The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-07-01
Rsn Wade ns Good N NuIIifier as
TOombs.


Senator Wade has been for years
and is at this time one Of the leader
Of the Republican party. He did a
much as any other man in sowing th'
seeds Of strife between the North on,
the South. He encouraged disunior
TO the extent of his influence and abil
jty, before the war broke out. Ir
1856, at mass meeting of anti slave
ry men, held in the State of Maine, he
said there was really no union at that
time between the North and the South
aad he believed no two nations upon
the earth entertained feelings of more
bitter rancor toward each other thar
these two sections Of the Republic.
We have no doubt HIS rancor to the
South was bitter enough to satisfy a
fiend. AT that time he was for saving
the Union by wiping out slavery. He
said "the only salvation of the Union
is to be found in divesting it entirely
Of all faint of slavery" and yet he
now has the effrontery to tell the peo-
pie Of Ohio that the people of the
South had no cause to fear that slavery
would be interferred with by the party
that elected Lincoln. He further de-
clared there WAS no Union with the
South even in 1855, and he added:
"Let us have q Union, or let US sweep
away thia remnant which We call u
Mon" And his way ofhavinga Union
WAS to interfere with the rights of the
South by abolishihg slavery.
After having done what he could,
in connection with other leading Abo-
lition conspirators against the peace
Of the country, to drive the people of
the South into disunion, he exerted all
his influence to prevent a peaeeable
adjustment Of the difficulties between
the North and the South, when such
an adjustment was practicable. Since
the war broke out, he has done what
he could to widen the breach between
the sections, and to make q voluntary
return of the people of the South to
the Union impossible. He has recon-
mendcd and supportedall the measures
Of confscation and emancipation, cal
culated to make the South q unit, ter
ribly in earnest, and never to be cons
quered. Yet this same man in June,
1853, on the floor of the Senate, de-
clared that the people of the South had
the right to do what they have since
done, and that he would do the same
under like circumstances. He did more,
he acknowledged himself to be Null
lihcr. In that debate (see part 3, p.
2943, Congressional Globe, 1st session,
35th Congress) he acknowledges him
self to be Nullifisr. Wequote what
he said. Mr.. Toonbs, of Georgia,
said: .
"When this Government was formed
there was great difficulty, in the Con-
vention that framed the Constitution,
about what should be the relations of
the several States to the General Gov
ernment. They we're entirely equal
under the Confederation. Many of the
lesser States struggled to retain their
equality, but finally they yielded it in
one branch of the National Legislature
md maintained it in the other. That
was the result of the struggle. They
agreed that numbers and population
throughout the United States should
govern in one branch of Congress, but
that the other branch should represent
the sovereignty of the States. | am
quite sure my friend from Ohio Mr..
Wadel, who has very fairly argued this
question on his side, can not place a
higher estimate--it is impossible for
any man to place higher estimate
on the Importance of the absolute SOW
-ereignty Of the States of this Union
than do. Ihave maintained it thro'-
outmy political life, in good fortune
and in evil fortune, that they were So
vereign; that they were judges of the
infraction of the compact, and of the
mode and measure of redress, and
take it that he would be too afraid of
the term 'nullifer' to extend his devo-
tion to the sovereignty Of the States as
far as / claim that my own goes.
q ''Mr. Wade--I am as good a Null
Aer as you are.
"Mr. Toombs--I am glad to hear it.
1t is good doctrine. / think it is a
good sign to hear the Senator make
that declaration, especially after our
troubles for the last eight or ten years.
/ have seen the time when I could not
find o. man in either branch Of Con-
gress to admit that he was one. err
"Mr. iWade---I was not here then
nj This leading Republican, who de-
clared to the country that he was as
good . Nsllifer as Toombs himself,
reported to tho recent Republican Con-
. s.t a -.
vention, at Columbus. a anlatform which