CHASE, Salmon P. Autograph letter signed ("S. P. Chase"), as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to Mrs. Irvin McDowell, Washington, 24 April 1866. 4 pages, 8vo .
CHASE, Salmon P. Autograph letter signed ("S. P. Chase"), as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to Mrs. Irvin McDowell, Washington, 24 April 1866. 4 pages, 8vo . "I CANNOT HELP FEELING GRAVE CONCERN FOR THE COUNTRY, Chase tells Mrs. McDowell. He fears "new convulsions" from former slave owners restored to prominence by President Andrew Johnson's lax reconstruction policies. "How strange it seems, this extensive change which has happened in these last four years! How wonderful the transition and the events: and yet how little the wiser we seem to be for them all. To me it's been as if the very same elements of disturbance were being permitted, and in new names & character to prepare new convulsions. I cannot help feeling grave concern for the country; and should be really heartsick if I did not remember that God rules; & that God is Love, and that thousands of prayers continually go up before Him from sincere & devoted hearts that He will bring Good out of apparent evil. The controversy between the President & Congress is greatly to be deplored. Doubtless there are faults on both sides; but I think most on his. He is a Unit, Congress a Plural....and a very little consideration would have availed all our trouble."R
CHASE, Salmon P. Autograph letter signed ("S. P. Chase"), as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to Mrs. Irvin McDowell, Washington, 24 April 1866. 4 pages, 8vo .
CHASE, Salmon P. Autograph letter signed ("S. P. Chase"), as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to Mrs. Irvin McDowell, Washington, 24 April 1866. 4 pages, 8vo . "I CANNOT HELP FEELING GRAVE CONCERN FOR THE COUNTRY, Chase tells Mrs. McDowell. He fears "new convulsions" from former slave owners restored to prominence by President Andrew Johnson's lax reconstruction policies. "How strange it seems, this extensive change which has happened in these last four years! How wonderful the transition and the events: and yet how little the wiser we seem to be for them all. To me it's been as if the very same elements of disturbance were being permitted, and in new names & character to prepare new convulsions. I cannot help feeling grave concern for the country; and should be really heartsick if I did not remember that God rules; & that God is Love, and that thousands of prayers continually go up before Him from sincere & devoted hearts that He will bring Good out of apparent evil. The controversy between the President & Congress is greatly to be deplored. Doubtless there are faults on both sides; but I think most on his. He is a Unit, Congress a Plural....and a very little consideration would have availed all our trouble."R
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