The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-18
Interriew EIth Judge Chase.

4 A correspondent, for whom the
Brooklyn onion vouches, writes to that
journal from Washington
"Soon after the Chicago Convention
had occasion 10 call again upon the
Chief Justice. Immediately on enter
in the room i was struck with his
strange manner, and the unusual as
pect of countenance with which he had
been accustomed to greet me. That
ldfgnified composure, that blandness
and serenity which ever rested upon
his manly presence, was gone. Nervous,
excited, almost pettish. l hesitated
making the occasion ofmy visit known.
and should more hesitate now had
not his subsequent course given full
warrant to the expression of private
| interviews. When great man fails
us-when the nations representative
separates himself from his friends /,
they have "a right to know fully and
exactly why. This Is just TO him and
fair to them. F Es ir+ u
During the Interview allusion was
very naturally made togthet Chicago
nomination, in the result of which he
expressed himself as having no inter
est. "He had been n Republican once;
but they had gone away from their
principles, and had read him out OF the
party. 1t had got new leaders. men
who opposed 1t while he himself was
done more for the party than regi-
ment ofthe men who had read him out
of the party. They had taken the reins
into their own hands; and now 1t mat
tered not TO him what they did,"
Seeing the direction in which his re-
marks were drifting, and wishing 10
avert the plunge down that precipice, i
interrupted nbrubtIy, "But Chief JUS
tice Chase can never be, anything else
than Republican, "I'tn not a Re
publican,' he said, coldly, and then.
qualifying, added, 81 am not partisan
at all. / was Democrat in my youn-
ger days. I was elected to the United
States Senate as Democrat, with anti
slavery, abolition principles" Still
Wishing to draw him back, / remarked:
"You had many friends who would
have supported you had you received
the nomination ut Chicago" To which
he replied Eyes, know i had, but
they have read me out of the party,
and have chosen another leader" ltaa
Againinterrupting,b eingdetermined
to force him to adhesion to the great
party of progress and freedom, said,
earnestly: !But you will mt go to the
Democrats; you can never act with that
talnly, with Its present animus-its
hatred of the negro; its denunciationo of
reConstructioni Its opposition to all
great and moral measures. You, hon
ored sir, could never find home feeling
and sympathy there. You could never
become co-worker with your lifelong
political enemies-men who hold
nothing in common with you. Most
Rssuredly, you would never consent TO
become the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency"
Without manifesting any unwilling
ness to continue the conversation. he
seemed throughout nervous and fidg-
ETY.. His copntenance had not that
cheerful, genial smile upon itthat used
TO play SO gracefully over the face OF
| the model American statesman. He
turned over file after nIe, and seemed
disconnected, as though he had poor
case and had failed to mako his point.
| Taking up paper from one side of bis
table and laying 1t down upon the
other, he said straightly:
'"1f they would accept OF my princi-
pies as their platform, i would. / shall
not give up my doctrine of equal rights.
They must take that. / shall hold to
the reconstruction measures: they are
right and constitutional. / drew up
the bill-the second one-though did
not have in the military. would have
managed the affair with civilian Off
GERS, aud called in the military as they
were needed. If could get them to
endorse these principles, that would
settle them forever"
/