New-York tribune., 1874-06-25

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borne their part. and in the conclusive triumph OF
the ppciples of the Purtans and their policies over
nil discordant all opposing elements, which enter
into the wide comprehension Of American nauonai-
ity, theirs be the praise which belongs to such we
RARIY TRAINING--A MOTHERS CARE
The son of a farmer q man of substance ana oi
credit with his neiphbors. and not less WIN sa' po
pie Of his State young Chase drew from MS 10y
hood the vigor of body and OF mInu "nioh iu,'' ~
and lahors are well calculated to nourish. Severai
h;s to,hsrs brothers we're graduates of this col
lsao aud reached igb positions in Church and state
A,unnropitious un turn of the commercial affairs OF
.h. cantry pipped with it's frost the growing pros
1T. of his father whose death soon following lett
him in, sender years. and as of q numerous lam
uv to the sole care of his mother. With most
scauty means her thrift and energy sufhced to save
her children from ignorance or declining manners,
maintained their selfrespect and independence 20.
them forth in the world we'll disciplined, stocked
with GOOD principles and inspired with proud ana
honorable purposes To the praise OF this excellent
woman wherever the name of her great son shai DO
proclaimed this. too shall be told in remembrance
of her. that Ch1stains faith anu mo'hef > love-
"a high and pure as ever ennobled the most famous
matrons of history. stamped the character ana 1ur
nished the education which equipped him for the
Iabors and the trinmphs of his life. One cannot
read her letters to her son in college without the
deepest emotion How many such women were
there in the plain ranks of ewEngland life, in her
generation. How many arc there now! fayins
marvellous little heed to the discussion OF womehs
rights they show wonderful addition to the per-
fornance of women's duties.
His uncle Bishop Chase of Ohio assumed Tor
time the care and expense of his education and TINS
drew him to the West, where under this tutehge'
he pursued academic studies for two years AT the
end of This time he returned to his mothers charge,
entered the juuior class of Dartmouth College, and
graduated in the year 1926 at the age of IS. The
only significance in its impression on his future fe
of this brief guardianship of the Western Bishop,
was as the determining influence which fixed the
chief city of the West in his choice as the forum
and arena of his professional and public life. After
spendng four years in Washington, gaining his SUD-
sistence by teaching, law student with MI Wirt,
then at the zenith of bis faculties and his fame
studying men and manners at the capital, watching
the new questions then shaping themselves for po-
Iieal action observing the celebrated statesmen OF
the day, conversant with the great Chief-Justice
Marshall and his learned associates on the bench OF
the Supreme Court and with Webster and Binney
and other famous lawyers at its BAR he was admitted
to practice and at the age of p established himself
nt Cincinnati transferring thus, once and forever,
his home from the New-England of his family. his
birth his education and his love, to the ruder but
equally strenuous and more expansive society OF the
West
While vet of tender yeaIs following up the earlier
pious instruction of his mother and his own pro-
found sense of religious obligations under the incul-
cation of the Bishop he accepted the Episcopal
Church rs the body of Christian holiness In whose
communion found best support for the religious
life he proposed to himself When he left your college he
had not wholly reliDquished Ia purpose once held, OF
adopting the clerical profession. His adhesion 10 the
CHRISTIAN faith simple and dconsantan sincere ana
accepted the master and rule OIL e In devout
confidence in the moral government OF the world as
present and real over the race OF man and
all human affairs He all his life great student OF
the Scriptures and modern specuations ever shook
the solid of his belief When he entered the
City of Washing gon fresh from college, the earnest
prayer of his heart was that God would give him work
10 do and success in doingt When be was laying out
the plans OF profess life la his first establishment at
Cncinna his invocation was, "may God enable me to
be content consciousness of faithfully dscharg
ing duties and deliver from too eager thirst
for the applause and favor OF men," All through the
successive and manifold activities Of his busy and
strenuous e when TO outward seeming they were all
worldly and personal the same predominant sense OF
duty and religious responsibility animated and solemn
lied the whole.
the period OF education work he had before him
and that work itself What Mr. Chase was at TINS time,
in all the essential traits of his moral and intellectual
character his views OF e its value. Its just objects
and aims its social moral and religious responsibilities
an his views of himself his duties obligations, prospects
and possibilities; in his determinations and desires,
sucb it seems to form the most attentive study OF
all these points such. in very marked degree, he
continued to be at every Of his ascent in life.
What then shall we assign as the decisive elements
the controlling constituents OF character and what the
assurance OF their persistence and their force. which
this youth could bring the service OF the State or con-
tribute to the enhancement of society and the we'll
being of mankin1f
These were simple but, in combination, powerful and
ADEQUATE to fill out worhIly the life of large opporuni'
ties which. though not yet foreseen to himself. was
awaiting him.
THE DECISIVE ELEMENTS OF HIS CHARACTER.
The faculty OF was very broad land strong In
him yet without being vast surprsing IL seized 1.-THE
sensible and practical relations OF all subjects submitted
to it and firmly held them in It's tenacious grasp; 1t ex-
posed these relations to the apprehension OF those whose
opinion or action 1t behooved him to influence by
methods direct and sincere. dscardng mere ingenuity
and dsdainng the subteness OF insinuation Hs edu'
cation had all been OF kind to discipline and invgorae
ms natural powers. to ncumber them with beset-
ting weight Of learning or to supplant them by artificial
training.
His oratory vigorous, with those "quali:les OF
earnes force and earnestness which produce copvc-
ton" rhetoric ample bat not reh his illustra-
,ons opposite but seldom the point of w.t. his do
livery weighty and Imposing. .sf-t 0r.
His force OF WILL whether respect OF peremptori-
ness or perslstency, proigious; his courage TO
brave and his fort,iude TO endure absolute; bis
loyalty TO every in which he enlisted, his fidelity
every warfare in which he took up arms were PROOF
against peril and disaster.
HIS estimate OF human ars. aud OF his own relation
70 them was sober and sedaye all their grandeur aud