Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-07
Communicated.
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph.
The U. s. Senatorship.
February q 1862

Editor Tslegraph:-The late letter
from JOHN W. FoREEY, declaring that,
as Representative Of the Union senti-
ment, which made David Tod Cover
nor of Ohio, a return to the United
States Senate is preeminently due to the
Hon. Benjamin +. Wade, We regard as
a word in "due season." and City
spoken, in behalf of eur distinguished
Senator. The further statement, that
Pres't Lincoln and sec'y Stanton fre-
quently consult Mr.. Wade's judgement
in regard to the proper conduct of the
war, establishes beyond coutros sersy the
great value of his public services, in the
estimation Of those most competent to
judge, andSat the sama time shows that
the third State in the Union has its ie-
climate weight and influence in the
councils of the nation. i his indorse-
ment derives additional portance-as
being the out-spoken sentiment Of a
lifelong Democrat and political oppo-
nent. No ordinary merits or abilities
could have secured 1t.
In our judgment, the character Of
Mr.. Wade is marked in an eminent de-
gree, by those qualities peculiarly requi.
site in public man, during a great
crisis in the history of nation. Self
made-coming up from the lower walks
oflifs to the high position he now holds
his whole political career is an exam
pie worthy of emulation, for its stern
and inconptible integrity, bold and un-
dinching courage, uncompromising aa-
herence to principle, and unfaltering de-
votion to the Constitution and the
Union. Unapproachable by the cor
ruption which, for years previous to Mr..
Lincoln's Administration, penetrated
every avenue of Washington, and with
brazen front stalked at noon-day into
the very portals of the Capitol, the
bitterest political foe has not dared to
breathe suspicion against his infexi-
Bile honesty. Serving his State at q
time when many Representatives of the
people shrank in covering silence be-
fore the domineering insolence Of an i'm
perious slaveholdiag aristocracy, and
when the freedom Of debate was as
sailed by a brutal and murderous at
tack upon distinguished Senator, for
words spoken in the constitutional dis
charge of his duty, the trumpet tones
of our noble Senator were heard in a
fearless and defiant vindication of the
constitutional rights Of the people,
against the aggressions Of slaveholding
aristocrats. Again, in the incipient
stages of the great struggle in which we
are now engaged, when the devotees Of
slavery, with insufferable insolence, de-
manded that the people of the North
should become traitors to themselves
and to posterity, by shamelessly surren-
dering the vital principle Of free govern
ment, which declares that the majority
shall rule, in a masterly defense Of free
institutions, and an unanswerable expo
sition of the fundamental doctrines of
the Constitution, our Senator demon
strated his adherence to principle,
through evil and good report, as we'll
as his devotion to the great idea of self
government. Later still, by his tire
less energy as chairman of the Senate
Investigating Com mittee, on the con-
duct Of the war, the treachery Of Gen.
Stone was brought to light, in time to
save his command from being given into
the hands of the enemy, by an act of
perfdy, in comparison with which the
treason of Arnold would be public vlr-
tue. This brings US down to the close
of senatorial experience Of eleven
years, during which the able politician
and clear minded Senator has advanced
to the ripe maturity Of an accomplished
statesman. But the crowning charac-
teristic which makes Mr.. Wades's SER
vices indispensable in the present cri-
sis, is his terrible earncstness i'll subdu-
ing the rebellion. Bearing constantly
in mind its utter want of justiica lion,
aud the deplorable evils it has brought
upon our country, he would destroy, by
the mighty power of free people, this
truly diabolical conspiracy against
American liberty, together with, all and
its supports and supporters
Nothing should be permitted for mo-
ment to prevent the rising storm of pop
ular indignation from sweeping from
our land the last vestige Of treason,
in the principal or the acees
sorry. Every man and institution that
stands between traitors aid the Just
judgements Of an outraged people,
should 20 down like the quivering for
est before the irresistible power of the
hurricane or tornado. Terribly but
Justly would he vindicate the insulted
majesty Of the people, by the speedy
punishment Of all aiders and abettors of
this desperate and bloody attempt to
destroy the Constitution and the Union.
And yet, with all these distinguishing
characteristics, he is plain and unassum-
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