The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-26

intend TO submit to an Antl-Slavery President
| or not, it is best to know exactly what he is to
be beforehand. Let the South have light. G.
MIR. CHASE.
A friend has sent us the following tribute to
the character of Mr.. CHASE, which has been
translated from the Ioca Stats Zeitung, a
German paper printed at Dubuque:
"Among the few American statesmen who
still retain character and principles, and who
have not sunk, like Douglas and other subor-
dinate stars, under the pestiferous air in Wash
ington, but have borne up with irresistible
power and frmness the banner of Freedom
and of Right, in accordance with the princi
Piles of Jefferson, against the overwhelming in.
nuence of the South, stands forth in particular
a man, whose name we would mention with
love and esteem. We mean S. P. CHASE, the
Soil party, and the energetic opponent of the
corrupt Doughfaces and Know Nothing fanatics
of Ohio.
"Amerca is rich in cunning, low politicians,
but poor, very poor, in statesmen of high prin-
cipe and consistency, with whom the feeling
of honor is not utterly extinguished, and who
have retained at least so much Difference for
the public veal as not to sacrifice downright
the interest of the State to their personal am
bition. Yes, if we view the entire mass of
American great men, so called, we shall hardly
be able to say of enc in twenty, what Henry
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is a mani"
"On the one side we find the great majority
Of the leaders of political parties entirely given
over to the interests of the Cotton Aristocracy
of the South-because, blinded by their un-
bounded ambition, they think they cap see the
means for gaining their object only in the i'm
mense power and the ruling influence of the
South--while on the other side we meet large
number of venal, characterless Office seekers,
men, too, at times, possessed of no inconsider-
able talents, who look upon American politics
as cow to be MIXED and as a means for
making money.
"Mr. Chase belongs neither to the one nor to
the other of these classes. lie is an ingenu-
Gus man, of tried probity, who knows no other
interests than those of the entire people. And
as of late his chances as Presidential candi
date of the liberal Anti Slavery party have been
largely spoken OF, we will furnish our readers
with brief sketch of his life.
"Mr. S. P. Chase was born in 1908, in Cornish
New Hampshire. His father died in his infan-
cy; but the limited means of the family did
not prevent his getting classical education.
In his fifteenth year he entered a college in
Ohio, over which his uncle, Philander Chase,
presided. Two years later, he became MEM
Der of the junior class in Dartmouth College :;
and when he graduated, in 1926, in spite of his
youth and the fact that he entered later than
the rest he was almost at the head of those
who graduated with him. This indicates his
great natural talents, for he spent more time
in the reading of miscellaneous writings than
upon his studies. His classmates remember
Mr.. Chase as a pleasant companion, friend
Of sports, and as young man of the strictest
life, whose high feeling of honor would not al.
low him to yield to vices which proved the ruin
of others around him and it became the gen.
eral opinion among his associates, that he was
a man who would be sure to make his mark in
the world.
"After he left college, utterly penniless, and
relying upon his own exertions, he went to
Washington, where he found his uncle. then
United States Senator. For some time he oc.
cupied himself with the instruction of the chill
dren Of several prominent men, among others,
of the distinguished orator and jurist, William
Writ, in whose office he studied law. and in
whose family he was looked upon as a son. In
the spring of 1880 he passed his legal exami-
nation, and settled in Cincinnati, where he
commenced, and has ever since continued, the
practice of law. During the first two years of
his stay there, Mr.. Chase gave more time to-
wards perfecting himself in scientific attain
ments, than to his professional business and
he determined to do for Ohio what was then
being done for the State of Massachusetts by
committee Of the Legislature the
revision of the Statutes of the State. Some
three years later, he published his work in three
volumes; and its favorable reception by the
Legislature directed the attention of the people
upon him. His practice increased; but his
reputation as great jurist commenced with
his great speech, made by him in 1874, before
the Supreme Court Of the United States, in a
slave case, and which even Webster pronounced
to be masterpiece Of eloquence.
"During the six years of his Senatorship his
conduct has shed honor upon that body, both
in and out of the Senate Chamber. His speech
against the Douglas-Nebraska treason was the
most important and weightiest one that was
made at that session, in reference to the posi-
| ton he took in the treatment of that cues.
ton. His defeat before the so-called Demo
cratic Legislature of Ohio in the beginning
of last year, was certainly no want of appre.
citation of the merits of Mr.. Chase, but burn.
ing shame, which corrupt Democratic Legis
lature brought upon that party in Ohio. 1t is
indeed a pity, and may serve as character
istic portraiture of the Democratic party-thai
q man of the firm character, of the comprehen
sive knowledge of craftsmanship, and of the
rich experience, possessed by Mr.. Chase, should
be made to give place to routine party mar
ike g. Z. Pugh."