Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-09-18

CHIEF JUSTICE CHAsE's CONSCIENCE.
The following is an extract from a noble
letter written by the late Chief Justice
Chase to Jay Cooke, in 1868:
You Informed me two OF three weeks
AGO that you had purchased SUI shares OF
Philadelphia and Erie railroad STOCK Ior
me. At that time [ was expecting means
of payment from the sale OF farm IN
Ohio and would have been glad 10 ilolo
the stock for income. The sale, however
has not vet been effected, and have there
fore, not been able to make payment.
This morning have yours OF Yesterday,
notifying me that you have sofa inc sI -;
at an advance which gives prohG OIL qf'-
200 Oh the transaction, and you lncloSe llie
a check for that amount.
AS | had not paid for the stock, and dld
not contemplate purchasing with any view
to resale, cannot regard the profit as NINE.
and, therefore, return the check for 81 2O0.
1t is herewith inclosed.
am much obliged to you for your Will
ingness to regard the money paid for the
stock as temporary loan from you to me.
But | cannot accept the favor.
When Congress, at the last session, saw
fit to clothe me with very large powers
over currency and financial movements,
determined to avoid every act which could
give occasion to any suspicion that would
use the powers conferred on me to affect
markets unnecessarily, orat all, with refer
ence to the private advantage Ct anybody
To carry out this determination faithfully,
must determine to decline any advantage
from purchases OF sales made with views
to profits expected from the rise or fall of
market prices.
For these reasons | must decline to re-
ceive the check. For, in order to be able
| to render the most efficient service to our
| country, it is essential for me to be right
as we'll as to seem right, and to seem right
as we'll as to be right.
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.-Th Chicago
| Times of September l, has the following
A little incident like the following will
| tend more toward bring about healthy
| feeling Of kindness between the North
and the South than ali the formal recon-
citations that officious and ingenious minds
can devise. A New York lady, noticing
that Major Jones, of Montgomery, Ala,
| in pronounclng an Grafton over the Con-
| federate dead, had none but kindly words
| for those who fell on the other side, and
| expressed himself eloquently and feelingly
! in favor Of reconciliation, commissioned
IL jeWelry firm to send him silver cup,
| suitably engraved, dis expressive Of her
appreciation Oh Inc Sell flt tx
and the regard Tor him which they gave
rise to. Her name was Wlthhell,. at l!e1
desire. but her letter to the jeweller was
| forwarded with the testimonial. Iii it she
said:
The war widowed me and took away
my two sons For a long time | felt as il
[ could never forgive those who slew the
defenders of the Stars and Stripes, but
when think of the war-widowed mothers
Of the South, and see such language as this
it makes me tenderer and juster to the
4 South. l feel that men like this Major
Jones must be noble and true i'll heart, and
fought and died because they thought ii
was right. [ want them to feel that such
sentiments echo in the Northern heart
and in truth tend to draw the whole
country together for its sealing"
The cup, as received by the major, was
inscribed as follows:
To
MAJOR THOMAS G. JONES,
The Orator on Confederate Memorial Day
April, 1874;
A Northern woman, widowed and bereft