Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-18
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CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.
HIS Regard fer an OAth 10 support me
Constitutions OF the UnIted state.

HIS Regard fer an Gath 10 support tic
Constitution OF the Waited states..
To the Editors Of the Uni0n and Dispatch
Themisehievous and unprineipled move
nent which endeavors 10 impose upon the
faDcied verdRncy Of the people Mr.. Sal
mon p. Chase as an orthodox Democrat,
and maTYelopsly proper man to be the
Democratic standard bearer in the next
Presidential contest suggests some inves-
LEGATION OF his record. His work has
already been well initiated BY the tren-
chant aud searching expose Of John
Hampden, ia your issue of Sunday. 1T
becomes Tei1nessee 10 inquire into his an
teoedonts, inview Of the fact that Il is p1b.
licly claimed by his partisans that a ma
jOrity Of the delegates frem Tennessee to
the National Convention are for him for
President, and that the ] Ol4ns0n movement
ID the late State Convention meant Chase
and nothing else. So shameless a decep-
ton can scarcely be- possible, bot for fear Of
results ia these strange times which may
prove even SO base q purpose 10 have been
accomplished at Nashville, il may be well
to STIR up the people TO such q significant
reprobation of the meas and the pro-
posed end as will alarm these eonspirators
and defeat their wicked schemes.
propose 70 give only small part of
his record at this time. ! have much more
of the same kind for future use.
When Mr.. Chase took his seat In the
Sentate in 1849, that body had not been
contaminated before by the presence of a
Senator Of his dangerous and revolutionary
school Of politics. It is true Mr. Hale, who
had been elected previously, assemilated
somewhat TO Mr.. Chase, but he had not
progressed 50 far as 10 be classed with the
present Chief Justice in his advanced idea
Of Radical politics. Judge Chase was
what was known in those days as Liberty
party mar" which ranked him with |
Phlllipa, Garrison, Theodore Parker and
the worst OF the licentious and unbridled |
politicians Of that time. When he came to |
take the oath 10 support the Constitution, |
the breath OF the Senate seemed to be in |
suspense, as It contemplated the spectacle |
Of an intelligent and perfectly composed |
man, deliberately calling upon his Maker /
TO witness a vow 10 support the Constitu- |
ton which he predetermined to disregard. |
Judge Chase had, however, fixed him
self up few years before to unseat this
blasphemous Inconsistency i'm a way the /
manner " "HiSh We presently snail see.
A convention was held in the city of |
Buffalo in 1913, at which the following
resolution was unanimously adopted, with
Salmon z. Chase as Chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions:
Resolved, That we hereby give it to
be distinctly understood by this nation and
the world, that as Abolitionists, consider
ing that the strength of our cause lies in
its righteOusness and our hopes for it in
our conformity to the laws Of God, and
our support Of the rights of man, we owe
to the Sovereign Ruler. Of the Universe, as
a proof Of our allegiance to Him in all
our civil relations and offices, whether as
friends, citizens, or as public functionaries
sworn 10 support the Constitution Of the
United States, 10 regard and treat the third
clause OF that instrument, whenever APP
piled in the case Of fugitive slave, as ut
terly null and void, and, consequently, as
forming no part Of the Constitution of the
United States, whenever we are called
upon or sworn to support it."
This is the way that he regards an oath
to support the organic Law of the land
And yet this man is commended to Ten
nesseans, by some Of her recreant sons,
to be President Of the United States. Some
Of her delegates, it is whispered, will be-
tray her to his support. SHELBY