The two classes of men composing the Republican party were equally zealous in support of the principles that led to the political revolution of 1860, but it was not easy to see what would be the result of other issues which time and necessity might develop.
Benjamin F.Wade of Ohio had been ten years in the Senate when the war broke out.

He entered in March, 1851--the immediate successor of Thomas Ewing who had been transferred to the Senate from the Cabinet of Taylor, to take the place of Thomas Corwin who left the Senate to enter the Cabinet of Fillmore.

Mr.Wade was elected as a Whig--the last senator chosen by that party in Ohio.

His triumph was a rebuke to Mr.Corwin for his abandonment of the advanced position which he had taken against the aggressions of the slave power.

It was rendered all the more significant by the defeat of Mr.Ewing, who with his strong hold upon the confidence and regard of the people of Ohio, was too conservative to embody the popular resentment against the odious features of the Compromise of 1850.
Mr.Wade entered the Senate with Mr.Sumner.