New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-19
cHIEF-IusTICE CHASE.

COuespoudence Cincinnati Commercial
NEwYORK, Nov II, 1861;
This gentleman came to New York last week,
for the purpose VI meeting hs daughters, on their way
o S@ E Eay su fS as The HS World and other Journals
have made his name prominent ia connection "itn ois
OF seeing him. and the curious anxious TO hear what he
had 10 say touching the late disasters In the pOca ed
Judge Chase, you well aware Is more OF states
man that politician and was known TO be smooth
with his enemy and polite with his friends He spoke
had no reason to be alarmed ashamed OF his utter
ancee. He said that there was nothing alarming or
disheartenng in the late defeats The old Wing party
the Democratic party and the old Free Soil party had ALL
in their tme suffered defeat, without IN any way impair
that pares were not as necessary free people any
part Of constitutional government Inat inc Only u
TO be found in the grave questions now at issue
They went not only to the foundations Oh tile
Government itself, but carried shame or good re-
mite in their solution This very fact should make us
hopeful and save MS from absurd panic Inc American
people will not abandon an 9rgan1n0n aa mr. IN
the future, when, by 50 DOING cOniesses 10
shame that Will eng 90 Som US measure 70 the
ing confidence in strength that made US 70
UTovdetai that this evil had come to now when
loss was a barren victory TO our enemies Next year,
when the real contest came ON, the American people
would awaken TO the danger and trust would be reposed
heretofore. in the hands or the thoughtful the pru
dent and. above all, the patriotic
III il little singular that who has been before
the public much Salmon T. Chase should DC SO ms
understood He is IN OF the word what Is popu-
lnrly understood as Radca-that IT, man whose feeE
ings run away with his better Judgment and who goes 70
extremes more from impulse than conviction. Judge
Chase is by temperament, Conservative ana II ne ad-
vocates extreme measures, It is the result OF purely
mental process Thus, for example, when abolltloDlsm
was a disgrace, and AbOlitiODist was regarded as
half crazy fanatic limited number Of men were OF that
organization from OF feeling Their good hearts
moved them pity for the slave. MI Chase Joined TINS
little band and became prominent nut was careIh 70
explain that while he commiseraed the condition OF the
unfortunate negro he moved 10 active opposition 10
the exclusive class Of white aristoeats who owned the
negro and threatened the liberty OF all. -.
xyitb Gu1m II
deal OF him at the time mention. have not been lnti-
mate with him OF late years. and cannot therefore speak
authortatvely OF his views. But Will venture 70 say
that Won are nearer right in your estimate OF MS present
noticol status than Senator Wade who so readily calls
MIN Radical OF his own school VIII go further; ana
without fear OF contradiction from those who Know
him best that instead Of siding with stevens sumner,
and Wendell Phillips In their demand Tor connscatlon
and hanging he after securing equal political rights 70
the Qroes Of the South, favors Cancellation ana WOuo
ea Nv the kudest TO heal the wounds OF war
and mako OF Southern people what has never yet een
done-cilzens OF common country, ana DrOtners O he
North While on this subject let me add that the otter
opposition Judge Chase comes OF his weknOwn purify
of character he President there would be an emu
10 fat Jobs ami national extravaganza That Is all