A Washington
correspondent gives the following extract of some remarks made by the Hon.
Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, at a gathering of some southern gentlemen in
Washington, recently: You ask me what the north will do in case the south
should attempt to dissolve the Union on the election of a republican president.
Gentlemen, I have no fears that the South will attempt anything of the kind. In
such an event, however, I will frankly tell you what I would do if I had the
disunionists to deal with. With Cassius M. Clay to act with me, I would take up
my line of march and make my appearance among the disunionists with an armed
force that would make no child’s play of the matter, and I would not return to
the seat of government until I had strung up every disunionist in the land,
wherever he might be found—either north or south—and quarters would be shown to
no individual nor state until they had repented in sackcloth and ashes. That is
what I would do with the disunionist, so help me God!
Mr. Wade also
expressed his views on home protection as follows:—I heartily concur with the gentleman
from Pennsylvania in saying that we should have a protective measure of some
kind. The more I think of the matter, the more am I convinced that we must
inaugurate some protective system, in order to save us from bankruptcy and
ruin. That there should be a change of some kind in this respect, none ought to
dispute. The most prosperous days of this republic were, when we were living
under a protective system. Not only does the Iron interest of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey require protection, but also are the manufacturing interests of
every kind, throughout the county crying aloud for a national shield to our
home industry which ought to be headed.
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