Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-19
BEN WADE AND HIS GERMAN
FRIENRE


From the 81. Louis Republican.
During the great campaign 10 Ohio last
fall, Ben. Wade slumped the State in favor
| OF negro suffrage, and in one Of his
speeches, 10 thew Reserve, We be-
lieVe, he iBdulged Ia sHch odions COMPARE
sons between the patriotic and intelligent
negroes aud the STUPID and ignorant white
Immigrants from Europe, that the German
Radical press OF Ohio was forced by public
opinions ID Gercely attack him. The Irish
in Ohio Aeyer we're very friendly toward
him, aud the election returns showed that
he had also made thousands of Germans
enemies Of his ObHO1iou cause.
The leaders among the German Radicals
found this condition of things prejudicial
to their interests. Ben Wade might posi-
bly, become President of the United States,
and if the Germans persisted in their hos
tility towards him, there were no favors TO
be expected for the wire-pullers- Friend
ship had, therefore, 10 be restored between
the Germans and Ben. Wade, IA spiie of
all the insults which he hsd heapsa upou
them. A politician named kiJtie va or
dered by Mr. Hassaubeck, the chief wire
puller OF the German Radicals of Ohio, to
visit Mr.. Wade and examine him closely
regarding his feelings towards the Germans,
and behold the miracle The mind of the
President Of the Senate has undergone
such a total change that be now declares
himself to be an ardent admirer Of his
German friends. The conversation be-
tween the Hon Ben. Wade and Mr.. Riotts
has been published in the Cincinnati Hoiks-
bLat, Mr.. Hassaubecks own paper, and
though Ben. Wade, by his sudden CONVEX
sion may not have made many friends
among the Germans Mr.. Hassaubeck, in
particular, aud the wire-pullers in general,
have a safe basis upon which TO deceive
the people and to prefer their claims to
the favor Of the anticipated chance-Presi
dent.
This new fashion of popularizing OBJ.
noxions men by making them say for
purpose the very opposite of what on for
mer occasions they thought and spoke on
certain topics has become perfect pas
quinade on veracity and candor. The
mockery is 80 coarse, and the intention so
palpably infamous, that it seems impossi-
bic for any reasonable being to be deceived
by It, Suppose some scheming politicians
of the Israelite denomination had an in
terest in working for the candidacy of
NeueEdl OT&nL.
They would go and ask the General,
who, by certain order excluded all the
lsraelites from his camp, under no other
pretense than that they were Israeites,
whether or not he was now a friend Of the
Jews, and if he would not have them vote
for him? Taciturn as he commonly is, he
would on that occasion open his mouth aud
tell his Jewish friends that, in spite of
his orders by which he once outlawed
them, he could not help admiring them,
and he never loved any class of people
better. He might allude to the circum-
stance that ne always preferred to bay his
clothing and furnishing goods at Jewish
clothing houses. Does any one imagine
that these professions extorted from Gene
raj Grant by the circumstances, would be
regarded by the masses of the lsraelites as
an offset 10 his proscriptive order during
the war? Not one among a thousand Is
raelites would trust him aud not one
among a thousand Germans would trust
Ben. Wade He once kicked them, when
he thought he could do SO with i'm
punity; and, if he is inspired by sudden
love for them now, he will be rewarded for
it only by his own conscience. My re-
speet you may still enjoy, said spirited
belle to a lover who had once scorned her
but my hand-neverp