The New Orleans crescent., 1868-06-23
An Interview w.,h Judge Chase.
THE TERMS ON WHICH HE WILL RUN FO
PRESIDENT.

THE TERMs on WHICH HE WILL RUN FOR
PRESIDENT.
correspondent for whom the BROOKLYN Union
vouches, writes to that journal from Washington
SOon alter the Chicago convention, had Occa-
sion TO call again on the chief justice. Imme-
diately on entering the room, j was struck with
bis strange manner and the unusual aspect OF
couDtenance with which he had been accustomed
TO greet me. That dignihed compOsure, that
olandness aBd serenity which ever rested so
gracefully upon his manly presence, was gone
Nervous, excited. almost pettsh. / hesitated
making the occasion of my visit known and
should more hesitate now had not his subsequent
course given full warrant to the expression of pri
vate interviews. When a great man fails us
when the nations representative separates him.
self from his friends, they have n right 10 know
fully snd exactly why. That is just to him and
tair to them.
During the interview alusion was very nstu.
rally made TO the Chicago nomination, 10 the
result OF which be expressed himself as having
no interest. He had been a Republican once
but they had gone away from their principles,
and had read him out Of the party. IL had got
new leaders-men who opposed iG while he him.
self was struggling for its organization. He had
doLe more for the party than regiment of the
men who had read him out of the party. They
had taken the rens into their own hands, and now
1t mattered not to him what they did"
Seeing the direction in which his remarks were
drifting, and wishing TO avert the plunge down
that precipice, ! interrupted abruptly, " But
Chief Justice Chase can never be anything but
Republican"
"l'm not Republican" be said, coldly, aud
then, qualifying, added, " am not a partisan at
all. ! was Democrat in my younger days
was elected to the United States Senate as
Democrat, with anti slavery, abolition princi.
pies"
Still wishing to draw him back, | remarked
"Y You had many friends who would have sup
ported you had you received the nomination at
Chicago" To which he replied: "Yes, know
| had, but they have read me out of the party,
and have chosen another leader"
Again interruptiEg, being determined TO force
him 10 adhesion to the great party of progress
and freedom, said, earnestly: "But you will
not go TO the Democrats; you can never act with
that party as now organized; never certainly with
its present animus-its haired of the negro its
denunciAtion of reconstruction its opposition TO
all great and good moral measures. You, hon.
ored Fir, could never find home feeling and sym
psthy there. You could never become a CO.
worker with your lifelong political enemies
men who hold nothing in common with you. Most
sssuTedly you could never consent TO become the
Democratic candidate for the presidency"
Without manlfestiDg any unwilingness TO con.
tDue the conversation, he seemed throughout
nervous and fdgety. His countenance had not
that cheerful genial smile upon 1t that used TO
play so gracefully over the face of the model
American statesman. He turned over file after
file, and seemed disconnected, as though he had
poor case and had failed 10 make his point. Tax.
ing up paper from one side of his table and lay.
ing it down upon the other, he said, strlightly
'lf they would accept Of my principles as their
platform, would. / snail not give up my doc
trine of equal rights. They must take that. /
shall bold TO the reconstruction measures; they
are right and constitutional. | drew up the bill
the second oue-thOugh did not have IN the mill.
taTy. j wOud have managed the affairs with ci
william officers ard called in the military as they
were nee ded. If ! could get them to indorse
these principles, that would settle them forever"