The Indiana State sentinel., 1874-06-30

rises and taunts Wade with question rela-r
tive to his belief in the common brotherhood
OF mankind. II have," says Wade, "alwavs
heretofore believed in the doctrine of the
Declaration of Independence that all men
are born free and equal, but of late il ap-
pears that some men are born slaves. and. /
regret to say, they are not black so all the
world might know them." AS he saws this
Wade levels his finger at Pugh, and for sew
eral moments stands pointing at him in si-
ience, with a scowl aud expression of fero-
clousness never seen on his face before.
Slowly the index finger falls, and the burly
senator sinks back into his seat amid pro-
found silence in the chamber ~.
(, Inc Kansas Nebraska bill is up, and
Wade has Just said: 81 know very well with
what yell of triumph the passage of this
bill will be hailed, both in the South and in
Pandemonium." Brown, of Mississippi a
small, dwarfish looking man, interrupting-
"Do you know what is going on there?r
[Laughter.l Hr 80 T0-
Senator Wade: ST do not pretend to know
precisely what is on foot there, but think
IL is pretty evident that there is free COM
munication between f
THIS CHAMBER AND PURGAToRY, na
and, unless am greatly mistaken. I see
the dwarfish medium by which that COM
munication is kept, up.D [Great laughter.
and voice on the southern side, 81 guess
he's got you, Brown"
The same day Mr.. Badger, a Senator from
North Carolina, is drawing glowing picture
OF slavery, He says be has been nursed bv
black woman, and grown from childhood
to manhood under her care. He loves his
old Dlack nanny, and now if he was going
to Kansas or Nebraska, and the opponents
OF this bill succeed in prohibiting slavery
there, he can not take his old NANNY with
him. Turning to Mr.. Wade, he says plain
lively, surely, you will not prevent me
frn 10 Ii
Certainly not" replies Wade, with luCi-
crous tone of voice; ''but that is not the diff
Guilty in the mind of the Senator 1t is be-
cause, If we make the Territories free. he
cannot sell his old nanny when he has got
her there" Again there is roar, and Bad
| gers plaintiveness and tears become ridicu-
| lous. Now Wade is arguing to show that
slaves are not property in the constitutional
meaning ofthe term. He says: "If man
carries his horse out of slave state into
free one. he does not lose his property inter
est in him; but, if he carries his slave into a
tree state, the law makes him Free"
Senator Butler interrupting: Eyes, but
| they won't stay with you; they love us so
well they will run off and come back in
spite of your boasted freedom" .--
Mr.. Wade, smilingly: "Oh, yes, senator!
L know they love you so we'll you have to
make fugitive slave law to catch
them." (Roars of laughter
The anGi-slavery cause is Iull of such incl
QentS; and, when Eastman comes to make
up his book, / hope he will gather them up
to Tighten the obituary pages, and not make
his work a charnel house full of dead mems
bones and funeral services. Iwish some one
in the abolition convention had given us a
history of the "Wellington Rescuers," and
of
| DAVID wILMoT,
one of the greatest anti-slavery man of his
day. The former can myself supply, and
will do so at my first leisure. Wilmot ought
not to be passed over in silence on such an
important occasion, and although / never
| loved trimmer, which is another name for
| compromise, still David Wilmot deserves to
be remembered by his countrymen, and his
name must be written in on of the fore
most pages of anti-slsvery history. If, how
ever, he had been the husband of Mrs
Spratt, they would never have licked
| the platter clean, for David was too polite by
half, and could never have been induced to
take the last knifeful of butter, tho last
piece of meat, or the last spoonful of gravy.
1t took old Ben Wade to cry down the
slavery cause, and yet he was always popu-
lar with Southern men; for, as ToOmbs, of
Georgia, said of him in the Senate, /" Ny
| friend from Ohio puts the matter squarely.
He is always honest, and wish to God the
rest of you were like him. He says what is
the difference, and it u.s. He means what he
says; you don't always. He and L can
agree about everything on earth, except our
sable population"