If the Impeachment trial had ended in the conviction of President Johnson, Mr.Wade would have succeeded him for the unexpired term, and from this coign of vantage would doubtless have secured the nomination for the second office.

The failure of Impeachment, though fatal to his success, did not dissipate the support which his long services and marked fidelity had commanded, without any of the adventitious aids of power.

He had entered the Senate seventeen years before and found there but four members devoted to the cause of free soil.

Seward, Sumner, Chase, and John P.Hale had preceded him.

Less favored than these senators in the advantages of early life, less powerful in debate, he yet brought to the common cause some qualities which they did not possess.