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8 Case & Com. 145 (1901-1902)

handle is hein.journals/cscmt8 and id is 1 raw text is: Case and Comment NO'TES OF I C-NT IMPORTANT. INTERESTING Di CISiONS INDEX To ANNOTATION OF THE LAWYERS' REIPORTS. ANNOTATED LEGAL NEws NOTES AND FAcE-r7l.T VoL. S. J t', 1901. No. 1. CAZE AND COMMENT Mtonthly. Subscription. 50 e'i'nts peranuunu post- ra' id, Singi'e nuihl~el's_5 ('ellis. E'li LAW'RLS' CO -OPEnRATIVE PUB. CO., tEochester, N. Y. NESw Yomc, CHICAGO, I1 Naissa llU St. 116 Monroe St. Etcred at pOSlofitec at tchet ster, N. Y., as socond-class mail inaer. Salmon P. Chase. The sixth in the line of the Chief Justices of the United States Supreme Court is one who commands the highest respect as a judge, but whose judicial career was so brief, and his part in the work of President Lincoln's administration during the supreme struggle of the Civil War was so great, that history will douhtk s speak of him oftener as Secretary of the Treasury than as Chief Justice. Salmon Portland Chase was born at Corn- ish, New Hampshire, in 1808, the eighth of eleven children of Ithamar Chase, whose an- cestor, Aquila Chase, came from England about 1640. Ills mother was of Scotch blood. One of his fat her's brothers, Dudley, was a United States Senator and another, Philander, was the Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, with whom, after his father died, lie lived for three years. Ile graduated from Dartmouth College in 1826. lie then established a clas- sical school for boys in Washington, D. C., and studied law with William Wirt. Of course lie found time also to write a poem to Wirt's daughters, and thig was published. In 1830 he was admitted to the bar and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had the usual period of waiting for clients, and is said to have broken down in his first argument before a Federal court. About this time he prepared an edition of the Ohio stattles, with notes and historical introduction. Eminence in his profession came at length, and many important cases, especially in bank business. His political career was exciting and stormy. He was not closely identified with any political party whatever, but was most uncompromis- inig in his opposition to slavery. In 1837, when he defended a fugitive slave woman and attacked the constitutionality of the statutes under which she was claimed, an old lawyer said : There is a promising young man who has just ruined himelf. Twice he defended James G. Birney for harboring a fugitive slave. In a similar case he and William H. Seward, without compensation, defended John Van Zundt, the origina! of the John Van Trompe in Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1838 he reviewed with great severity a report of the judiciary coihmittee of the state senate denying trial by jury to slaves. On the organization of the Liberal party in Ohio in 1841 lie was a leader. He earned at length the name of the attorney general for runaway negroes. The colored people of Cincinnati presented to him a silver pitcher for his ser- vices in behalf of the oppressed. He wrote most of the Buffalo platform of 1843, on which James G. Birney was nominated for president, but a resolution offered, to the effect that the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution was not binding on the conscience, but might be mentally excepted in taking an oath, met the vigorous opposition of his clear brain and sturdy honesty. He presided over the Free Soil convention of 1818, in Buffalo, which nominated Martin Van Buren. In 1849 a co- alition of the Democrats and Free Soilers in the Ohio legislature made him United Statis

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