Their joint coming imparted confidence and strength to the contest for free soil, and was a powerful re-enforcement to Mr.Seward, Mr.Chase, and Mr.
Hale, who represented the distinctively anti-slavery sentiment in the Senate.

The fidelity, the courage, the ability of Mr.Wade gave him prominence in the North, and were a constant surprise to the South.

He brought to the Senate the radicalism which Mr.
Giddings had so long upheld in the House, and was protected in his audacious freedom of speech by his steadiness of nerve and his known readiness to fight.
Henry B.Anthony entered the Senate on the 4th of March, 1859, at forty-four years of age.

He had been Governor of Rhode Island ten years before.

He received a liberal education at Brown University, and was for a long period editor of the _Providence Journal_, a position in which he established an enviable fame as a writer and secured an enduring hold upon the esteem and confidence of his State.