Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-07-08
Wendell Phillips Opinion of
Chief-Justice Chase.
From the Anti-slavery Standard. !

land hints the same truth in the prov
erb-''A Haggis Pudding. God bless
her, can charge down hill There's
never any trouble in getting down
ward when man longs for it. Among
our wishes there is always one Aa,
ron's rod which finally devours all the
rest.
Mr.. Justice Chase wishes to be an
abolitionist, but he longs to be Presi-
dent. This longing Is his Aaron's
rod. He wishes to advocate univer.
sal suffrage and payment of the ma
tional debt in gold. But he longs to
outbid Pendlcton before the Demo
cratic Convention. See how reluct-
emily, like the jew under King Johns
pinces, he parts with his teeth to
save his gold; parts with his profes-
sions (he never had any principles) to
save his chances Of nomination. Al
the outset, what lavish waste of ex-
cellent Indignation, cn the part of his
friends, when some tell-tale CORES.
pondents limited the possibility of his
accepting a Democratic nomination
Is thy servant dog that he should
do this thing?h But all that virtuous
horror could not rub out of the public
thought that damned spot" So, in
due time, the Cincinnati Gazette states
with Chase-like, ponderous, semi-ofi-
cial dignity, that doubtless Mr.. Chase
would accept such nomination of the
Democratic party would come to him
and plant itself on his platform
Then his tempted, restless virtue
waits awhile to see what the party
will do. That lazy, good for-nothing
manifests not the least disposition to
wash and put on clean garments
Precious time is running fast to July
4. SO somebody is found, or mag
ined, to give the impatient Judge an
opportunity to come down little in
his price He lets it be known that
if universal suffrage can be secured
and gold payment pledged, he will
inject the Democrats with a recogni-
tIon of State sovereignty and a grant
of universal amnesty. For awhile
this is a standing offer. But the keen
instinct of the Democratic rank and
/ file saw negro hid under this nice
meal. Spelling negro with two gs is
the Alpha and Omega of American
Democracy. Mr.. Chase might have
learned that gospel of Colonel Bent
on, dozen years ago, and found it,
besides, enlarged upon in the epistles
of Nasty"
/ Slowly the truth dawned on him.
1t was clear the party could never
come up to him. What then p
Cousin said the Duke Of Bedford
to the drunken Duke Of Norfolk. "
ing in the mud, Cousin, | can't lift
YOU up; but / will do the next best
thIng-Iu lie down with you" So,
now we have the last bid Pendleton
and Chase neck and neck.
The platform, with which Mr. Chase's
Private Secretary is authorized to
tempt rebeldom, north and south. is
l. No mention of finance. Bel.
mont and Brick Pomeroy's guns both
spiked.
>. Universal amnesty demanded,
pledged, as a necessity.
3. Universal suffrage recommended
O. to the States
II CCLA = ISL OAAe' ! = Ci'o VI uNOA SC-
nounced
Now, Deacon Bascom, of the Corn
ers, if you and Postmaster Nasty
want the play Of Hamlet with that
part omitted-Chase without his rec
ord-the big wig without the Judge
here you have it.
Reputation, IS it, to pay in
greenbacks? Well, what is it, then,
to repudiate ones whole life? Gen
tlemen OF the Fourth of July Conven-
tion, if you viii nominate Chase there
Will be no need to horrIfy the world
by mentioning 'repudia ton in your
platform. Y our candidate, himself,
/ is such an embodied reputation as
will satisfy Brick Pomeroy, Rhett,
/ Pendleton, and all their followers.
Men say the Chief Justice is selling
his soul for this empty chance Of nom
ination. No, gentlemen, he has no
soul to sell. That went to its place
long ago, when Margaret Garner went
mp from beneath the gurgling waters
Of the Ohio to bear witness against
American Democracy and American
pietv- as she had seen them IN the
bastard face Of the Ohio governor
Since then only "the empty sheath Of
a man" has haunted the Senate cham
bers, benches and Presidential con-
ventions as dead misers haunt the
: treasure for which their souls were
sold.
If Mr.. Chase could have pledged
the Democratic party to Republican
principles lie would have rendered no.
bic service TO the cause of Humanity
We have longed, for the last FIVE
years to see an honest and earnest
man (Mr. Chase is neither Of these)
/. thus lead the party upward, and SO
Danish the negro question forever
from our politics. The theory tina.
: underlies the American Democracy
which triumphed with Jefferson II
1901, is the true American idea, and
the essence of equality, liberty and
fraternity. But the present Demo
, cratic party IS the monstrous child o
: negro hate and love of plunder-
Death is its only cure. In its rank;