Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER V.--SALMON P. CHASE.

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England and our Finances in the War--President Wheelock and Mr. Chase's Seven Uncles--His Uncle the Bishop--His Sense of Justice at College--His Uncle the Senator--Admitted to the Bar for Cincinnati--His First Argument before a U. S. Court--Society in Cincinnati--The Ohio Abolitionists-- Cincinnati on Slavery--The Church admits Slavery to be "an Evil"--Mr. Chase and the Birney Mob--The Case of the Slave Girl Matilda--How Mr. Chase "Ruined Himself"--He Affirms the Sectionality of Slavery--The Van Zandt Case--Extracts from Mr. Chase's Argument--Mr. Chase in Anti-Slavery Politics--His Qualifications as a Financier. 241