Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-30
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MONDAY MORNING, - MAY 80
ABOLITION STATE CONVENTION,
A Loud Howl from Chase's Friends
How Chase was Slaughtered In
Committee.

passed into history. The record of its pro-
ceedings is before your readers. Marked by
no unusual incident, there was but little else
to do than get through the routine business
and adjourn; and this was done in the most
exemplary manner. lfany disturbing ele-
ment existed, the adroit management of ex-
perienced politicians who shaped its course,
and marked out its line of action, effectual-
ly suppressed it. The Convention had no
offices to dispose ofthatappealed particular
ly to the greed Of any man doing business
more than a street grocery, and as for the
honOrs-well, twenty years hence how
many of the men and women of that day
will remember who was made Secretary
of State, or Attorney General, or Supreme
Judge, in the year of grace, 1864?
But the men and women of that day will
wonder that Convention of the loyal men
of Ohio met and adjourned without recog-
nizing i'm some marked manner the services
to his country, of Ohio's most distinguished
citizen, the Honorable Salmon p. Chase
What had Mr.. Chase done, they will ask,
that the people of his own State should fail
to make mention, by resolution or other
wise, of his name? We may as well put
the facts on record ''for the benefit of pos
terity."
The sense of the Convention was decided
lY Ill ldNOT vi UilC IC-ClCCblOil VI WI. lIlI-
coin to the Presidency. OF that there is no
doubt. The Endorsement of the resolution
nominating him for that honor, could not
have been marked by more enthusiasm
Had Mr.. Chase been candidate for that
office before the Baltimore Convention, the
reticence OF the Ohio Convention, touching
his personal and political merits, would
have been understood. But Mr.. Chase de-
clined long ago, and is counted out of the
field. Neither the Cleveland nor Baltimore
Conventions will take up his name, unless
unable to agree upon Mr.. Lincoln or ''any
other man." There is not the least doubt,
then, that complimentary resolution
would not only have been appropriate, but
it would have met the hearty, unqualified
appreciation of the delegates.
To understand this matter, it is necessary
to go behind the record of proceedings in
convention. Upon the appointment of the
committee on Resolutions it was moved
and carried that all resolutions be submit
ted to the committee, without debate and
acted upon by them. When the committee
was in session, and while the resolutions
were vet in embryo, NJ. z. Gaddis, of the
Second District, offered the following foI
consideration:
'Resolued, That Ohio regards, with proud
approval, her distinguished citizen, Salmon
P. Chase, who, during the most gigantic
civil war ever known, has so CONT oiled and
directed the finances Of the nation, as tc
supply the necessities of the contest, sus.
tain the credit of the Government and pre-
serve the healthful condition of the curren
cy and business of the people,"
Do you see anything inappropriate ol
undeserved in that? Do the people of Ohio
refuse to say so much for man, upoT
x.,haca chonldarc than fhngQ nf Qny
man, in the Cabinet or out of it, rests the
gigantic proportions of this struggle, anG
upon his financial ability, as much as upor
the bayonets of our glorious soldiers, de-
pends the salvation of the Union? Pu
that to vote in the Army of the Cumber
land, or the Army of the Potomac-any'
where where there are blue-jackets t
vote or fight, and the response would be one
long and loud affirmative.
Mr.. Gaddis supported the resolution in al
earnest speech. G.. X. Watson, from thu
Ninth District, opposed it. as did the Hon
John A. Bingham, of the Sixteenth District
Hon. .Abner Kellogg, of the Nineteenth
District, spoke warmly in favor of report
ing the resolution to the Convention fol
adoption, and Hon. Peter Odlin, of the
Third, made brief speech, and by all ac'
counts, pertinent one in its behalf Geo
Keck, of the first District, was neither flesl
nor fowl, and while not individually oppos
ed to it, didn't really think it would be pol.
itic, all things considered, to indorse any
man in the Cabinet. Mr.. E. Archbold, o.
the Fifteenth District opposed it OF
grounds that should admit him to the
Warmest embrace of the cOpperheads. II
wouldn't do to indorse Mr.. Chase because
"greenbacks" are going down, and maybe
in year or SO, will fail entirely, and ther
the party would be held responsible fol
this paper issue! go5a 3.l
There were but twelve of the committee
present during the discussion on this reso-
luton, and counting noses, they stood sever
to five for the resolution, but the minority
cOntrived to get subcommittee appointed
to draft the resolutions, and they set dowr
upon Mr.. Gaddis' bantling, and squashed i
irredeemably. gr
Hon. John A. Bingham was one of thi.
wheel within wheel, and has the honor,
believe, of drafting the resolutions, which
in the main, are unexceptionable. The
resolution with regard to the part Ohio has
taken in the war, originally referred only
to her representation in the field. Mr.. Cad
dis amended it SO as to include the WORD
Cabinet, coupling Herewith Mr.. Chase's
name. 1t will hardly be credited that there
was on that committee men SO beggarly-
spirited that they opposed even an Indirect
compliment to Mr.. Chase, and desired To
strike out or keep out even the allusion to
the Cabinet, it being agreed to omit Mr.
Chase's name altogetherl But Mr.. Gaddi;
made sturdy fight ON this point-to his
everlasting credit--and it was finally SC
amended as to gingerly and remotely damn
the Secretary of the Treasury with fainI
praise. am not surprised that Mr.. Arch.
bold should have expressed the hope that
the action of the committee should be re-
garded with the sacred privacy of the pro-
ceedings of Q grand jury. If he has not q
backyard where he can conveniently retire
to blush, he should rent o coal-hole tor the
purpose. ~ d
The fact Is, that there is shoal of Office
seekers hereabonts to-day, who are watch
ing for the crumbs from the masters table
and who, with less spirit than the dogs
would not lick the sores Of Lazarus lying
at the gate, If thereby the leavings of the
lord of the house should 60 to anotherman
There are aspirants for Congress, who ex.
pect Administration favor, and who viii
solicit Executive patronage for those who