Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-28
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-, i - lFor the Ohio Statesman.l. sr.e,
q. p. Chase and his Late Trip to
North Carolina-~Chief Justice''
= of the Supreme Court of the UNI
ted States-ss Heaven Save the
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. Jefferson Davis Is no more confined like
2 a ielon-the military rule of civil war hav-
ing ceased, and the military despotism OF
the Rump Congress Seing now in force in
the late Confederate States, the Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme CCurs concluded to
take a trip to North Carolina. He goes
there, he says, to hold term Of Court-he
does so hold his Court, but previous to
opening court he makes a regular old style
demagogues stump speech. What more
could be expected from such a Judges
man who considered himself honored by
being escorted about Wilmington by the
,off-seouring, of the population, composed
mostly of negroesl Impatient indeed must
this man be of popalar applause. when he
so sinks the high position he occupies to
catch therpalsing smile of the lowest bi-
speds in the land.
That part of his decision which relates to
the payment of interest upon. a claim due
before the war. from q citizen of the South
to one in the North. we pass without COM
ment, as it Is simply q matter upon which
men may disagree The Judge
seems to forget entirely his antecedents.-
Having forgotten his present position in
his rage tor further power, he likewise for
gets that once he favored the dissolution of
the Union. on account of his hate for the
South, and later still opposed war through
motives of policy. Whether it be through
natural weakness or a desire to engender
renewed strife with the defenseless meu-of
the South, we are unable to say, but his
course is directed in that way that can only
lead to amending war;, His ideas are evil
,dently confused, Or he thinks that his
own ~ record is no more remem-
.bered., He stamps. - beneath his feet
the commonest, principles of humani-
ty and the teachings of the common law,
no less than the law of nations. He seems
TO think that now his '.fruit issa-ripening''
that a little more bluster,-a little more
blarnv, a few more negro jubilees. and the
day is woni Has Judge Chase forgotten,
or have his friends forgotten, the long di-
rected5 efforts of himself and the Abolition
party to bring this once glorious Union to
an untimely grave? Can't they all by a
very slight stretch of the powers of mem
ory recall their raliyiug song when they
pealed their lnudest notes IN melodious
numbers, singing, 81 10 SE
r77Eo Tear down the faunting lie. Hz fr8
- Half mast the starry flag, s.-i r---- o..
S4--- insult no sunny sky
.aaosdio w ith hates polluted rag. "1i = lai
judge Chase, upon his return to Wash.
.dingtons City, took the trouble to write out
'sforethe benefit of tie public, his decision In
5aeommeFcisl suit lately rendered in NORTH
qGarolirIa, and from that published report
we extract these paragraphs: stt .'
HEeaNor can we agree, he says, 'swith some
ipersons distinguished by ability and vir-
tues, who insist that enrebellion attainl
3the proportions and assumes the character
-ofcivil war, it is purged of it's treasonabl'
character, and can only be punished by th'
defeat of its armies and disappointment o
tits hopes, and the calamities incident to un
successful war. g.uig -1i'a3tsls 5dse -y
eisissThe courts have no policy. They car
only declare the avon what sound prin
ciple, then, can we sayjudicially, that tn
-leYying of war ceases to be treason whel
the war becomes formidable !? That though
war levied by ten men, or one Thousand
men. is, certainly treason, it is no longe
such when levied by ten thousand, or tel
hundred thousand; that the armed at
danger to tue Union, agu suppressed o.
slight exertions of the public force, com
,unquestionably within the constitutions
definition, but attempts by a vast combina
.ntien, controlling several States, puttini
great armies in the field, menacing wit
Immediate peril the very life of the Repub
Slic, and demanding immense efforts an
immense expenditures of treasure and bloc
for their defeat and suppression, swelle
beyond the boundaries of the definition
land become innocent in the proportion t
A., their enormity ?"s,;srs :. frs ~
This Judge of the highest Court ii
nancy known to our laws, here pervert
the principles laiti down in every book q
law that treats upon the subject. Let hin
turn to the horn book of law-the first pu
into the hands of every student-the Com
mentaries of the old English Tory, Justic
Blackstone, and he can there take wit
great propriety his first lessons in law
Blackstone says some authorities lay dow
the law to be that where usurpers have &c
possession of the throne it is treason to al
tempt TO dethrone themi Hale and Coke
and all the writer's upon Common law, an
every one among the International LAY
writer's, give the refntation direct to Sal
mon 2. Chase, and he ought to know it.
- The Judge says: The Courts have no pol
cy. Ii he had said s:this Court has n
policy" we should have fully agreed wit
the learned Chief Justice, and until it sha
have a policy that will tend to destroy til
efforts of those who would keep up thi
deadly animosity against the South, W
= will have no peace. tits against the law
general terms, for one man to kill anothe
q yet when the 'slong line comes gleamin
dust" those BY whose hands they fall al
5icalled heroes, hot murderers! So too, whe
treason raises It's bloody hand against th
power of Government, the penalty for tn;
crime Is death, bus when great armies
are found .,iu. the field'h the books all tie
us that it is ciuI iodr If the Judge wi
read more of the law and think less of tt
negro. he will learn that the policy of thes
Estates is for peace, and not war--that i
interest lies in preserving good fail
with the defenseless- and women
1.-The South, and not i'm Insulting brayadoe
or actual attempts to rob them of the lit
theynow have. Upon this subject of goo
faith, we quote from g Wheaton's Ell
-ments of International Law" page 27
T.'Grotius has devoted a whole chapter
Z his great work to prove, by the consentiI
testimony of all ages and nations, that GOO
faith ought to be observed towards an en-
my. And even Bynkershoek, who hol
5 that every other sort of fraud may
practised towards him, prohibits perfid
upon the ground that his character of en-
my ceases by the compact with him.
az allow of any kind of deceit" says
Aperfily alone excepted !-becd,lse when o
faith has been pledged to him he ceases to
an enenly''o Mr.. Wheaton adds to the fol
5egoing, "Indeed, without this mitigatio
the horrors of war would be indefinite
extent, and interminablein Duration" I
-apeople can see in the course of the Radio
running party an increasing disposition
,seomplicate, if possible, our terrible troub
with the South, and if the settlement
our lamentable condition is left with til
party, woe be unto US! BY an united eff;
they can be overthrown. BY a determir
tion upon the part of the people TO do it, t
work is donei Let us, then, resolve to t
umph; let us feel that without such triuml
the vandais who have wrought this RI
will make the effort to enslave the VIII
population. They tell us that revolutic