CHAPTER V.

SALMON P. CHASE.

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.

WHEN a future generation shall be building the tombs of our present prophets, and adorning the halls of the Capitol with the busts of men now too hard at work to be sitting to the sculptor, then there will be among the marble throng one head not inferior to any now there in outside marks of greatness-a head to which our children shall point and say, "There is the financier who carried our country through the great slavery war!"

Not a small thing that to say of any man; for this war has been on a scale of magnitude before unheard of in the history of wars. It has been, so to speak, a fabulous war, a war of a

tropical growth, a war to

other wars, like the great Californian pine to the bramble of the forest. A thousand miles of frontier