CHASE ON STANTON.

Otago Witness, Issue 1205, 2 January 1875, Page 19

CHASE ON STANTON.

The new life of Chief-Justice Chase appears to contain a great amount of interesting matter relating to his contemporaries. In a letter to Horace Greeley, Mr. Chase, in September, 1802, wrote :

I cut a slip from the Republican, this morning, about Mr. Stanton. It is less than justice to him. He has faults like other men ; but his energy has been allimportant to v*. * * * T litre has been no necessity,huinanly speaking, for our ill- success. Providence has, as I belieA r e, confounded our counsels because of our complicity in crime against his poor. Mr. Stanton's voice has ever been on the side of the most vigorous and active employment of all our resources — moral and political, as Avell as physical. Not only did he urge the order to move on the 22 nd of February, but he proposed to the President and myself the trip to Fortress Monroe in the revenue cutter Miami ; he proposed and urged the sending of Rogers up the river, and the bombardment of Sewall's Point, Avith a view to the lauding of troops there by Gen. Wool, and a march upon Norfolk ; he cordially seconded my proposition to take the revenue cutter and go myself in search of a landing in Lynch-Haven buy, AA'hen landing at Sewall's Point Avns pronounced by Gen. Wool to be impracticable ; and when the landing Ava<s found in three or four hours, he urged Wool (nothing loath, by the Avay) to a prompt debarkation and march. The next day witnessed the march ; a panic, the capture of Norfolk, and the following morning the bloAving-up of the Merrimac. N. thing of all this, 1 verily believe, would have occurred but for Stanton's energy of Avill and thought.