The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-21

ography, Wherein they illustrate Mr..
| Chases views, but freed from tho explo-
sive force that Judge Warden promises
from the diaries; for IL Is we'll understood
that ho is TO pu blish them, and his friends
have already taken pleasure in informing
the world That many things which Mr..
| Chae said of himself and his family will
prove very dlstasteful to his daughters.
Mrs. Senator Sprague lie to be mortified
| by the revelation that Mr.. Chase loved
| his first wife better than Mrs. Spragues
mother, and other mortificatlons equally
unnecessary are IN store for the daughters
of tho dead jurist
OF "Mr. Schuckors and his work, " the
Herald critic says
In remarkable contrast 10 tho part OF
Judge Warden's book which wo have
| seen IL the "l.ifo of Chase, now IN pre-
para,ion and nearly ready for pnblica-
ton, by j. w. Schuckets. Mr.. Schuckers
entered Mr.. Chases service as private
secretary, in the year 1861. Sehuckcrs
| had previously been q writer on the news
| papers, serving for n considerable time on
the Cleveland Leader and other journals.
When no entered Chsse's service II was
to become the admirer and lifelong friend
| vi tulti. MI suo Wha 'buNh-
ers was al Cbases side. After the recre-
| great jurist and his associates was AZ ia
milar to Schuckers as If he had been the
| Judges other self A thorough acquaint-
ance with every trait of Mr.. Chase's char
ac,er was the result OF these twelve year
intercourse. In tho last chapter of his
book Mr.. Schuckers gives us some insight
into this knowledge, showing u, by the
| incidents he recalls, what we all knew,
that Mr.. Chase was very remarkable
| man, noble and lovable, with some strik-
| ing fcibles and weaknesses strong char
acter, not to DO too closely scrutini2ed,
but to be dealt with lovingly and SYM
pathetically. Schuckers evidently loved
Chase with the devotion Of q weaker for q
stronger nature, and he approaches his
task from an opposite standpoint in every
way from that of Judge Warden. His
picture is portrait in outline, often awk-
ward, but always suggestive and never
unfaithful, while Judge Warden's is
daub, rich in color, but inartistic and
untrue to the original. Both biogrsphers
60 over pretty much the same ground,
but neither has written . really great
"Life of Chase"-the ono because his
work is almost colorless and the other DO.
cause no attempted to paint in fresco, Blu,
produced only tavern sign.
THE DER DEcisIoS-scnucKER,
oNTuE CURRENCY QUESTION.
In his note to Judge Warden acknowl
edging the birthday letter, Chief Justice
Chase said it was tho will of Divine Prov
idence to make him instrumental in the
promotion of two great reforms, both pc
= litical; ono social, the other financial
Warden gives precedence gin point o
q | glory as in timo' to tho work done in pro
: motion of social reform, but hopes to "dis
q play duo appreciation of the work don
in promoting real or supposed flnancia
u reform" In Shuckors book the hnancis
: I question Ia the basis Of the really remark
!, able chapters. We have nothing in liter
ature moro marked than his history Z
ID Mr.. Chase's financial policy, and especia
Is ly Of his action regarding the legal tende
b. issues. There is absolutely no undercul
i, n rent in tho narrstive-nothing but plai
Sssa 1td S sSta sRa eySni liz sR
Ir. battles the partisan and dissppoints th
10 general reader, because SO much is reves
, ed while SO little apparently has been nal
rated. Tho interest that must be felt !
as these chapters, slight as they arc, came
at fall short OF genuine sensation. Moth
va ing in the invective of the Democrat
l., leaders sgainst the national administri
y ton; nothing in Mr.. Dawes great speed
exposing the bankrupt condition of th
treasury; nothing that has been SAID, eithe
II for or against resumption touches 30 com
pletely the core Of the disease. This is nc
n owing in the slightest degree to NJ,
~ Schuckers' views of the financial question
10 for Mr.. Schuckers has no views Of his owl
In to express. The effort is In the narrative
" but it leaves tho narrative out Of the dis
:, | cussion, because Mr. Schuckers' story is q
colorlcss as water. Out OF this colorles
narrative, apparently SO harmless, bu
: possessed of tho explosive force of psrlol
a artillery, two great facts are deduclble-
=, the complete justification Of Mr.. Chase
! both as a fnancier and Il jurist, and TIL
C thorough condemnation OF his successor
in the treasury and on tho bench. A stg
ma is put upon Gen. Grants adminstra
ton which no administration ought 10 sur
a vive. We find MIR. Chase in the begin
= ming of tho war tho consistent foe o
every system of irredeemablo finance
| lie believed then, and continued TO believe
a till the day of his death, that it was posi-
: ble to carry on u great war upon hare
money basis The legal tender act wa,
f obnoxious to him whom 1t WAS proposed
when it WAS passed, and when it was Wig
y orously carried into execution. liz
accepted it just MS he accepted Bull Run
y and Big Bethel and the first days fight
at Pittsburg Landing. 1t was to him Xix,
n pouring out human life as sacrifice in
!. the Wilderness, ut Spottsylvanis, upon
il Coal Harbor and 30 around TO Petersburg
10 that Appomattox might be gained at last
"a 1t WAS like marching from Atlanta to tn,
No sea. But when peace came he would n,
80 more continue II than he would hav,
ar fought Grants and Sherman's battles owe
ar again. War measures had ceased with tn
be war. So from his high place as the Chic
as Justice OF the court Of last resort In tn
So land, he solemnly decreed that the Lega
n Tender act was unconstitutional. 1t was
in noble Judgement, and the one upon WIN cl
a. his fame will rcst. The subsequent pack
ge ing OF the court, the pitiful occasion seiz
An ed upon for the reversal of that decision
Of the pitful conferences and orders, no,
ch told, and ingoniously told for the frs
nv time in Mr.. Schuckers' narrative, by whic
we II was accomplished, have become histor,
lld TAKEN In connection with the legislatio
nd OF congress and the administration of tn
bis treasury by Mr.. Boutwell, and his succeI
pr sor, j. Is history, unfortunately, which di
,1 graces the government in its three co-or
". dinate branches, and dishonors the AmeI
leah people.
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