Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-05-15
DEATH or chief JUSTICE CHASE.

Chief Justice Chase departed this
life Wednesday morning Of last
weekeat half past ten O'Clock. He
had gone to New York on Saturday
to visit his daughter, Mrs. W. S.
iIoyt. At ten o'clock Tuesday morn
ing he was found in his bed in a
state of unconsciousness having
had a recurrence of the paralysis OF
which he had had several strokes.
All efforts to relieve him were una
vailing, and he died on wednesday
morning. The funeral services were
held in St.Georges, Episcopal church
in New York, after which his re-
mains were taken TO Washington
and were inferred on Monday.
The fame of this distinguished
statesman, Is the common property
of the nation. He had attained the
age of sixty-five years, and has gone
to his rest covered with honors and
rewards. OfNew England paren-
tage- at the age of twelve he remov-
ed to Ohio, with the progress of
which State, before his elevation to
the Cabinet, and, later, to. the Su-
preme Bench of the United States,
his history is most honorably and
closely identified. His early youth
Immediately following his college
graduation, was passed in teaching.
In lS29,soon after attaining his ma
jouty, he was admitted to the bar,
where he rapidly rose to distinction
and a lucrative practice. Here his
pronounced anti slavery views and
sympathies were speedily made
known. He repeatedly volunteered
to defend colored persons claimed
as fugitive slaves, and was associat-
ed with Secretary Seward as defen-
dant's counsel in the famous Van
Zant fugitive slave case, before the
Supreme Court of the United States
His sentiments Of hostility to slave
ry were also expressed by his posi-
tion in the political movements of
of the country as well as in his eff
forts at the bar. He was in 1871 a
member of the Convention which
organized the Liberty party of Ohio
and drafted the address defining Its
principles and purpose. This was
one ofthe earliest expositions of the
political movement against slavery.
He also bore a prominent part in
the proceeding of the National Lib
erty Convention at Buffalo, in 1S43.
Two year later he projected South
ern and Western Liberty Conven-
tion, having for its object the peace
able extinction of slavery within the
respective States. He was an ac-
tive spirit in the second National
Liberty Convention of 1917, and in
lS47 he prepared call for a Free
Territory State Convention, out of
which subsequently grew the Ma
onal Free Soil Convention at Buffa-
10 in the same year, and of which
he was chosen President. In 1S49
he was elected to the Senate of the
United States from Ohio. In this
body his infexible opposition to all
measures looking to the nationalist
tion of slavery,soon made itself felt.
But while thus vigilant in maintain
ing his principles on this question,
he did not neglect the discharge of
the general duties of his position.
He was also one of the earliest
advocates of cheap postage. In 1856
he was elected Governor of Ohio, and
at the close of his first term was re-
elected by the largest vote that had
ever been given for a Governor IN
that State. At the National Re-
publican Convention, held in Chica-
go in 1850, he received forty-nine
votes on first ballot, for President.
He was appointed Secretary of the
Treasury by President Lincoln in
1861, which position he held until
June, 1864, during which time he
originated the ''greenback" system,
and was instrumental in bringing
about the establishment of National
banks. His admirable management
of the National finances during that
period are matters of history. AT
ter his retirement from the Treasury
he was appointed Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court,to fill the vacan-
cy caused by. the death of Judge
Taney. This position he occupied
until his decease, as stated.