New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-24
TINE CHASE Circular.

The telegraph on Monday afternoon brought
us from Washington the perplexing report that
! The National Republican of that city "says tht
POmeroy letter in favor of Chase for the Presi
dency is a hoax" Having now The RPgIiica,
Of that evening before Us, we extract from i
the paragraph whereon this statement Wa
founded--as follows:
"a HoAx--we are authorized by a distinguished
friend Of Mr. Chase 10 state that the Secretary Of the
Treasury denies having any knowledge OF the Crc9-
Pomeroy Chairman Of the Executive National Com
mittee' We doubted the genunenoss OF the document
when we first saw IT, and now we are glad 20 be able 70
state that the whole thing IS hoax Tho CoppeTieGd
papers that appear TO rejoice over il have had joke
practIcCd upon thcm."
SO it appears that it is not Senator Pome-
ROY, but distinguished friend Of Mr.. Chase"
who is The Republicans authority; and even he
does not say that Mr. POmerOy had disclaimed or
repudiated the Circular but that "he Seentary
Of tie Treasury denies any knowledge" Of that
document. Who imagined, or fancied, or could
have conceived, the contrary There was no
assumption, no pretense, that Mr.. Chase had
any knowledge Of the Circular; ard how this
statement "by distinguished friend could
have been interpreted to "authorize" any one
to pronounce the Circular "hoax," is not
We thiDk the telegraph was used
unwanantably to convey the impression that
the Circular had been repudated, and thus to
destroy its influence.
Gov. Chase was ON ovowed and earnest
Emancipationist many years ago, when to be
such was the xpectation-almostth the
further participation in the re-
sponsibiliies and honoIs of public life. No orc
could then have nationally supposed that an
outright Abolitionist--as Mr. Chase avowedly
nationally hope to be seriously
even for the Goyernorship Of Ohio
much less for tho Presidency Of the United
States. And Mr.. Chase was never of those who
fegn indifference to the good opinion of his
or the charms Of exalted station
Never affecting contempt for Power, he was
YET faithful in Powers despite to bis conyic-
5ions-to Principle and to humanity.
When the population Of the Missouri Com
pact involved in the passage Of the Nebraska bill
dissolved old parties and electrified the North,
Mr.. Chase was one Of the earliest to unite in the
Republican movement. Before other OF our
eading statesmen had ceased to hope for q
Of the Wing party, he had been
chosen the first Republican Governor Of Ohio
BY over Fifteen Thousand majority. After
serving four years Os Governor, he had inst been
.eturned for six years to the q. 8. Senate when
be was fortunately called by President Lincoln
% the trying post of director Of the Finances
Turing our National struggle with slayeholding
treason. His successful discharge of that high
rust has been the marvel Of our recent history
the most difficult achievement of tho century.
Such triumphs do no. dazzle the vulgar gaze like
those Of the cQnquering warrior; but they de-
nand loftier and rarer abilities and more
absorbing devotion. History, in distributing its
Awards to those who preserved our country
rom disruption and overthrow, will accord
Ugh honors to him whose financial achieve
nents rendered possible tho maintsnancel