The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-05-15
SALM0N p. CHASE.

The telegra ph announces the death Of
the Chief Justice Of the United States,
which sad event occurred in New York
at 10 O'clock Mr.. Chase was striken
with apoplexy on Tuesday afternoon, bat
no mention of his aff1iction was made In
the dispatches received last night; and,
indeed the statement OF his death follow
ed upon the wires within half an hour
after the first dispatch received concern
ing his illness
Salmon Portland Chase was born in
Cornish, n H., Jan l3, 1908. At the
age of twelve. his father died and the
boy vas sent to Ohio, where his educa
tion was for time superin;ended by his
uncle, Bishop Philander Chase He
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1926.
For two or three years he taught c.assi
cal school in Washington. studying law
meanwhile under " illiam Writ, and in
1929 was admitted to the bar of the dis
trict- The following year he removed to
Cincinnati. and ever since then has made
that city his home There he soon ac
for some time retained as solicitor for
the Cincinnati branch OF Nick Biddle 5
bank. His first public e>nnection with
! the slavery question was in 1887, when
/ he ably defended fugitive from the pat
/ riarchal institution. In 1916 he was as
/ socated with Mr. Seward in the Van
| Zandt case, IN the Supreme Court of :he
/ United States, holding then, as before,
that there gas no power in Congress to
t legisate for the recis nation of fugitives.
and that, in fact, no fugitive could be he
claimed at all, unless proved to have es
capped from one of the original States.
In 1910 Mr.. Chase supported Harrison
for the Presidency and in lS43 was one
of the leading members of the Liberty
Party contention held at Buffalo. -Four
years later he presided in the seeopd na-
tional convention of the party. and par
tieipated in the nomination of Martin
| Van Buren as the Free Soil candidate
In the Ohio Legislator, in the winter
of 1850, three or iorr Freesoilers helC
the balance of power, and, uniting foi
that purpose with the Democratic mem
bers, they secured the election of Mr.
Chase to the United States Senate IL
that body ne earnestly opposed the Clay
compromise measures Of 1850: and il
! 1854 was foremost in arousing the storm
of popular indignation against the Kan
Sas- Nebraska bill and the repeal OF tn,
Missouri Compromise. Nominated fo
presented, he wass elected in 1858, ant
was prominently named for the Presiden
tial nomination in the first national con
vention of the Republican party in 1856
He was re elected Governor in 1857 Ii
the Chicago convention of 1860 he receiv
ed 40 votes for the Presidency, on the
first ballot. Mr. Lincoln called him tt
the head of the Treasury Department il
March of the following year, and he con
tinued in charge of the financial affairs ot
the government up to the S0th of June
1864, conducting the operations of tn,
department with matchless skill through
out that most trying period In Oetobe,
of the same year he was appointed b,
President Lincoln to the Office of Chic
Justice of the Supreme Court. then jus
made vacant by the death of Roger 3
fancy. One of the most notable Incl
dents of his judicial career was the or
ganization Of the Senate as an impeach
ment court lin which he presided) 70
the trial of President johnson. In lS6y
he narrowly escaped nomination for tn,
Presidency from the New York Demo
cratic Convention. his sympathies havin.
been quite strongly with that party f
some time. Two or three years ago HI
suffered severely frem paralysis. and HI
life was at one tine deSpaIred of. Hi
never fully regainad his health, and for
a long time took no part III the busines
of the court Lattefly, he had recovered
sufficiently to resume the discharge o
his official duties. ant Ea7 opposed I,
be gradually gaining strength. Hi
death at this time, therefore, was as un
expected as sudden, and will excite
feeling Of profound regret threug hont th'
land. Ch.cogo Ere1tiag Past Hay 7h.
The organization of the Democrat,
party on the one issue of free trad,
is an insult to the defenders of Democra til
traditions 10 Georgia, Kentucky ana
Mississippi. The pure Democracy vii
: / Il l.