Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-21
The Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, Z. S. Sen

The Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, Z. S. Sen
ator for the State of Ohio, made q stirrin
speech AZ Washington on last Monde.
To be appreciated. II had TO be heerd. I'll
Globe does not begin TO do either 1t
words or the spirit of the speech aDythiB
like justice II WINS what might he calle,-
. sistunncr' Wade himself is peculiar
sort of man He is Familiarity called
'soid Ben Wade" is greatly admired and
respected BY his opponents, and loved By
his friends. No man is more jovial and
warm with Old Ben than our Senator Ma
son. We have seen them in the most
brotherly MISUNDERSTANDING each other
by the hands for moments together, and
laughing and chatting as if they were the
most homogeneous compile in the world
the Republic His father was an officer in
the war of 1872, and his grandfather in
the war of &c. They borh had freely Civ
In their swords and their fortunes 10 their
country, and their presen, descendant: is
man of exactly the same stamp. He il,
il personal appearance, The very emhodi-
meursof power. He is man who knows
no fear, no shrinking, and is AT all times
and under all circumstances, answerable
for what he SAYS AS pistol shot and
rifle shot, he has fame quiir equal to his
reputation as a lawyer and statesman,
and was known to ring the bell seventeen
times in succession one day not long ago,
and has always given his opponents TO
understand that whenever they wanted to
Try him on, he was at their service The
consequence has been that ''Old Ben" has
enjoyed an immunity for any observations
looking to an exchange of uutographs.-
Il is well known that he would PLAY for
keeps with the FIRST man that offered, and
that kind Of game, since the tunes of Pot
Ter aud Pryor, is not much in vogue AT
Washington. So much for short b;og-
rnphy Of Wades personnel aud morale.
his speech was SUI gencris lie paid his
respects to Mr.. Wigfnll, the redouUtable
champion of Gre-eaters from Texas. and
he went into that eentlcman with gloves
Cd. It was generally agreed that, on he
half of the North, he gave him the same
sort of dose that Wigfall previously had
offered as the ultImatum of the South
He did not pretend to speak for any
body but himself, but he believed, how
ever, that he spoke for the Republican
party generally. II the South wanted war,
and would have nothing else, it was war
that they should have, and to their hearts
content. If they expected to bully the
North, they had mistaken their game, and
they had just as we'll know that fact first
as last. The North had twenty millions of
people, all raised to habits of hardy en-
durauce, long For5earance, conscientious
notions of duty, patient industry, self-re-
liant purposes, and possessed all the in
dOmitable traite of the Anglo-Saxon char
acter- These men had gone into the cleo
ton in good faith, under the forms Of the
Constitution, expecting to bear their de-
feat, if defeated, aud to enjoy their sue
cess, if successful. Time and again they
bad submitted before. No man ever heard
a murmur from them-never a threat of
rebellion. They bore their defeat ms they
now wear their success, with moderation,
with forbearauce, and with magnanimity.
They looked upon their Southern brethren
not as prisoners of war, but as a common
brotherhood, whose Constitution was their
Constitution, whose country was their
country, and whose destiny was their des-
tiny. And now, said he, turning to thc
Southern side of the Senate, you propose
to rcpudiate the game you have lost
"Heads you win, tails we lose" is what
you announce. You only play Cor sue.
cess, and wish to be counted out when
you lose. You want us 10 beg you to
take your seats again-to be calm-,o try
Your chances again. Yon want us to ask
your pardon--to say we have done some
thing wrong, and TO promise we will never
doso any more. Speaking tor myself, as n
individual, he said, / am perfectly willing to
letyougo. Speaking as representative in
this high chamber of the Nation, / am not
am not willing to let you rule or ruin
the government. am willing to give YOU
all that reason and justice would give YOU
] am willing to do more. am willing to
give you privileges. But am not willing
TO always allow yon to pervert the gov.
eminent to your own purposes, irrespcc,
tive of the rights and interests OF other
sections. You think you have us at 8
disadvantage, he said, but it is not SO
Yopr"CottOn is mott King" as you boast
Who isit King over? Not over US, be as.
sured.a Not over Grea. Britain. Read the
recent articlesofher press. Do they sym.
pathize with you? Do they enconrag.
yougl mot son theScontrary they tell YOU