The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, United States Senator and Governor of Ohio

What mattered it to him, or to the college, that, for the moment, this fame was checked and clouded, in the divided judgments of his countrymen, by the rising storms of the approaching struggle? But, instructed by the experience of the vanquished rebellion, none are now so dull as not to see that the consolidation of the Union, the demonstration of the true doctrine of the Constitution, the solicitous observance of every obligation of the compact, were the great preparations for the final issue of American politics between freedom and slavery.

To these preparations the life-work of Webster and his associates was devoted; their completeness and adequacy have been demonstrated; the force and magnitude of the explosion have justified all their solicitudes lest it should burst the cohesions of our unity. The general sense of our countrymen now understands that the statesmen who did the most to secure the common government for slavery and freedom under the frame of the Constitution, and who in the next generations did the most to strengthen the bonds of the Union, and to avert the last test till that strength was assured; and, in our own latest times, did the most to make the contest at last become seasonable and safe, thorough and unyielding and unconditional, have all wrought out the great problem of our statesmanship, which was to assure to us, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable." They all deserve, as they shall all receive, each for his share, the gratitude of their countrymen, and the applause of the world.

To the advancing generations of youth that Dartmouth shall continue to train for the service of the republic, and the good of mankind, the lesson of the life we commemorate, to-day, is neither obscure nor uncertain. The toils and honors of the past generations have not exhausted the occasions nor the duties of our public life, and the preparation for them, whatever else it may include, can never omit the essential qualities which have always marked every prosperous and elevated career. These are energy, labor, truth, courage, and faith. These make up that ultimate WISDOM to which the moral constitution of the world assures a triumph.-" Wisdom is the principal thing; she shall bring thee to honor; she shall give to thy head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee."

INDEX.

ABBOTT, LYMAN, letter to, 525.
Abolitionists, their sentiments, as ex-
pressed by Mr. Garrison in 1842, 67.
Adams, Greene, letter to, on Kentucky
affairs, 428.

Advertisement for School, at Washington,

22.

Ammen, Captain Daniel, letter to, 485.
Anderson, Larz, letter tó, on war expen-
ditures, 430.

Anti-Nebraska party, in Ohio, 165.
Army, estimates, 1861, 233; strength of,
December, 1861, 285; strength of, dur-
ing the war, 850.

Ashley, J. M., letter to, 519.

Assistant Treasurer's office, New York;
Mr. Cisco's resignation, 484.
"Attorney-General for negroes," 52.

Ball, Flamen, letter to, 498.
Banks, representatives of, confer with Mr.
Chase, 225; loans of, to Government, in
1861, 227, 228; urge Mr. Chase to forego
issue of U. S. notes, 230; suspend specie
payments, 231; national, proposed by
Mr. Chase, 240; condition of State, in
1861, 282; brief history of State, 285,
note; Mr. Chase renews recommenda-
tion of national, ib.; Mr. Hooper intro-
duces bill into Congress, 293; further
arguments of Mr. Chase, 293; national
system, sanctioned by Congress, 296;
leading features of the system, 296, et
seq.; change of public sentiment, in ro-
lation to national, 301; amendatory act,
302; vote on amendatory act, 807; con-
dition of national, in October, 1865, 309;
idem, in 1873, 310.

Bar, Mr. Chase's admission to, 80.
Barnburner Democrats of New York, their
withdrawal, in 1848, from National
Democratic Convention, 83; their State
Convention, and nomination of Mr. Van
Buren, 84.

Barney, Hiram, letter to, 275; appoint-
ment of, as collector at New York, 477;
"Conservative" assaults upon, 478; let-
ter to, 495; correspondence between
Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Chase about, 495;
letter to, on "Chase movement" in
1868, 583.

Beales, E. F., letter to, 892.

Brown, Colonel William, letter to, 592.
Bryant, Wm. C., letters to, financial ob-

jects, 405; McDowell and McClellan,
450; letter to, on the Democratic move-
ment in 1868, 588.

Buffalo Free-Soil Convention of 1848, 85;
its action, 85; its results, 87.
Burritt, Elihu, letter to, views of Mr. Chase
prior to the

880.

Butler, Benj. F., of New York, Mr. Chase's
letter to, in 1852, 180.
Butler, General B. F., letters to, on slavery,
875, 376.

Cable, Joseph, letter to, about General
Fremont, 482.

California, slavery exclusion in, 107.
Cameron, Secretary of War, his embarrass-

ments, 220; dismissed from war-office,
237; letter to, on war expenditures, 279.
Carey, Henry C., letter to, 364.
Carey, S. F., letter to, 398.
Carlile, John S., letter to, on matters in
West Virginia, 425.
Carlisle, George, letter to, 481.
Carrington, Colonel H. B., interview with
Secretary Cass, 181; publishes a volume
of military regulations, 186.
Carson, E. T., letter to, 451.

Caucus, Free-Soil members of Ohio Legis-

lature in 1848, 92; retiring of Morse and
Townshend, 92.

Certificates of indebtedness, 270.

in the country in 1861, 283; legislation
to prevent advance in price of, 856; fu-
tility of, 360, 361; rate of premium, 861.

Chase, Ithamar, birth and marriage, 3; Colyer, John, letter to, 591.

death, 8.

Dudley, 8 (see also 23).

Rev. Carleton, letter to, 889.

Edwin J., letter to, 82.

Estate, 2, note.

Miss Kate, letters to, 468, 469.
Miss Janet R., letters to, "taking
of Norfolk," 866, et seq. (see
also 520).

Bishop Philander, 4, 10, 16, 21.
Statutes of Ohio, 84.
Chase, Salmon Portland, birth of, 1; goes
to Ohio, 10; returns to New Hampshire,
17; at Dartmouth College, 19; at Wash-
ington, 22; pupil of William Wirt, 26;
admitted to the bar, 80; at Cincinnati,
81; Chase's "Statutes of Ohio," 84;
"Birney mob," 39; Matilda case, 41;
joins antislavery movement, 47; basis
of his antislavery, 46; case of John
Van Zandt, 52; the Watson case, 74;
Buffalo Convention, 85; elected U. S.
Senator, 93; takes his seat in that body,
105; compromise measures of 1850, 107,
et seq.; opposes them, 110, and fugitive
slave act, 123; appeal of Independent
Democrats, 140; opposes repeal of Mis-
souri prohibition, 151, et seq., elected
Governor of Ohio, 169; reelected U. S.
Senator, 194; Peace Conference, mem-
ber of, 208; Secretary of the Treasury,
207; proposes national banking system,
240; hostility to legal-tender paper, 242,
et seq.; judicial opinion on legal tender,
in Hepburn vs. Griswold, 258; national
banking system sanctioned by Congress,
296; five-twenties, negotiation of, 845;
ten-forties, 350; candidate for Presi-
dent, 1864, 476; resigns the Treasury,
486; is appointed Chief-Justice, 488;
Jefferson Davis's trial, 535, et seq.; pre-
sides upon impeachment of Andrew
Johnson, 550, et seq.; the "Chase move-
ment" in the Democratic party, 560;
personal characteristics, 594; the last
scene of all, 619-625.

Chief-Justice, Mr. Chase appointed to be,
488; correspondence concerning, 512;
powers of, in Senate court of impeach-
ment, 551.

Chittenden, Sterne, letter to, 455.
Cincinnati College, at school at, 15.
Cincinnati, Mr. Chase's arrival there in
1830, 81.

Cisco, John J., resigns office, 484; letter
and telegram to, 506; to Mr. Chase, 509.
Clarke, Peter H., and Corbin, J. C., Cin-
cinnati, letter to, suffrage and amnesty,
531.

Cleveland, Charles Dexter, letters to, 28,
80, 83, 95.

Cochrane, General John, letter to, "Gen-
eral McClellan," 457.
Coin, insufficient supply for war purposes,
230; premium on, 255; probable amount

Compound-interest-bearing notes out
standing on June 30, 1864, 8342.
Compromise measures of 1850, 109; Mr.
Chase's speech on, 109, et seg.
Congress, Mr. Chase's description of, in
1828, 27.

Conkling, Roscoe, against legal tender,

245.

Court, Circuit, Mr. Chase refuses to hold
in Southern States till abrogation of
martial law and restoration of writ of ha-
beas corpus, 535, et seq.; court at Raleigh,
June, 1867, 543.

Cowdin, Elliott C., letter to, 868.
Cranch, Justice, examines Mr. Chase, 30.
Custom-house, investigation of, in New
York, 478.

Dartmouth College, Mr. Chase enters and
graduates there, 19, 21.

Davis, Garret, letter to, on Kentucky af-
fairs, 276.

Davis, Jefferson, capture of, 533; the pun-
ishment that might lawfully be inflicted
upon him, 584; its inadequacy, 584; why
Mr. Chase did not hold court in Vir-
ginia, 535, et seq.; proposed application
to release on bail, 537; is pardoned,

545.

Demand-notes, $50,000,000 authorized,
221; issued, 224.
Democratic party, the real, aims at extinc-
tion of slavery, 71; proposed nomi-
nation of Mr. Chase in 1868, 560.
Dennison, Mr. Chase's letter to Governor
William, resigning seat in the Senate,

207.

Depreciation of U. S. notes, 254, 255.
Diary, extracts from Mr. Chase's: On
military affairs in Virginia, 436; the
President on slavery and the war, 439;
urges removal of General McClellan, 440;
advocates arming of slaves, 441; pro-
tests against continuing General McClel-
lan in command, 443;Notes on Union
of the Armies of the Potomac and the
Army of Virginia," 445; danger to
Washington, 452; concerning his resig-
nation from the Treasury, 509; his rela-
tions with Mr. Lincoln, 510, 511; mur-
der of the President, 518.
Dickinson, Daniel S., letter to, 494.
Direct tax, $20,000,000, authorized, 222;
history of, 223.

Dix, John A., Mr. Chase's letter to, 158.
Dodge, Wm. E., letter to, specie the basis
of sound currency, 400.

INDEX.

Douglas, Stephen A., on the original Ne- |
braska Bill, 127; reports Nebraska Bill
of 1854, 185; makes some delicate ques-
tions clear by proposing repeal of Mis-
souri Compromise, 188; denounces ap-
peal of the Independent Democrats, 149.
Drake, Charles D., at school at Worthing-
ton, 18; extracts from remarks of, 35;
in the impeachment trial of President
Johnson, 554.

Duer, Denning, letter to, 505.

Duffield, Miss Eliza 8., letter to, 404.
Duganne, Colonel A. J. H., letter to, 592.
Duties, tariff, authorized at the extra ses-
sion, 1861, 222; internal, 233.

Education, Mr. Chase's letter on, 170.
Emancipation, early views of Mr. Chase
on, 276; 875, 876; the President's proc
lamation, 453; Mr. Chase's letter and
draft of proclamation, 461, 463.
Emigrant Aid Societies, 164.
Estimates for 1862, 216; of the value of the

nation's real and personal property, 234.
Exchange, foreign, Treasury sales of, 361.

Fessenden, W. P., on legal tender, 247;
letter of Mr. Chase to, on importance of
taxation, 385; letter to, on financial
matters, 414; the chief-justiceship, 512.
Field, Associate-Justice Stephen J., letter
to, on reconstruction, 526.

Field, M. B., nominated Assistant Treas-
urer at New York, 484.
Finances, disordered condition of, in 1861,
209, 211; Mr. Chase's financial objects
summarized, 406; results of those ineas-
ures, 410; letter of Mr. Chase to Colo-
nel Van Buren on, 412; to Mr. Fessen-
den, 414.

Fiscal operations for fiscal year 1861, 214;
to November, 1861, 231.
Five-twenties, negotiation of, 845, et seq.;
splendid success of that loan, 348.
Flanders, Benj. F., letter to, 889.
Fractional currency, 841.
Freedmen's Bureau, origin of, 828.
Fremont, General John C., letter to, 275;
Mr. Chase on his proclamation against
slavery, 277.

Fugitive slave law of 1798, unconstitu-
tional, 75; Mr. Chase's earnest opposi-
tion to that of 1850, 114; Mason's bill,
124; evil results of, 128.
Funding loans, Mr. Chase's objects in re-
spect of, 407.

665

Giddings, J. R., candidate for U. S. Senate
in 1848, 98; letter of Mr. Chase to, 99;
id., 100.

Gillmore, General Q. A., letter to, on mil-
itary progress, 396.
"Gold Bill," 859.

Gold, premium on, 255; futile efforts to
prevent advance in price of, 356; Gov-
ernment sales, 358; average premium
on, 862; tables of premium for four
years, 631.

Governor, election of Mr. Chase to be, of
Ohio, 169; reelection, 188.
Grant, General, letter tó, 470.
Gray, William, letter to, 488.
Greeley, Horace, letters to, financial, 886;
personal, 894; letter to, in defense of
Mr. Stanton, 452.

Griswold, George, letter to, on the war,
Greene County slave-hunt, 177.

887.

Guthrie, James, letter to, on supplies,to
rebels, 426.

Habeas corpus, Mr. Chase refuses to hold
court in rebel States during suspensions
of, 585.

Hall, James C., letters to, "the presiden-
cy," 497, 502.

Halstead, Murat, letters to, 281; on "Stan-
ton," 398; on military affairs, 436; "third
party," 582.

Hamilton, Alexander, on paper issues by
Government, 240, note.

Hamilton County, Ohio, Whig division of,
in 1847, 90.

Hamilton, John C., letter to, 278.
Harrington, George, for legal tender, 243
(see also, 224, 512).

Harrison, Wm. H., Mr. Chase votes for, in
1886 and 1940, 89, 40; supposed views
of, 45; pledge of, on slavery in District
of Columbia, 46.

Heaton, Jacob, letter to, 497.
Heckscher, C. A., letter to, on tax bill,
884.

Henderson, Senator, of Missouri, 558.
Hepburn vs. Griswold, case of, 258.
Hilliard, Henry W., letter to, on recon-
struction, 528.

Hoffman, H. W., letter to, on Maryland
affairs, 890.

Hooker, General, letters to, 467, 468, 471.
Hooper, Samuel, introduces national bank-
ing bill into Congress, 292.
Hoyt, William S., 8.

Hunt, Randall, letter to, on the State of
the Union, 199.

Lauretta Hitchcock, letters to, 24, 81.
Leavitt, Joshua, letter to, expresses pref-
erence for a judicial position, 393; let-
ter to, on Monroe doctrine, 898; letter
to, on taxes, 400.

Legal-tender paper-money, Mr. Chase's
hostility to, 242; letters to Mr. Trow-
bridge, to Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, and to
Committee of Ways and Means, 243-245;
$150,000,000 authorized, 249; further is-
sues, 250; summary of issues, 252, 253;
justified by war experience, 258, et seq.;
case of Hepburn vs. Griswold, 258.
Legislature, composition of, in Ohio, 1848,

90.

Liberty party, organization of, in Ohio,
47; first convention of, 47; address of,
written by Mr. Chase, 47; proposes a Na-
tional Convention for national work, 50;
National Convention of, at Buffalo, in
1843, 63; John Pierpont's resolution of
66 mental reservation," 70; Southern and
Western Convention of 1845, 70; ad-
dress of, 71; National Convention, at
Buffalo, 1847, 81; Mr. Chase's call for
State Convention in Ohio, 81.
Lincoln, President, election of, 198; in-
vites Mr. Chase to conference at Spring-
field, 201; interviews between, and Mr.
Chase, 201; appoints Mr. Chase Secre-
tary of the Treasury, 207; Mr. Chase's
letters to, on financial affairs, 388, 402,

466; Mr. Chase's letters to, on pro-
visioning of Fort Sumter, 423; - in re-
spect to Maryland disunionists, 424;
-on admission of West Virginia, 459;
on emancipation, 461; -on reconstruc-
tion, 514; his remarks on emancipation,
458; accepts Mr. Chase's resignation,
486; his judgment of Mr. Chase, 488;
appoints Mr. Chase to be Chief-Justice,
488, 513; letter of thanks from Mr.
Liverpool, T. N. C., letter to, on suffrage
Chase to, 518.
and amnesty, 581.

Lloyd, Demarest, extract from article of,
83; letters to, Cincinnati Convention,
598; extracts from his article, "Home-
Life of Salmon Portland Chase," 620,
627.

Loan, national, authorized, 218; $100,000,-
000 authorized in Europe, 221; agents,
229; summary of acts authorizing, 338,
et seq.; Mr. Chase's operations under,
842.

Loans of 1861, 227; objections to long
loans, 408.

Long, Colonel Alexander, letters to, on
New York Convention, 578, 589.
Lyons, James, letter to, on universal suf-
Ludlow, Major B. C., letter to, 466.
frage and amnesty, 586.

Manning, Captain H. B., letter to, on dec-
orating Confederate graves, 529.
Mansfield, E. D., letter to, on military
affairs in Virginia, 489.

Martial law, Mr. Chase's refusal to hold
court in rebel States until abrogation of,

535.

Mason, James M., of Virginia, his fugitive
slave bill, 123; denounced by Demo-
crats as a "bill of abominations," 124;
Mr. Chase's opposition to it, 124; evil
effects of, 128.

Matilda, the case of the slave, 41.
Matthews, Stanley, letter to, 518.
McClellan, General George B., called to
Washington, 224; cordial letter to, 427;
letter to, "the army and the Treasury
must stand or fall together," 433; Mr.
Chase urges removal of, from command
of the army, 440, 448; "Notes on Union
of the Armies of the Potomac and the
Army of Virginia," 445.
McDowell, General, 865; letter to, on
military matters, 485; Mr. Chase's let-
ter to Mr. Bryant, 450.
McMurdy, Rev. Dr., letter to Mr. Schuck-
ers, 628.

McKim, J. M., letter to, 525.
Medill, Joseph, letter to, on "gold notes,"
278; banks, 883.

Mellen, William P., letter to, on inter-
State commerce, 819; "political meta-
physics," 364; national banks, 386, 520.
Mercier, M., minister of France, letter to,
on French decimal system, 895.
Military, certain matters, in charge of, by
Mr. Chase, 418; partial reorganization
of U. S. Army, 419.

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