The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-06-26
THEIR NEW LOVE.

them, the various candidates are using
the Democratic planks tor see-saw, and
lively sport it is-for lockers on in vi
emma" One day, up pops Hancock, furs
and feathers and epaulettes, rising so
high that the biped chanticleer loses
his gravity and tumbles off with spoiled
feathers. Then Chase mounts in his
place and the irrepressible niger /"
weighs him down, while Pendleton, with
the assistance of greenback imitation,
bounces so high that he gets a severe
bump as the weight of his sin brings him
in contact with the plank held solid by
his universal suffrage Uis-d-Uis. Then
all his fond sympathizers crawl out to
offer him the consultations of the lost
cause" and with hearty boost from
the bondholders, Chase, in all the glory
of draggled ermine, with the " Niger :"
holding on to Chase, and Chase to the
"nigger." in one fond embrace, rises
in beatific beauty and all the little Dem
era tic brood who are not pouting over
the discontinue of 'poor Penny" clap
their little democratic hands and pipe
their little democratic choruses, for
Chase (and the nigger) He stipulates
the conditions OF accepting the nomina-
love my dog" Mr.. Chase says, love
me, love my African brother" The
white men, and ,"the white mems
clubs" organized throughout the coun-
try, find their occupations gone" If
the affection of the Democratic heart is
to be wasted in wooing the negro, and
they .hoot the proposition-in summer
months. With all this, il is evident that
the name of Chase is being received
with favor. II is just as evident that
ambition for the Presidency has taken
| its fearful hold upon Salmon D. Chase,
and that to il he is sacrificing his integ-
rity and the friends of life time. In
| view of his present actions, how glar-
ingly guilty stands forth his record as
presiding officer of the Court of Impeach
ment 1t is not that he loves Democ-
racy that he affiliates with it; it is am
bition that inspires the action. he
urges the acceptance of universal suf
frage, because without it they stand moi
a shadow ofa chance of success. His
associates, supporters, personal and po-
'litical friends, all are sacrificed
I at the Hnholy shrine. Chase
was the Cincinnati lawyer who
in 81 argued the case of the fugitiv,
slave in that city and declared the &C
ton of Congress in requiring States tc
deliver them up was unconstitutional
He was counsel in the Van Zandt cas-,
in the Supreme Court, holding the sam,
views He signed the calls for the anti
slavery Convention at Columbus in a
and in Buffalo in '43, and wrote thei
platforms One portion of the Buffal,
platform, although not Mr. Chase's writ
ing, was :" to regard and treat the thirt
clause of the Constitution, whenever j
referred TO the case of a fugitive slave
as utterly null and void" He wa
Chairman of the Committee to prepar
the address of the Liberty Convention
in Cincinnatti in 45. that declare,
uncompromislng war against tn
} usurpation of the slave power" III
. and Ben Butler were associates in tn
Buffalo Liberty Convention in AS, and il
90 he prepared the platform of an in.
dependent Democratic party, adopted b
the Pittsburg Convention. He was tn,
vital power in the Senate in "a whel
: the Nebraska troubles occurred, an
Democrats are indebted largely to hin
+ for their defeat there,-and he is al
: enemy of an industrious lifetime. Yet
/, to-day, they are reduced to the necessi
: ty of favorably considering his nam
: for the Presidency. But he has re
: deemed himself; he has delayed tn
r trial of jeff Davis year after year; h
r has exulted over the defeat of impeacl
ment and he reads the La Crosse Dem,
c crdt. He was regarded by Republican
as too extreme partisan to be our car
didate and Loi the Conservative G
: Democracy find he is the chief stone o
! ! the corner. In case of his nomination
! ! what glorious time the Demi-Johnsol
press will have in harmonizing tn
white" and the black" and what
8 beautiful grey" it will make. w
wish them joy of their Abolition Candi
date.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge o
Good Templars, held their Convention
recently in Richmond, Ind. The fol
lowing officers were elected: r. w 6