The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-11-21
RANDOM THOUGHTS Ne. a..
pH TINE EDITOR

Nearly every county paper Is now engaged in
President making Why should not the srAN-
DARD also give its opInion1 hereby nominate
Salmon P. Chase for President In 1868. / will
briefly give my reasons for so doing.
In the year 1870 became familiar with the
antl-sluvcry movement in this country. / took
the PhiiaRthropist, edited by DR.. Gamaliel Bailey
Of Cincinnati, and Zions Wafchman, edited by
La Roy Sunderland, together with other similar
publications. / thus became familiar with the
names Of the leading aboltloniss of that early
day. Prominent among them was DR.. w. H.
Brisbane, VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Arnold Buffom
and others. But the ablest man among them all
was Salmon r. Chase. In those days It cost
something to be an abolitionist. Well do / re-
member the murder Of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy,
at Alton, H., because he was an antl-slavcry
man. The Phi'aHthropi@ was succeeded by the
Cincinnati Herald and that Office was destroyed
by mob. and the type thrown into the Ohio
river. Cnssius NJ. Clay started an anti-slavery
paper In Kentucky, called the True american,
and 1t was mobbed. Mr.. Clay was sick at the
fce, and resolved alone 10 defend himself
Every ant-slavery man this country was In
imminent danger, and have been repeatedly
threatened with mob violence, in jackson coun-
ty. Nlnety-ni Inc In every hundred Of the Minis
terS Of the Gospel and nearly all the members Of
the churches, openly justified the putting down
Of fantl.slavery discussion by mob violence.
At that day there were about dozen antl-sa-
very men In Jackson county and not over ten
thousand In the State of Ohio. / do not believe
that Salmon P. Chase could have been elected to
the ofhco of constable In single township In the
State Of Ohio as late as the year 1874. men.
tion these things to show that Mr.. Chase was not
seeking popularity or Office, by the course he
pursued. lie was the same calm, dignided, hrm
antlslavery man then, under all these per0Scu-
tions aud threatened dangers, that he has been
ever since. Look at the noble sentiments ex-
pressed In his celebrated "slver Pitcher Speech I"
and compare them with what he has uttered
since that time A few despIsed negroes pre-
sented Mr.. Chase with silver pitcher as slight
token of their appreciation Of his efforts 10 their
behalf. On receiving It he made them speech,
| In which he took the same ground that he has
since taken, when In the exalted position Of U.
s. Senator, Governor of Ohio, Secretary Of the
Treasury, and Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States dag l
All know how Mr. Chase came to be elected to
the U. g. Senate in the year ls49, and those who
have read the Congressional Globe during his
term IN the Senate, must be struck with the OK
hlbiLIon Of his talents as statesman, and hs un-
swevlng devotion to principle. .t.f....
In the year 1855 Mr.. Chase was elected Cover
nor Of the State Of Ohio He was reelected In
the year 1857, In that year he made speech at
the old Court House In jackson, and that was
the Grst time ever saw him. did not have an
Introduction TO him then, and my personal ac-
qualntancO with him commenced more than q
year after that time. And from TINT date To the
present win speak ln my next. d. NJ