Salmon P. Chase: A BiographyOxford University Press, 9 Mac 1995 - 576 halaman Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure. As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the highest moral purposes--the freedom and equality of all mankind--these lofty ideas failed to mask a thirst for power so deeply ingrained in his character that it drove away many who shared his principles, but mistrusted his motives. Niven provides a vivid description of Chase's early years--his childhood in New Hampshire (where his father's failed business venture and early death left the family all but destitute) and in Ohio (where he was sent to live with his uncle Philander, an Episcopal bishop), his education at Dartmouth, and his early law career in Cincinnati. Niven shows how the plight of the slaves stirred this reticent young lawyer, and how Chase gradually moved to the forefront of the antislavery movement. At the same time, we see how he used his growing prominence in the antislavery movement to forward his political ambitions. Niven illuminates Chase's long tenure as a public man. Twice elected United States Senator, twice chosen governor of Ohio (then the third most populous state in the Union), Chase organized the widespread but diffuse anti-slavery movement into a workable political organization, the Free Soil party (whose slogan "Free Soil, Free Labor, Freemen" Chase coined himself). We read of Chase's work in Lincoln's war cabinet and his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and we also follow his many political maneuvers, his attempts to undercut rivals, and his poorly run campaigns for presidential nominations. Niven also provides an intimate portrait of Chase's family life--his loss of three wives and four of his six children, and the unfortunate marriage of his beautiful daughter Kate to a rich but dissolute man--and a vivid picture of life at mid-century. What emerges is a portrait of a tragic figure, whose high qualities of heart and mind and whose many achievements were ultimately tarnished by an often unseemly quest for power. It is a striking look at an eminent statesman as well as a revealing glimpse into political life in 19th-century America, all set against a background of the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, and the turmoil of Reconstruction. |
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... in the drive to end slavery , in his financial policies as Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War , in his role as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of the Reconstruction years . And he played.
... in the drive to end slavery , in his financial policies as Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War , in his role as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of the Reconstruction years . And he played.
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A Biography John Niven. the turmoil of the Reconstruction years . And he played a constructive role as presiding officer over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in the senate . Despite his years of service as a distinguished ...
A Biography John Niven. the turmoil of the Reconstruction years . And he played a constructive role as presiding officer over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in the senate . Despite his years of service as a distinguished ...
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5 A Distant Shore | 55 |
6 To Recognize the Distinctions | 71 |
7 Climbing the Slippery Pole | 87 |
8 Free Soil Free Labor and Free Men | 99 |
19 War | 243 |
20 No Other Recourse | 259 |
21 Military Moves and Missions | 274 |
22 High Stakes | 290 |
23 Emancipation with Exceptions | 302 |
24 Mixed Results | 314 |
25 Old Greenbacks | 330 |
26 Bad Company | 346 |
9 Among the Great | 114 |
10 Midpassage | 129 |
11 Independent Democrat | 140 |
12 An Uncertain Future | 153 |
13 On the Campaign Trail | 165 |
14 As Others See Us | 176 |
15 For the Good of the Party | 191 |
16 Defeat at the Summit | 206 |
17 Visit to Springfield | 222 |
18 Loaves and Fishes | 233 |
27 It Is a Big Fish | 355 |
28 So Help Me God | 367 |
29 A Trip South | 384 |
30 Universal Suffrage Universal Amnesty | 397 |
31 Impeachment | 415 |
32 One Clear Call | 433 |
Abbreviations Used in Notes | 453 |
Notes | 459 |
Index | 529 |
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Halaman 437 - Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States and the maintenance of their governments are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the national Government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Halaman 276 - If something was not soon done, the bottom would be out of the whole affair; and if General McClellan did not want to use the army, he would like to borrow it, provided he could see how it could be made to do something.
Halaman 445 - Independent authority of the states, are distinctly recognized. To them nearly the whole charge of Interior regulation Is committed or left; to them, and to the people, all powers, not expressly delegated to the national government, are reserved.
Halaman 400 - States, must have been extended to all colored men, wherever found, and so must have established a change of suffrage in the Northern, Middle and Western States, not less than in the Southern and Southwestern. Such an act would have created a new class of voters, and would have been an assumption of power by the President which nothing in the Constitution or laws of the United States would have warranted.
Halaman 218 - Looking from the stage over the vast amphitheatre, nothing was to be seen below but thousands of hats — a black, mighty swarm of hats — flying with the velocity of hornets over a mass of human heads, most of the mouths of which were open.
Halaman 79 - In a State where slavery is allowed, every colored person is presumed to be a slave ; and, on the same principle, in a non-slaveholding State, every person is presumed to be free without regard to color.
Halaman 220 - I rise (eh), Mr. Chairman (eh), to announce the change of four votes of Ohio from Mr. Chase to Mr. Lincoln." The deed was done. There was a moment's silence. The nerves of the thousands, which through the hours of suspense had been subjected to terrible tension, relaxed, and as deep breaths of relief were taken, there was a noise in the wigwam like the rush of a great wind, in the van of a storm — and in...
Halaman 90 - ... whether as private citizens or as public functionaries sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, to regard and to treat the third clause of the fourth article of that instrument, whenever applied to the case of a fugitive slave, as utterly null and void, and consequently as forming no part of the Constitution of the United States, whenever we are called upon or sworn to support it.