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• I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

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• But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

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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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• As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.

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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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• I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

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• I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

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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.

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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.

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• 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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• 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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• I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

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• The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

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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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• Well, what are you going to do about it?

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  Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

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• Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

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Benjamin Franklin Wade (17)

Birth:	27th October, 1800
Death:	2nd March, 1887
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Benjamin Wade was a United States Senator during Civil War reconstruction known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans. Had the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 led to a conviction at trial in the Senate, he would have become the 18th President of the United States.

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