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The public who listened to Mr, Chase under- a stood him to say that there never was any p memorandum in his hvnd-writing touching his election to the Senate, and that, if any such ^ paper were in existence, it was a forgery. I tiave been spoken to by a number of persons who understood him as denying in toto the a authorship of any Memorandum on the subject. tfpon looking narrowly at the reported speech, I find a nice piece of technical pleading on this point. It amounts to a denial that 1 there is such a memorandum in manner and farm as charged. Mr. Chase would have * done himself credit and me jnstice, if, instead of attempting to fix a falsehood on me, he had admitted the existence of some memorandum on the suttfect, produced the original paper, and read it to the people, and shown them that it did not embrace or refer to the Job for the disputed seats. The best way to satisfy the public of what a paper does not contain, is to nhow them what it does contain. If he had done this, I should hate been ready the next morning to have admitted that 1 had been mis- c informed as to the contents of the paper. But, c iike Judge Matthews, he ignores the idea that j there ever was a paper of the sort, and challenges its production. Judge Matthews might well do this, because he probably never saw a the paper. But Mr. Chase did see it, and G wrote it, and cannot hare forgotten it.Taking it for granted that there was and is such a paper, what does the difference between us amount to ? Simply this : 1 was led to he-.ieve, as a matter of history, lhat there was one large bargain, embracing all the jobs of the winter; whilst, as Judgs Matthews says, and Mr. Chase claims, the agreement that Morse and Townsend should give the Democrats th* disputed seats, and that the black laWs should be repealed, was a separate job; and all the other arrangemc nts, provided tor in the written memorandum, was another and different job, less offensive to ones9 sense of honor.Mr. Chase says in his speech as reported: “Now if an arrangement or that sort had been made, yon can see what its nature would have been. It would have been an arrangement on the part of those two gentlemen, who were admitted to their seats, to receive their seats in consideration of giving their votes for me—an arrangement on the part of those who voted for it, to give their votes on a judicial question in consideration that a friend of theirs should receive certain political advantages. If those things had been done and i had not repented of it at once, it would hare been a satisfactory justification for ay man declining to vote for me—it would have been as bad as to go to the Court Houce and there make an arrangement with a Judge that he should decide a particular judicial question one way or another for a consideration of a political character, or any other.” Now this is placing his friends, Town • send and Morse, who did, according to Judge Matthews, decide this question of constitutional law “for a consideration,” in an awkward position; and if, as ia not denied by Judge Matthews, Mr. Chase was cognisant of what they were about, it is placing himself in an awkward position, too.-v. .•»* . . m a % . • »
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Dollar Weekly Times
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1855
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