Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-11-23
salmon P. Chase.

Those who remember Salmon P.
Chase only as the Radical of Radicals
throughout the war-the leader of the
earnest men,, whose chief employ
ment it was to advertise their own
superior loyalty at the expense ofsuch
men as Lincoln, Grant, Morton, &C.
have no doubt been astonished to find
him patching upd latforms for Demo
! cratic Conventions, and telling of his
''hopc" to see that party again in con-
troll of the Government. But there
are others with recollections of that
gentleman which admit no surprise at
finding him bidding for Rebel and
Copperhead support. The means by
which he got into the Senate in 1883
are fresh in the memories of many,
and that operation has prepared such
to expect fro1nhim anything that he
may think calculated to promote his
ovprweening ambition. His s.halance
of power" dickcr with the Delnocracv
| at that time was on par with ms
present negotiation whereby he-irro-
poses, in consideration of the Demo
! cratic nominations for the Presidency,
to transfer certain q Conservative Re
publicans''- think of that, for Salmon
p Chase!-to that party A pretty
champion, he, of the conservative
clement! How sad, that Grant, anG
Fish, and DelaUo, and Sherman, should
have become so Radical" that this
Salmon p Chase must needs join Jeff
Davis, and Toomps, and Thurman,
and Pendleton, in a conservative
movement to save the nation!
Judge Chase's position in respect
to secession during the winter OF
! 1S6O-I, is not correct There is little
reason to doubt, that it was his plan
to compromise with the Secessionists
and agree upon an amicable division
of the Union substantially on the line
of slavery, which plan was strongly
supported, more or less openly by his
personal adherents. He evidently
had no faith in the ability of the Gov.
ernment TO suppress the rebellion, anC
his policy was to place himself at thu
head Of the Northern half. This plar
was no more inconsistent with hi.
subsequent ultra radicalism, than hi:
present relation to the Democratic
party North and South.
No man ever was more successful il
imposing himself off upon peopl,
by false pretense, than was Judgt
Chase in the case of the Republican!
of North western Ohio. Many o
them almost worshipped him as
saint. What he said or did, with then
was law and gospel; and whoeve
came to them with his endorsement
whatever his other merits, was sur
to meet with their favor. He was til,
great apostle of 'Radicalism," to sit a
whose feet was a high honor; and wo
to the unfortunate who presumed t.
offend against him or his 1t was a
much as man. s character for loyalt,
was worth, to hesitate to swear b
him, or to refuse to accept whom ht
.. might send as his representatives
: Many men in Ohio infinitely bette
than he, have been tahooed and ruI
down, brcause they had no confidenc
in him, but believed him the amb
tious and unscrupulous man he La
repeatedly shown himself to be. BU
all such have been abundantly Eipdi
Gated, and by him, 100: HIS preser
: bidding for the Democratic nomins
ton Justlhes all past lack OF Ialth
him as political leader.
AS to the conservative Republ
cans" whom he proposes to transfe
to the Democracy, we apprehend the
e will be few, indeed. The great re-
B estate dealer of old, who opened h
s office on "an exceeding high noun
4 ain,' was not more mistaken as to ii
5 extent of his possessions, than Judg
Chase will find himself to be, if IL
S time ever comes for him to undertah
i the transfer Of such voters. Becau
: he duped Republicans as ''Radical
. it by no means follows that he CT
It now cheat them as a conservative
t Toledo Com.