Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-08

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the time Of the attack Tuesday forenoon, be
remained unconscious, the head motioDless
while the arm was restlessly active. Con-
vulsiye spasms required frequently during
the day, and the doctors finally placed the
patient under the influence of chloroform,
which was applied on handkerchief to bis
face, whenever spasm was seen TO be ap'
preaching. Its effect was immediate. I'm
remitting attention, and all the care that
affection could suggest, found no response.
AT few minutes after 3 O'Clock yesterday
morning it became evident he was sinking
fast. His breathing became more and
more labored until finally st 10 o'clock
precisely it ceased, q spasmodic twitchipg
began, with the low body followed, which
lasted for few minutes and then all was
still There were present in the room SEN
ator Sprague and Mrs. j. @. Sprague,
the Il Chief Justices eldest daughter,
Mr.. w. S. Hoyt and Mrs, Janet
Hoyt, Mr.. Edwin Hoyt and Mr.. Hiram
Barney. The remains of The Chief Justice
will lie in st. Georges p. e. Church, Ruth
erford Place, from Friday TIL noon Satur-
day ~ afford an opportunity for seeing
them. DR.. Lynn viii conduct the funeral
ceremonies and Rev. DR.. Hall preach the
sermon. The funeral takes place at three
O'Clock Saturday afternoon, after which the \
body viii be forwarded to Washington for
temporary interment in the Washington
cemetery.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
CINCINNATI, May THE Commercial
tomorrow will speak specially of Judge
Chaseis alienation from the Republican
party and will say. The disagreement of
Mr.. Chase with the Republican party is the
most interesting chapter of his life. 1t has
been and will be the subject of severe critic
ism, but history must vindicste Mr.. Chase
as it will Messrs. Greeley, Seward and
Sumner not only from the charge that there
was lack ofintegrity in bis separation from
the party, but substantially from the charge
that there was any serious inconsistence
in his conduct. Parties are changeable,
things of calculation and circumstances.
Men of the highest qualities are less SO.
Such men were Seward, Greeley and
Chase. While many often asserted that
Chase was bribed by promise of the NOM
ination for President in 1868 by the New
7 ork Convention to consent to be counted
a member of the Democratic party, that is
a mistake. He hoped then to help the
good cause of national purity and freedom
by inducing the Democrats to accept in
good faith the consequences of the
war, and believed himself capable of guild
ing the nation according to the platform
that he propos in paths of peace. If that
was mistake it was not one of sel6shness,
but Of generosity. The difference between
Chase and his old political friends, his
broken health and respectable. retirement
from the public gaze in the labors of The Su
preme Court combined to lessen the con-
spcuity Of the Chief justice; but the event
of yesterday will be like the removal of
veil covering massive and grand work
in bronze. His colossal figure stands forth
in full view and in all its majestic proper
tions, to be obscured no more. He was
never President, and will be remembered
forever in that association with Clay and
Webster. His place in the nations history
is clear and high, among the most memora-
bic of her men.
Senator Howe.
MILWAUKEE, May THE Ne1us says
Senator Mat. Carpenter gives 1t as bis opin.
ion that Senator Timothy o. Howe, of Wis
consin, will be appointed to ill the vacant
Chief Justiceship.