Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-13
BEN WADE ON THE WAR PATH

pies as Acting Vice President gives
more than ordinary significance to his
utterances on public affairs at the pres.
ent time Though coarse and shallow
man, he has, by display of vigor and
| pluck, been able to hold a high position
in his party Nearly twenty years of
undertaking devotion to the pestiferous
principles which split the country
in twain, and still would keep it
sundered, has obtained for him a
front rank; and he is to-day officially, at
the head of the Congressional revOiun
tionists In the event that Jacobin cabal
should attempt to usurp the entire con
troll Of the government during the
coming winter by declaring the President
deposed from Office, he would assume the
station. He was selected for deposition
Of President Of the Senate, not for his
eminent fitness as a presiding officer
either on the score of capacity or eourte-
Gus manners; for, among Radical Sena~
tors, there is a number superior to him
in both respects. He was chosen because
he was regarded as having courage to
lead in any desperate project that the
exigencies Of the future might make
necessary. He is the man who is to de-
mand the great seal, and act as Chief of
the Committee of Public Safety and
Lord Protector of the realm, when the
Radical revolution shall be accom>
plished
In a speech at Cleveland, Ohio, on
Wednesday, he foreteHs the crisis in
which he expects to figure so conspicu>
ously He exhorts to preparation for
war. He would fire the Northern heart
to have an army in readiness to complete
the overthrow Of the constitutional au-
thorities, and install the Jacobin crew in
power under his leadership. The tele-
graph reports him as follows
Mr. Wade began by saying that, in his
judgment no more important crisis in the
history of our government had ever existed
than the present. Though the conflict of
arms had ceased, there must be no relaIa-
ton. The powers which opposed the gov
eminent during the war still exist; their
purposes are unchanged ard determination
unaltered. He said, when the special SEES
sion of Congress closed, many believed
that at last the President of the United
States would abandon the course which he
had 80 long pursued, accept the policy of
Congress, which was approved by large
majority of the people, and execute the
laws passed by that body. l was not of
that number, for had no confidence that
he would administer the laws with fidelity
when freed from the restraints which were
necessarily imposed upon him during the
session of Congress. Surely enough, he has
fallen back on to the same devious course,
and at last we have il from his special organ
that he is on the war path. By his procla-
nations you know that he still asserts his
determination to pursue policy in Oppo-
sitiOn TO that Of Congress, and we have
hints from all sides that he will carry out
that policy, peacefully if he can. if not, by
force. Doubtless many of you think the
undertaking is so rash that no man in his
senses would attempt it, and so when Sum
ter was fired upon, some thought that actual |
war was not intended
The speaker assured the people that as
great peril exists to-day as when armed |
Rebels struck at the life Of the republic, |
and ardently appealed to those who saved |
the nation BY their valor then, to rally to |
It's salvation now. No one could say he |
had been an alarmist during the war He |
had never doubted our ultimate success |
but the Vaccinations of the present enc
mics ofthe republic do not arrest attention |
as did the clamOrs of war, and are so much /
the more dangerous for that reason.
He referred TO the fact that the Rebel |
leaders showed no signs of repentance, but /
are ready to try again when opportunity
offers. He spoke of the Congressional com
mittee which was investigating the temper
and disposition of the South, and CON
cluded that the rebellion is as rife as at any
time during the war.
lie said, in reference TO that state of feel
ing The danger lies in the fact that stand
ing back of those who got up and carried
on the rebellion was a large party organ
lied at the North, whose sympathies were
with them, and who gave them all the aid
and comfort in their power. ] will even
say, were it not for the sympathy of the
Democratic party there would never have
been a rebellion.