Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-08-23

it was a base precedent without a nsr-
allel; but what cared he for hoporabl.
actions, when as the reward of inHdelitv
to the people was high station for
himself. Without he had been paid,
and paid well, be never would have con-
sented to the iniquity, but being re-
warded, he became its willing instru
ment through his tools, Townshend and
Morse. And now, because we will not
support for the Chief Executive of Ohio
the man whose public birthplace was
in corruption and rsscality. who despis
ed and violated the enactments of your
legislature, who placed in power the
locofoeo party against which you war,
who will employ any means, no matter
what they may be, to advance himself
because we will not maintain man
whom you all despise. We are called
boilers. God grant We may always bolt
from such whoredom. But to the doe
uments, and here they are in profusion:
From the Ohio State Journal. April ls. le49
SALMON P. CHAsE-HIs TRIuMPHsI
The election of Mr.. Chase to the Sen
ate was an act worthy Of our State-of
the age in which we live. 1t was the
triumph Of principle.--Ashta5ula .Senti-
mel, March a."
{ "The election of Mr.. Chase to the
Senate was his own act. 1t was con-
ceived. planned and carried out by him.
self. There was not a whisper Of pub
! lie sentiment in its favor from Lake Erie
to the Ohio. Mr.. Chase came TO Co
lumbus at the opening of the session of
the General Assembly, Chase man
+ determined to be elected or TO defeat
the election. Having full view ofthe
/ position of parties in the Legislature,
he made selection of his tools with the
acuteness of one accustomed to the
choice Of human instruments. 1,I
"He not only secured his own election,
but he dictated, one by one, and pro.
vided with his own management. all the
means of accomplishing each prelimina-
ry step, by which the difficulties in his
path were swept away. He gave, by
his influence, to the locofocos, the or
ganization of the House. He secured
seats to Messrs. Pugh and Pierce, con-
trary to his own previously expressed
opinion. He held in his hand the CON-
mittee on Privileges and Elections, to
let in, or cast out, as best suited bis
plans and aided his prospects. Every
act OF his was subsidiary to bis own am
bilion. He talked of the interests of
the Free soil--he meant his own. He
harranged on the benefit OF electing a
Free Soil Senator-he intended that
none but himself should be that Sena-
tor. He professed great impartiality
between Mr.. Giddings and himself He
never proposed Mr.. Giddings to the
Free Sellers, except on such conditions (,
as would defeat him. y
"Mr. Chase not only laid the plan
which ensured his election, but aided in
carrying them into effect He not mere
ly settled the principle, but be labored
in the detail. He knew the blind and |
stolid character of the tools with which |
he wrought, too well to entrust them
with the fnesse Of the transaction. The
letters of DR.. Townshend 10 the Wing
Free Soilers of the General Assembly,
in which that miserable creature imag-
ined himself to be holding the balances
equally between the two abolition can
didates for the Senatorship. were writ
ten by Mr.. Chase--and in THEN light it
is easy TO see how impossible it was for
Mr. Giddings to be elected, Chase being
candidate. The most accomplished
disciple of Igenatius Toyola could not
have consigned bosom friend to the
stake with greater tenderness, nor given
more heartfelt and conclusive reasons
for comforting upon him the crown Of
martyrdom.
"The election of Chase worthy of the
State Whv, on what evil times have
we fallen? In the election of an aboli-
ton Senator for Ohio, an end that may !
Justify any means, however treacherous
and of bad example? Are the horrid
doctrines of the Jesuits to be re-enacted
in this country-to be engrafted on the
Buffalo platform and made part of our
code Of political morality? How has
our State fallen so vilely low that such |
are an honor to herr |,
"Who is it that does register upon the
pages Of her history so foul slander?
1t is not true. The election of Salmon
P. Chase to the Senate of the U. States
was disgrace. Every honorable man
feels it so. To feel thus it is not neces-
sary to be Whig. it only requires to
be man. -r..-- 4,
"And what principle triUnphs in his
1t is easy to play upon the
music OF high sounding words. and to
declare that to be done which exists on
ly in the mind Of the author Of the proc ,
lamation; but in this case where is the
reality? Have the principles OF the /
Free Soil--baTe even the interests ofthe ]
Free Soil party, been advanced by the
election Of Mr.. Chase? Who does he m
There is not q locofoco IN
The State who would not scorn to recog-ll IN
nize him as bis representative. Is there =
a Wing who would do otherwise? Het I
represents one tenth of the Free Soil !
as it called itself OF the Legislature, :
ind suek tsntki When the fallen an
gel, forcing his way through chaos and !,