Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-24
The Chase Movement.

Convention in New York as candidate
for the Presidency. The idea is so prepos-
ferrous to Democrat who has any regard
for the principles of his party, as scarcely
to have attracted serious attention amongst
the masses of the people of the West, who
think that the next Presidential contest
should be fought out upon the issues that
lie at the very foundation OF the existence
of Constitutional government of the United
States. The sensational claquers of the
money power at the East, who have started
the cry of CHASE, do not appreciate the
fact that the voters, who pay and feel the
taxes, fully understand the effect upon their
interests of the Congressional bond hold
ing and Negro Suffrage military despotism
policy which the Radicals have inaugu-
rated, and mean that it shall be over
thrown.
How is this to be accomplished by taking
SALMON P. CHASE, the father of both these
iniquitous systems, and presenting him as
candidate for the Presidency to men who
do not belong to that school of politics,
which believes that the tchote source
of Government consists in contriving
means to hold Office, % without refer
ence as to what measures are right or
wrong? No platform eunningly got
ten up to subserve purpose can deceive
those who are acquainted with the record
of the Chief Justice. Especially is this the
case in Ohio, where he is thoroughly un-
derstood. Much Is now said about CHAsE's
Democratic antecedents. What are they !?
Originally Whig attorney for the Bank
of the United States at Cincinnati, being
beaten for the nomination of State Senator
in Hamilton county by his party in 1S40,
he went into the BIRNEY movement, and
was thenceforth known as third party
Liberty man, when in 1S49, MORSE and
TOWNSEND, his friends holding the balance
of power in the Ohio Legislature. between
the Wings and Democrats, succeeded in
electing him United States Senator, in
place of WILLIAM ALLEN, by bargain and
sale of offices, which reflected little credit
upon CHASE personally, though at the time
he made great professions of Democratic
sympathies, aside from the Negro issue,
and perhaps may have voted the Demo-
cratic ticket once in his life, in 1851. In
the Senate of the United States he did not
act with the Democratic party, but direct
ed his whole energies to building up
third party organization, and in 1856, when
succeeded by the Hon. GEO. E. PUGH, he
was active In the Free Soil and Know
Nothing combination to defeat the Demo-
cratic party. Self aggrandizementh has been
his object in all his movements, and when
appointed one of the Peace Commissioners
from Ohio to the Conference at Washing
ton in 1861, he pursued a course which
called down upon him the strongest de-
nunc iation of his colleague, the Hon.
THOMAS EWING, in set speech. More
than any other man, he is respon-
sible for LINCOLN not giving
seat In his Cabinet to some Southern Con-
servative, which might have prevented the
war. He advised to let the Southern
States go, and after the war for the Union
was inaugurated, he was indefatigable in
his efforts to perue,t it into party war for
emancipation, for the purpose of enabling
the Radicals to denounce every man a
traitor and rebel sympathizer who did not
approve of their assaults upon all con-
stitutional Government. Defeated in his
aspirations for the Presidenc by LINCOLN
in 1864, he then tried to coauet for the
Democratic nomination, but falling in his
project through the FREMoNc demonstra-
tion at Cleveland, he coerced LINCOLN into
promising him the place of Chief Justice,
in hopes of getting rid of him politically.
No sooner was the President assassinated,
claiming the doctrine of Negro Suffrage,
and in the city of New Orleans, with his
clique, laid the whole plan by which Negro
supremacy has been since inaugurated
throughout the South by his followers in
Congress.
The reaction brought about by these
measures, threatening to sweep the Rad
ical party from power, particularly after
the defeat of Negro Suffrage in Ohio, when
the Chief Justice boastingly came home
to vote for it, the leaders very ungratefully
seized hold of the coat tail of General
GRANT to drag themselves out of the slough
of dependency. CHASE resented the in
suit after all his labors for the party, and
when Impeachment was set on foot he SIM
ply did his duty as Presiding Judge, and
does not deserve as much credit as the sworn
Radical Senators who voted for acquittal
at the risk of their political future, while
CHASE in life Office had everything to gain
and nothing to lose. Yet who thinks of
nominating either Senators HENDERSON,
TRUMBULL or FEssENDEN as Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, although the
two former were once Democrats? The
satisfaction of defeating his Ohio rival,
WADE, against whom he cherished bitter
teud ever since WADE's name was used as
Presidential candidate at Chicago in ls6O
is reward sufficient ior his well-doing.
What is the Dem ocratic party to gain.
even by success with Chief Justice CHASE
as candidate for the Presidency Pa sur
render of every vital principle of their Or
ganization. Opposition to Negro Suffrage
and the enforcing of it upon the States by
Congressional usurpation, is the great issue
upon which the campaign is to be fought,
The platform now purportiDg to be put
forward by Mr.. CHAsE's friends, is misera-
BILE subterfuge on this question. Negro
Suffrage having been forced on the South
by Congressional Intervention through
bogus Constitutions, gotten up by carpet
bag beggars and Negroes, is to. be guaran-
teed by recognizing it as an accomplished
fact, which can only be changed by the ac.
tion of the States themselves, through the
very electors thus manufactured, in viola
tion OF the plainest provisions of the Con-
stitution OF the United States. Let it be
recollected, too, that under these bogus
State Constitutions, no one can vott
who will not swear to support, botf
now and hereafter, Negro Suffrage