Benjamin F. Wade
Benjamin F. Wade
Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wadewas a United States Senator during Civil War reconstruction known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 October 1800
CountryUnited States of America
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I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
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If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
Well, what are you going to do about it?
You can never conquer us, we will die first.
But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.
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We certainly cannot have any further political connection with the Whigs of the South; they have rendered such connection impossible. An impassable gulf separates us, and must here-after separate us.
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To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
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The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.
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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
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I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
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I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
men rights ideas
Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
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I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.