...lavery men and Whigs. From John Davis, his own colleague, he could expect nothing but personal civility. In sentiment, if not often in action, he could count on a certain measure of sympathy from Seward , who was, however, politic and bent on maintaining his position as a Whig leader, and from Wade, who was sincere in his antislavery convictions as well as fearless, but who failed in steadiness and ...