The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-11-02
SENATOR cHAsE'S RECEPTION.

We are gratifed to observe that Senator
Chase is meeting with very fiattering receptions
at the various points he has spoken in this State
| and, if the newspapers of all parties friends
| and opponents, are to be believed, he is making
a deep sensation. AT Belvidere, one of the cham
pions of the Baltimore platform attempted to
| answer him, and learned that Senator Chase
was much larger or he himself was a much
smaller, man than he had estimated The Bel
videre Observation-Disclosures Democrat
saws of him:
" He is a man of great ability His manner
is calm and logical. AS we understood him, he
came TO the conclusion that the only practical
treatment of the slave question now before the
country, was its prohibition by Congress in the
Territories, and wherever it had jurisdiction We
have not heard a stronger or better advocate of
Jeffersonan Democracy and if he is what is
termed an abotionist, we only wish that eve
ry man in the country was SUCH"
At Galena last Saturday evening, the attend
ance to hear Mr.. Chase was large, notwithstand
ing the rain poured down in torrents The JEFF
tersonton, after reviewing his speech at length,
in a commendatory style, concludes
eve do not agree with Mr.. Chase in many
important particulars. We do not look or hope
for the restoration of the Missouri Compromise.
We do not believe, with him, that the day of the
deliverance of the country from the domination
of the saveocracy is near at hand but to the
purity of his motives, to the holiness of his ma
triotsm, the genuineness of his democracy tn
his commanding talent and his undoubted sin.
cerity we yield implicit credence. Would to
God that more of the public men of the country
could command from us the same eulogium;
would that the gradual encroachments of Slave
ry upon the integrity of the democratic senti.
ment had not seduced so many from allegiance
to the true faith; would that the rewards for
subserviency, offered by the three hundred thou
sand Shareholders had not diverted the original
policy of the government from the extension of
Freedom to the extension and perpetuation of
the cursed institution
We should not then mourn over sacred
rights trampled under foot should not then be
called upon to witness the daily outrages per-
petrated, in the name of Democracy, upon the
commonest and most obvious claims of human
lty; we should have no occasion to regret the
demagoguism that fills most Of the public
places in the nation, and that has prostituted
the most perfect Government known in the his
tory of the world, to depth of degradation
that despotisms rarely reach
I'VE do not believe with him in the lasting
efficacy of the present movement, that obliter,
ates all party lines, and seeks the attainment
of single object only.
+" As speaker, Mr.. Chase comes up fully tn
the expectations of those who, like ms. have
never heard him before. Deliberate and meth.
odical, logical in the arrangement of his aror.
ments, with hne person and agreeable voice,
ne makes an impression that the nearer carries
away with him, to become the basis of action
hereafter. Above all, his sincerity and single