New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-05-28

The Cincinnati Commercial gives an interesting
recital, proving by clear evidence that Mr. Chase
when governor Of Ohio, resisted the execution Of
the fugitive slave act on State rights grounds, and
That he eHdeaV0red to preCipitate an armed col.
lision with the Federal government. These facts
have melted the New York World to investigate
Mr. Chase's record on the State rights question
and 1t finds so much corrObOrative evidence as to
Justify the assertion that few public men have ad-
hered to that deserted doctrine with more tenacity
than the chief justice. When he comes to sit
upon the trial of JEFF. Daxis, these papers, which
may be cited as authority, will at least be rich
reading. Perhaps he has changed his mind IN re-
gard to coercng the Federal government. 80 nave
ten thousand prominent men of the South, ana
good many at the North. But when the present
chief justice takes his seat to try Jeii DAVIS for
secession, the still small voice OF conscience IL "
whispered, will instil into his ears these words OF
scripture:
"Therefore, thou art inexcusable, man that
iudgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thOu
condemnest myself for thou that Judgest doest
According to the Cincinnati Commercial, Mr..
Chase
Advised President Lincoln to let the slave
States 90 rather than resort to armed coercion,
which was in violation of the State rights theory
he had preached all his life, from the case Of
Jones VS.. Van zandt, in McLean's reports in 1872,
to the celebrated Oberln fugitive slave rescue
cases. ex parte Bushnell, eX parte LangstOn, in
1859, reported in the ninth Ohio State reports,
when, as governor of Ohio, through the attorney
general, @. P. #olcOtt, he prosecuted writ of
habeas corpus to release prisoners, convicted Of
q violation of the fugitive slave law, from the
Cleveland iaI and openly declared that he would
sustain by force the decision of the supreme court
of Ohio against that of the supreme court of the
United States, even if it resulted in collision
with the general government-the full-blown Cal
houn doctrine Of nulliicatiOn.o
White the fugitiyh cases were pendinp. Cover
nor Chase also made n sneech in Cleveland in
which he used this language:
that as Iop@ yJ as the suite Of Ohio remains SOW
ereignty, and so long as I am chief executive The
process Of her courtss shall be executed. The pro-
cess of the United States courts must not be
sighted or resisted but 80 Iona as Tfepgesert The
soSe,,eigg,hy of ON, State mil lee H,dL The pro
cess Of 9,ii, State cours shall not be i1teJfe,ed
icitt. Jtt shat be fun enforced When
an, called unou Ia aSt i will act :,
This was snaton 10 4 rnaetirtg al yyIinb inRam-
matoTv harangues we're made by tIjddinps and
otbers aJyoesfirg t,e tearinr down of the nrisou
walls and the f9rcibe release Of the prisoners
Chief Justice swan concurred with the majority
Of tbe court IN pronouncipr the Federal law cOn-
stitntjonaI, and Governor Chase then succeeded in
displacinr him from the bench by preventing his
determination. But proof ends not here In Feb.
ruary lsg5 there was introduced bill for the
protection Of officers employed in the execution
Of the Federal laws, and its necessity was ey.
planned to have arisen out of resistance by State
authority Ia the execution of the fugitive slave
law Senator Chase led the opposition to that bill
and in the course Of his remarks said:
"Sir. This ia a bill for the overthrow of State
rights. II a bill to establish great central
consolidated federal government Sir, there was
once d senator from South Carolina on this floor
foo clear.siphted not to perceiye that the enact.
ment 6f A fugitive slave act was utterly irreconc
able with that theory of State rights which he, in
common with south Carolina,s greatest gtatesT1 an
professed t to believe il, and too noble and ingen
uous to deny the inconsistency"
| After n long State rights extract Mr. Chase
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