Abraham Lincoln : a history . y, if not all, theSouthern States, may be carried for the Democraticcandidates at the next election. He repeated this sanguine statement in his cor-respondence with other leading Democrats, but thenegotiation came to nothing; the Democratic Con-vention met in New York, and Mr. Chases name,mentioned by accident, gained a roar of cheersfrom the assembly, and one-half of one vote froma California delegate. He professed his entireindifference to the result, and took no furtherinterest in the canvass. An injudicious Republicanpolitician in New York asked him to address
Abraham Lincoln : a history . y, if not all, theSouthern States, may be carried for the Democraticcandidates at the next election. He repeated this sanguine statement in his cor-respondence with other leading Democrats, but thenegotiation came to nothing; the Democratic Con-vention met in New York, and Mr. Chases name,mentioned by accident, gained a roar of cheersfrom the assembly, and one-half of one vote froma California delegate. He professed his entireindifference to the result, and took no furtherinterest in the canvass. An injudicious Republicanpolitician in New York asked him to address aGrant meeting. He declined, of course, statingthat he could not unreservedly support the Repub-lican ticket, and that this was not the time fordiscrimination in a public address. The actionof the two parties has obliged me to resume withmy old faith my old position, . that of Demo-crat, by the grace of God, free and his old enemy, General Blair, came to thefront, in the progress of the canvass, and rather. ?,m%:mM^{ : GENERAL GEORGE CROOK. CHASE AS CHIEF-JUSTICE 401 overshadowed the more conservative Seymour, theChief-Justice intimated that men of his way ofthinking would be constrained to the support ofGeneral Grant. But if the political attitude of Mr. Chase in hislater years was a subject of amazement and sorrowto his ardent supporters, his decisions upon thebench were a no less startling surprise to those whohad insisted upon his appointment as the surestmeans of conserving all the victories of the who had sustained Mr. Stanton in his mostenergetic and daring acts during the war nowdeclared such acts illegal; he who had continuallycriticized, not always loyally, the conduct of thePresident for what he considered his weak reverencefor the rights of States, now became the earnestchampion of State rights; and finally the man towhose personal solicitations a majority of Congresshad yielded in passing the legal-tender act, withoutwhich he said that the
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