The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-08
JUDGE CHASE AND THE INDIE
PENDENT.
MIR. Chase Read Out of the Republican
Party.

The Independent, this week, "rccalls its
nomination of Mr.. Chase for tho Prcsi.
deucy." Tho article, which has several in.
torosting points, says:
A spectator in Washington Just now
finds that throo personages are Jointly chal.
longing aud bowllering the public atten.
tom FIRST, tho ChietJuStioe OF the United
States second tho President Of the High
Court Of Impeachment and third the llou
Samuel 7. Chase.
Ii the American people, at Judge Taney's
death, could have toresecu that his success
sur (whosoever he might br) would be callcd
to preside over trial for the impeachment
of the President OF the United States, such
as is now going forward, aud ovor u trial
of the President OF the Southorn Coafoder-
acy, such as will 20 forward next mouth
they would ave urged upon President Lin
cola, still more earnestly than they did, the
appointment of MIR. Chase as the ono man
who, above all others, was most sign,Sly
fitted for the high post and its great duties
But, though Mr. Chase took his supreme
seat amid the plaudits os half the nation
yet, cver since ho was gOwned, thcro has
been an Impression on tho public mind that
ho would rather he of the bench than on
il. 1t is remarked of MIR. Chase moro fire..
quenily than OF any other statesman, that
he is ambitious for the Presidency.
For years past. We have earnestly and
often advocated Mr.. Glasses nomination tc
! the Presidency. This advocacy now euds
! Without creditng the fables of tho scan
dial mongcrs who say that MIR. Chase ha,
abandoned tho party of which he WAS lately
the chief ornament, and has practically
joined the Democracy, we arc, nevertho
| less, constrained to say tina. tho Republ
can party can no longer, with propriety
look to Mr.. Chase to be one of its leaders
and least OF all, to be its chief. A shorI
time ago, we thought that the greatest gif
which this journal could offer to the coming
Chicago Convention was Mr.. Chase's illus
trious name. We now have reason to be
lieve that Mr.. Chase woull not accept th,
! nnuhiirau nnminatiOu If il were rendered
! We have equal reason To believe, also, tina
ho would accept the Democratic numiua
ton, if it could DO rendered on n platform
not Inconsistent with bis well known view
of negro suffrage. No ono who knows tn
man will expect him ever to change. mod
i(y or compromise his lifelong and incradi
cable convictions in favor of liberty, jus
tce and political equality. SoomnIy ant
earnestly he holds now, as he has held al
ways, to the civil aud political rights of al
American citizens, without distinction o
sex, Nor have we any doubt that he vii
remain, in his own judgment, sacredly true
to those great and high convictions during
the rest of his life. But as the fact is now
evident that Mr.. Chase no longer links hil
political future with the Repubican party
wo feel that in the conduct of u ourna
which has long been conspicuously know
as ono of his unvarying supporters, W,
have no right any longer to solicit the Re
publican party to uuturl at their head Tho
banner of his name
Of course these remarks are not de
signed to state the position, or indicate tn,
views, or hint the purposes of Mr., Chase
an Office which we have neither authority
nor knowledge, nor wish, nor right to as
sumo but solely for the sake of honorabl
informing the Republican party that thi
Journal uncquivocaly recalls its long main
tanned nomination of Mr.. Chase for tn
Presidency.
If at this late day II were not wholly use
less to substitute another name, it nigh
he tho name OF Charles Sumner, or Schuy
Ter Cofax, or Ben. Wade, or General But
Her. But, Of course, the Chicago Convention
will go peIl-nell for General Grant. Never
theoss, we shall go on dreaming our day
dream of the happy day when only a grea
statesman shall be eligible to preside owe
the Great Republic.