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Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's vital rival, Walter Stahr

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Salmon P. Chase

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Walter Stahr

Lincoln's vital rival

"Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860--but there would not have been a national Republican Party, and Lincoln could not have won the presidency, were it not for the vital groundwork Chase laid over the previous two decades. Starting in the early 1840s, long before Lincoln was speaking out against slavery, Chase was forming and leading antislavery parties. He represented fugitive slaves so often in his law practice that he was known as the attorney general for runaway negroes, and he furthered his reputation as an outspoken U.S. senator and progressive governor of Ohio. Tapped by Lincoln to become Secretary of the Treasury, Chase would soon prove vital to the Civil War effort, raising the billions of dollars that allowed the Union to win the war, while also pressing the president to emancipate the country's slaves and recognize black rights. When Lincoln had the chance to appoint a chief justice in 1864, he chose his faithful rival, because he was sure Chase would make the right decisions on the difficult racial, political, and economic issues the Supreme Court would confront during Reconstruction." --Book jacket

Introduction -- "He called me Yankee," 1808-26 -- "Metropolis of the nation," 1826-30 -- "First in Cincinnati," 1830-35 -- "Some great scheme," 1836-41 -- "To limit and localize...slavery," 1841-48 -- "Ambitious as Julius Caesar," 1848-49 -- "Freedom is national," 1849-50 -- "The question is not settled," 1850-53 -- "The Nebraska iniquity," 1854 -- "Our victory is glorious," 1855 -- "Avowed and determined," 1856-57 -- "Your noble Lincoln," 1858-59 -- "The interests of the cause," 1860 -- "Inauguration first, adjustment afterwards," 1860-61 -- "We have the war upon us," 1861 -- "Slavery must go," early 1862 -- "A new era," late 1862 -- "My fixed faith," early 1863 -- "Bringing to a second birth this same mighty nation," late 1863 -- "The salmon is a queer fish," early 1864 -- "So help me God," late 1864 -- "Universal suffrage," 1864-65 -- "The most dangerous man," 1866-67 -- "Mad with the presidential fever," 1868 -- "Indestructible union...indestructible states," 1869-70 -- "Quite content," 1871-73 -- Conclusion