Statesmen . Keenly ambitious, he was justifiedby his talents, however mistaken his time andhis methods, in aspiring to the highest place. Chase had all along clung to the propositionthat no President should have a second term ofoffice, and he had added the opinion that a manof different qualities from those of Lincolnwould be needed for the next four years suc-ceeding his first term. A few days after theappearance of the so-called secret circular ofPomeroy, the Republican members of the OhioLegislature passed a resolution in favor of Lin-colns renomination, upon which Chase with-drew his name
Statesmen . Keenly ambitious, he was justifiedby his talents, however mistaken his time andhis methods, in aspiring to the highest place. Chase had all along clung to the propositionthat no President should have a second term ofoffice, and he had added the opinion that a manof different qualities from those of Lincolnwould be needed for the next four years suc-ceeding his first term. A few days after theappearance of the so-called secret circular ofPomeroy, the Republican members of the OhioLegislature passed a resolution in favor of Lin-colns renomination, upon which Chase with-drew his name as a candidate. It may be saidthat the opposition to Lincolns renominationpractically ended then and there, although itstill showed itself in fitful bursts of restlessnessbefore his renomination at Baltimore, in thesummer of 1864. Later in that year, Roger B. Taney, that ex-Secretary of the Treasury who had been re-warded with the great office of Chief Justice ofthe Supreme Court of the United States by An-. 170 STATESMEN drew Jackson, for his subserviency in the mat-ter of removing the public deposits from theUnited States bank, died. By a curious coinci-dence, another ex-Secretary of the Treasury,but far more renowned, honest, and pure, wasnominated to take his place. While the officeremained unfilled, there was great concernthroughout the country over the possible actionof President Lincoln. Sumner and many oth-er advanced Republicans besought Lincoln tonominate Chase; but, on the other hand, thePresident was overwhelmed with expostulationsfrom his own friends, who besought him to re-member that the man whose nomination seemedimminent had been his rival in the precedingcanvass for the Presidential nomination, and towithhold from him this high honor. One dayduring the pendency of this doubt I had occa-sion to see the President in his private was in gay humor, and asked what was thenews. I said : Mr. President, there is no news. Very well, he said ; what are people t
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