The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-25
be elevated ana worthy IN lfseif; the loinness
Of his spirit for the conflict OF Tie was

OF MS spirit IOr the cOunlct OF lie Was
such as raised
To height OF nobest temper heroes old
ArnIng TO battle
THE PAIL OF SLAVERY.
Mr. Chase was among the FIRST OF the competent
and practical political thinkers OF the day " pene-
trate the superficial crust " nch covered the Stun
guidance OF their impressible heats SO as to save
the constituted liberties Oh the nation, II not from
convnlsion at least from confederation. lie found
the range OF political thought and action which
either party permitted 10 itself or to its rival
compressed by two unyielding postulates. TIE
Republic would tolerate division OF parties In
federal politlcs which did not run through the
slave states as well as tue tree. The second was
tnat no party could MAINTAIN footing In the Save
states that did not concede the nationality OF the
institution Q, slavery ana Its rigar, n equality
grow with the growth and strengthen
With the strength OF the American Union.
late and through great aoors, wise connsels long
suffering patience, and by the successive stages
free soil party, led mp the way TO the republican
party. which, made up by the whig party dropping
party losing ITS ireesoi constituents tent ITS
primary postuate OF our politics IN twain. and
took possession OF the government by the election
OF Its candidate, Mr.. Lincoln
THE FINANCIER.
or the great abilities which Mr.. Chase, in his
adm nisrratIon oil the Treasury. exhibited through
the three arduous years OF that pubic service, no
question has ever been made. The exactions OF
the place knew no limits. A people wholly unac-
customed TO the pressure OF taxation ana with an
absolute horror OF a national debt, was TO be
rapidly subjected TO the irst without stunt and
to the burial under Q mountain OF the last.
Taxes which should support military operations
on the largest scale ana yet not break the BACK or
industry, which alone could pay tnem-loans in
every form that financial skill could devise and to
the furthest verge or the public credit. and finally
stress and necessity OF the subversion OF the legal
tenuer by the substitution OF what has been APPLY
government or its coined money-all these
exigencies ana all these expedients made
up the daily problems OF the secretarys
OF the civil war was the marvel Of Europe and the
admiration OF our own people. For great part
OF the wisdom, the courage and the overwhelming
force OF will which carried us through the stress or
this stormy sea the country stands under deep OBJ
aarlons to Mr.. Chase It's pilot through It's fiscal
perlls and perplexities. whether the genus OF
Hamilton, dealing with great difficulties and with
small resources, transcribed that OF Chase meet
ing the largest exigences with great resources Is
an Improbable speculation. They stand together,
In the Judgment Of their countrymen, the great
tween the President and Secretary in
inuuced Mr.. Chase to resign his portfolio and Mr..
Lincoln to acquiesce in his desire. Some criticism
OF it at the time sought to impute consequences
OF personal acerbity between these eminent men,
ana the mischies OF competing ambitious and DIS,
appointment OF Mr.. Chase 20 the Chief Justlceship
OF the United states silenced all this EVIL speech
and evil SurmiSe.
SUPREME JUDGEsHIP.
There is no doubt that Mr.. Chase greatly desired
cred the greatest gratncation to personal desires
and the worthess IN public service and In pubic
Fortunate, indeed, is he who, in the estimi te or
the profession OF the law and in the general judg
ment Of MS countrymen, combines the great
large learning, the larger wisdom. the firm
temper, the amiable serenity, the stain
SHIP, t the penetrating Insight, which make
up the qualities that should preside at this
people the final DEGREES Of government mot OF
men, but OF laws.u To whatever President it
comes, as a function OF his supreme authority, to
assign this great duty to the worhes., there is
given an opportunity OF unreasonable honor Tor
ms own name and OF vast benefits to his country
men, outlasting MS own bret authority and per.
petuating It's remembrance in the permanent rec
ords OF Justice. 'the main interest OF all human
john Adams, from the Declaration OF Independence
down. and with the singular felicity oil his line Of
personal descendants, has many titles to renown,
but by no act OF his lie has he done more to mau-
tain the constitutional liberties which he joined in
declaring, or to confirm his own fame than by CIV
Marshall TO be to US forever, through every storm
that shall beset our ship of state
Ane saving them that eye it
AN ELLSWORTH AND MADISON.
have attempted TO present IN prominent points,
passing pei, tastfgta yeruna, the worth, the work,
the duty and the nonor which fill out '.the sus-
tanned dignity OF this stately ilfen II should at
tempt to compare Mr.. Chase either in resemblance
or contrast, with the great names IN our public
life or our own times or in our previous history.
DC to class s II the 1a SG h q
Grafton OF his temper, aud in the quail
ity OF his public services, with that re-
the Revolutionary War; wrought out the inde-
pendence OF their country which they had de-
new liberties were consolidated and their per-
petuity insured. Should point more distinctly at
Ellsworth as lawyer ana judge and Madison as q
statesman would seem not ONLY the most
like, but very like Mr.. Chase. In the
affairs Mr.. Chase IS always named with
the most eminent. In every triumvirate OF
conspicuous activity ne would be naturally associ
ated. Thus. in the preliminary agitations which
prepared the triumphant politics, IL Is Chase and
sumner and Hale; in the competition for the Pres
Seward and Lincoln and Chase: In administration
IL IS stanton ana seward and Chase IN the sen
ate, Chase and seward ana sumner. All these are
newly dead and we accord them a common HON
age Of admiration and OF gratitude, not yet to be
adjusted or weighed out to each.
THE OLD sTATEsMANsHIP.
Just quarter OF a century before Mr.. Chase lett
scholar or her discipline, with the same general
traits OF birth and condition ana attendant innu-
ences which we have noted as the OASIS OF the
power and influence or tips iater son Of Dartmouth
He played famous part ~ his time as lawyer,
Senator and Minister Of State IN all the greatest
affairs and in all the highest spheres OF public ac-
tion and 10 his eloquence his countrymen paid the
singular homage with which the Greeks Crowned
That OF Perices VINO alone was called oly mplan for
his grandeur ana his power. He died with the
turning tide from the old craftsmanship to the
new, then opening. now closed. liz which Mr.. Chase
ana lis contemporaries have done their ork and
made teeir lame. Twenty lone years ago this ven-
cradle college, careful OF the memory OF who had
SO greatly served well as h0nored her, heard rom
the lips ~ Choate the praise OF Webster Whatover
oil the college what admirer OF genius and eloquence
can forget the pathetic and splendid tribute
winch the consummate orator paid TO the mighty
fame OF the great statesman. WHAT mattered 1t 10
MN or 20 the college that for the moment this
fame was checked and cl0uded In the divided judg-
ments OF his c0untrymen by the rising storms Of
the approaching struggle But, instructed bv the
experience Ol the vanquished rebellion, none are
now so dull as not TO that the consolidation Of
the Union, the demonstration OF the true
doctrine OF the constitution. the sOicitous
observance OF every obligation OF the COM
pact, were the great preparations for the
final Issue of American politics between
LIE work OF Webster and his associates was de-
voted their completeness and adequacy have
hec ira tod the tOrcp and apnIfudp or