The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-06-20
An Arch Intriguer.

CHASE CoNvENTIoN-Th friends Of
Chief Justice Chase will meet in convention
at Philadelphia, it is stated, this week to
adopt such measures as will secure harmO-
NOUS co operation with the Democracy
atlanta htteHigeHcer, 9Th
When Cassandra inveighed against the in
PRODUCTION of the Trojan horse, and wildly |
bewailed the calamities drawn down upon
her devoted country, by the O'untarY but |
treacherous offerings of the Greeks, she /
wept and walled in vain. None barkened |
to her wild and apparently hyperbolical com |
plants They deemed her mad, and the I
prophecies was decTied as a crazed woman /
the temple of whose reason had been shat |
tered by the Gods. If the Democracy can |
accommodate itself to Salmon p. Chase, the |
political triekster, then Is there no such !
thing as patriotism, virtue has fed to |
! BRITISH beasts, and men have lost their rea-
/ son. When men are doomed to destruction
/ they are first deprived of reason. 1t would
| be the hight Of madness, of folly, of unhal-
! lowed absence of all principle to accept any
/ overtures from Salmon p. Chase, on the part
of the Democracy.
! The Democracy Of Ohio have had more
than one trial of the plastic gentleman.
/ They know him we'll, and will never consent
to be tied to his car again. lie went to the
| United States Senate on most corrupt bar
! gain. He had two friends (abOlitiOnists) in
/ the Ohio Legislature. Wings and Demo
Gratis were locked in the Legislature and in
the representation of Hamilton county, with
Geo Z. Pugh at the head of the Democrats,
knocking for admission The two Adolf
| tionists under the instructions of Mr. Chase,
played their cards we'll They closed the
bargain. Chase went to the United States
Senate; and the spOils and minor Offices
were divided among the Democrats.
Again: When the Know Eothings had
perfected their organization so that success
was certain, they being without a proper
head-a mere long, wirey, spiral caudal APP
pendage to the most ultra scheme of dema-
goguism and Intolerance a bargain was
struck with them, By which Chase, who could
not possibly raise more than Is, 000or 10000
abolition votes, at the outside, in the whole
State of Ohio became that head that was
wanting to the long tail, and without ex
actly being converted to Know Nottingham
consented to be its candidate for Governor
all the other Offices being generously con-
coded to the Know Nothings The same
kind of compromise that waited Chase into
the Senate of the United States on Demo
cratic wings, made him Governor Of Ohio
with the Know NOthings for his underpin-
ming. In the first instance he claimed to be
a liberty man--not an northumberland in
every other respect a sound Democrat es-
peciallY upon such points as hard money
and free trade. How exceedingly tenacious
he is Of principles, is easily demonstrated
from the main features Of his public life
but 1t IS sufficient that he has always been
ready to fraternize with any party with
whom he could conclude a bargain. Like
the arch-tempter, he has bright and beautiful
worlds to give away TO those who will fall
down and worship him. The fires of his
ambition are inextinguishable. & fine reader
of the worst phases of the human heart and
/ we'll Tf0darata T1diu tho NH oh
human ambitions, he has had no difficulty
whatever in perfecting his arrangements by
which he has succeeded in thanking opposing
elements that would have overwhelmed a
; less fortunate parsonage.
While Chase was Governor of Ohio, a
monstrous hiatus was discovered in the State
Treasury. The misapplication of more than
three quarters of a million of dollars was
traced through the administration Of Chase
to that of his predecessor, MediIl The fact
was, the preceding Treasurer Of State was
John @. Breslin, a Democrat who had been
q candidate for reelection, but was defeated
by VIM. II. Gibson, his brOther-in-law,
Know Nothing, who was elected on the same
ticket with Chase. These brothers-in-law
had been dabbling in wild land speeulations
in Nebraska, and had more than one wild
cat bank in operation, that did not prove
profitable Investment They had been for
some time engaged in these speculations,
, and had arranged that the secret should
f be preserved, whatsoever might be elected.
When Chase was informed by Gibson that
havoc had been played with the Treasury,
and that it would be impossible to meet the
accFuing interest on the public debt, he
seized the opportunity of attempting to pro-
, duce the impressiO that the defalcation
was of long standing, that it had occurred
during the preceding administration, and
that the only offense of his State Treasurer
was that he tried to screen his brother-in-
law from the penalty of his crime The
term Of the Governor was almost concluded
, and he was a candidate for reelection And
it was in this mean, dastardly way he sought
TO shift all responsibility, that his own
chances might not be endangered Besides,
he was unwilling to have an immediate
Legislative investigation, and instead of
cOnvOking the Legislature, as was his con-
stitutonal duty, with his Auditor of State
he illegally and URcOnStitutjoRdIy borrowed
$4,000 to meet the interest, and to secure
which he still further transcribed his pre-
rogative. In this matter, Chase manifested
the cool, deliberate calculation of the IN
principled adyenturer, who will resort to
, any subterfuge or pretext, to shift response
{ bility from himself
To talk of such man in conn eetion with
the Democratic nomination for the Presi-
dency, is to directly insult whatsoever claims
, being q Democrat Chase was for long con-
sidered the embodiment of antagonism to
| the Democratic party, and to accept him
/ now, and under the circumstances, were to
{ argue facility on their part to shift their
ground on account of expediency that would
indicate them apt scholars of the elastic and
versatile, and eminently selfish Chief Justice
himself
That Mr.. Chase could consent to be the
2 Democratic nominee only shows how ut
s terly INSCRIPTIONS and selfish he is. TO
r. accept him as such would exhibit a folly
? and stupidity that would sink a party to
oblivion without delay.
g Great efforts are being made to show Chief
: Justice Chase the man for the situation, not
withstanding he was viewed with doubt and
distrust through the earlier hours Of the i'm
> parchment trial, and at no time was his
q status considered free from apprehension
, and uncertainty. Yet it was a grand thea
ter and fit stage for the magnificent display