not a business man anywhere
who, If he had such partner. would hesitate
to kick him out at once, and have dono with
him" meaning such partner as the South.
Mr. Wade did not think his language was
correctly reported.
Mr.. Clay asked why bo did not disavow it
four years ago whom it was quoted hore ;
Mr. Wadc-I am not in the habit of re-
treating in the faco of tho enemy, and if the
speech was literally reported, it was no.
done by friend, but by an enemy Of repub.
licanism.
Mr. Clay-I saw it in q newspaper sup.
porting his party, where it was very highly
commended.
Mr.. Wade said he was at that timo oil.
Iudiug to tho irritation in consequence OF
affairs in Kansas, and tho manner in which
tho pro slavery aggressions were porsovered
in, tho removal OF tho Missouri restriction
&c, and then he declared that unless some
means could DO found to prevent these
, things it would ultimately result in just
,, what no was charged with saying, in making
the different sections as great enemies as
two hostile nations.
do say now there Is no very considerable
degree Of good feeling existing between the
: different sections of this nation, and l dc
not know to-day but that that sentiment, il
not truo thon, is very nearly true now.
MIR. Wade then proceeded to reply to the
: remarks of MIR. Iverson in regard to MIR
Sherman, saying that in Ohio Mr.. Sherman
was considered ono of tho greatest orna
ments of tho state. and he (Wade) rcjoicet
to know that tho Republican party roposet
the utmos. confidence in him. They have
i found nothing in him but what they car
approve, and Mr.. 1vorson, after all his in
9 vestigations, could find nothing moro sorou
@ to condemn IN him (Shcrman) than that h'
v had recommended the circulation of Helper
book. He would ask tho Senator iron
y Georgia il he thought there was anything il
O that book to make il dangerous to put |
into tho hands Of any freeman of tho South
. A pause The senator does not choose t
Q answer.
: Mr.. Iverson, (dem.) OF Georgia--I do no
> choose TO stultify myself by answering sucl
j. question. II is apparent TO any mau o
g common sense what would be its effects.
MIR. Wade said he had looked tho bool
through carefully, and found nothing bu
arguments against slavery. Tho great bod
r. OF tho statistical information in the book j
# drawn from tho census returns and public
II documents drawn from the archives of th
;, nation. If arguments against slavery can
=, not safely be made, that constitutes tn
greatest objection to the spread of that in
q stitution no over heard of. If We roall
4 have among US an institution that wo ar
o chersh;ng, and seek TO spread broadcas
e ovor the lard, so delicate in its structur,
If that froe people cannot have that infor
o nation concerning it which they crave. h,
said il was an inference moro fatal to tha
. institution than any he over heard of before
u He proceeded to alludo to tho muttore'
J, thunder of disunion meeting his cars from
II tho southern hemisphere, in case Ropub
G lican President is elected. He felt no alarm
a from that cause. This Union will not easil
- be dissolved. Gentlemen talk about it in
G very businesslike way. as though it was
: magazine to DO blown up whenever tho.
. choose to apply the match. This fabric ha
b been more than eighty yoars in building
and will not be destroyed in day. He thel
spoke of the navigable rivers, lines of rail
- roads and other interests intorlacing tn
., South and the North. There never was 81
70 great and glorious country. We are mar
y ried forever, for better or worse. If yo
D. wait till Republican President is elected
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