Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-22
ChiefsJustice Chase.

Salmon Portland Chase was born in
carnisb n. H., January Is. 1903, and had
;nSt entered his Goth year. In 1915, his
. fat,,er removed TO Keene, n. II. In 1920,
,yben twelve wears old, his father being
dead he went to Worthington, o., where
he was under the care Of his uncle, Phllan-
der Chase. Bishop of Ohio He attended
the Cincinnati College for one year, and,
returning to New Hampshire, IN 1924 en-,
tered Dartmouth College, ana graduated
in 1926. The next winter he opened PR
yate school in Washington CITY III 1873
he was admitted to the Bar, having READ
law in the office of Attorney-General WIT.
Tn 1890, he returned to Cincinnati, ana mas
ever since made his home IN ONO. lie
published in three volumes an eoltloh Oh
the laws of the State, and, gaming prac-
tice. was, in 1884, selected as attorney lor
the branch of the United States Bank IN
Cincinnati In 1887, he acted as counsel
for q woman claimed as fugitive slave,
and. in an elaborate argument, maintained
that the Fugitive Slave law of 1893 was
unconstitutional. In an argument before
the Supreme Court of Ohio, he de
Tended J. G. Birney, who was
charged with harboring slave.
He became thenceforth identified with
the Anti-Slavery. party. In 1876, with
Mr.. Seward he argued the celebrated Van
Zandt case before the Supreme Court OF
the United States, denying the validity OF
the laws for the rendition Of fugitive
slaves. He was counsel in number OF
cases involving the same questions. In
1910 he supported Harrison for the Prcs1-
dency, but finding nothing cOngenial in
the views of the Tyler Administration, he
united in a call in 1S41 for an Anti-Sla-
very Convention at Columbus, Ohio At
this Convention was organized the Liberty
partv. In 1843, at National Convention
of the party held in Buffalo, among the
resolutions offered was one which pro
posed to treat the clause Of the Constltu-
ton relating to the rendition of fugitive
slaves as utterly null and void" Mr..
Chase opposed this, but it was adopted by
the Convention. In 1915, another Liberty
Convention was held in Cincinnati, and
the address was written by him. In 1913,
a Free Soil Convention was held at Co
| lumbus, which called National COnven-
ton at Buffalo. He presided at the Buff
falo Convention and prepared the plat
| form.
At the meeting Of the Legislature of
| Ohio, in January, 1919, he was elected a
| Senator of the United States by the COM
bined votes the Democratic and Free-Soil
members. He begun his service in the
| Senate ON the 4th of March following lie
| participated in the Liberty Convention held
| in Pittsburgh in 1852, and supported the
nominees Of that Convention. In the Sen
ate, in 1850, he strongly opposed the com
| promise measures of that year proposed
| by Mr.. Clay, and, by way Of amendments,
! sought TO exclude slavery from the Terri
| tories In 1854, he strenuously opposed
| the Kansas Nebraska act; prepared an ad-
| dress to the people demonstrating against
it, and he continued his opposition TO it
| down to the hour OF its passage. lie was
an able and industrious Senator, support
! ing by his votes and speeches the general
| policy Of the Democratic party, except on
the question Of slavery
In 1865, he retired from the Senate, and
| that same year was elected Governor OF
| Ohio. In 1851, he was again elected, and
| closed his second term in January, 1860.
| On the 18th Of March, 1861, he entered Mr..
! Lincoln's Cabinet as Secretary Of the
| Treasury. This latter office he resigned
on the Sd Of June, 1864, and on the 9th Of
| December, in the same year, he was APP
pointed by Mr.. Lincoln ChicfJustIce OF
! the United States, to succeed Judge fancy.
His services as Secretary Of the Treasury
| during the war were OF value to the cOun-
! try The national credit was lost, and the
national existence was imperilcd. AS
Chicf-Justice, he presided, in 1868, in the
Senate, during the trial of the impeach-
mcnt of Andrew Johnson.
In 1860, Mr.. Chase was a candidate be-
fore the Republican Convention for the
| nomination of President. He received
the third highest number of votes on the
first and second ballots, and on the last
| ballot when Mr.. Lincoln needed but a
! few votes to be nominated, some of Mr..
| Chase's friends changed their votes, and
gave Mr.. Lincoln the required majority.
| The country has had few purer or ADLER
| statesmen in modern times than Salmon
! 2. Chasc.-Chlcag0 Tribune.