Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-02-27
9 The G Chave-Lincoln war.


That Chase Circular, emanating from
Senator PoNERoY, as Chairman of the Ma
/ tionaI Executive committee, has proved
y quite bomb-shell in the Lincoln Aboli-
tion camp. The New York Times, a LIN
COLIN organ, returns daily to the charge,
and protests against the spirit of the move-
ment in favor of CHASE as ''unworthy the
cause and ffaught with nothing but mis-
Z chief" Referring TO the assertion in the
Circular that seven were the reelection of
Mr.. LINCOLN desirable, it is practically i'm
possible against the union of influences
that will oppose him, the Times says that
. IL this means anything, 1t means threat
If Mr.. LINCOLN is renominated by Ma
tional Convention, there will be bolt
which will have the effect Of dividing the
party, and defeating LINCOLN. The Circu-
lar is pronounced to be notice In advance
by the .Chase Committee' of their purpose
to turn against the nomination, unless it
should be made to their liking.
The Times is exceedingly anxious to Sc
cure the favor Of the Radicals for DIR. LIN
coLS It repels with indignation the charge
in the Circular that he has "a manifest ten
dency toward compromises and temporary
expedients of policy" and cites his Eman-
cipation and one-tenth Amnesty proclama-
tions to prove that he is thoroughly radical.
1t insists that the most thorough Abo-
litionists ought to support LINCOLN, and in
proof that many of them are doing it, re-
p fers to the late Abolition State Convention
in Maryland, which resolved that it was ain
favor of the entire and immediate abolition
of slavery in that State and the States in re-
bellion, and opposed to any organization of
State Governments in those States which do
not recognize the immediate abolishment of
slavery as a condition precedent" and, at
the same time, instructed its delegates to
& q the National Convention to ''vote for ABRA-
. HAM LINCOLN first, last and all the time"
Fer contra, GREELEY's paper, the Tribune,
a CHASE organ, of Feb. 23 has long and
elaborate leader opposing the denomination
- of LNcoLN.s After referring TO the call
for an Abolition National Convention at
Baltimore early in June, GREELEY says:
The canvass is therefore fairly opened in
defiance of our wishes. And the renomina-
tion of President Lincoln has already been
urged by Legislatures and conventions of
several States, while the same movements
I; in favor Of Gen. Fremont and Gov. Chase,
respectively, have more recently solicited
public attention. N8
At the close of his article GREELEY has
&ha foIlo,r;ro, a;o,n;t;oant santonoas ;,d;oot.
ing a decided hostility to the denomination
of LINCOLN for another term:
The practical question, then, is this, Has
Lincoln proved so transcendently able and
admirable President that all consideration
of the merits, abilities and services of others
should be postponed or foreborne in favor
of his reelection. We answer it in the
negative. Heartily agreeing that Mr.. Lin
at all demonstrated that Gen. Fremont, Gen.
Butler or Gen. Grant can't do as well.
We freely admit Lincoln's merits, but we
insist they are not such as to eclipse and
obscure those of all the statesmen and SOL
ders who have aided in the great work Of
saving the country from disruption and
overthrow. And If others have done as
well in their respective spheres, then we
hold that the genius of our institutions in
the salutary one term principle which mas
been established by the concurrence of each
of our great parties and by the action of
the epeople overruling either in turn, ,counsels
the choice of another from among our emf
nent Unionists for President from and after
March 4, 1866. Such are our convictions.
We place them before our readers in COM
pany with those of Legislatures and con-
ventions which have indicated an opposite
conclusion, and ask that judgment be rem
dered in accordance with the prepOnderance,
not Of authority, but Of reason,
Thus far GREELEY's position appears as
one Of opposition to LINCOLN merely. But
in his paper Of the next day he renews the
war, insists that the Chase circular isa gen.
uine document, and pounces upon the tele-
graph as having been .'nsed unwarrantably
to convey the impression that the Circular
had been repudiated, and thus to destroy
Its influence. ilss ~ g
GREELEY then gives brief sketch Of Mr..
CHAsE's political career, eulogizes him as
'an outright Abolitionistn and concludes
that 'shis friends have perfect right to
present his name" in connection with the
Presidency, and that it is 'entitled to at
: least a respectful and generous considera-
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