Wash. Ap. 25, 1854.
My Dear Sir: Your letter
reached me yesterday. I wish you would write me oftener.
I feel no great
anxiety as to the particular course which events may take in Ohio. If a genuine
Democracy can be formed out of the Liberals of the old parties and the Ind.
Democrats and nominate a ticket for Judge and Bureau of Public Works I should
be glad. If the old Democrats who are resolved to make war on the Baltimore
Platform and support in the future no National Candidates committed to its
anti-democratic doctrines, can hold a good convention and make good nominations
I shall have no objection to support their candidate. If neither of these
things can be done, I am for co-operation with the Whigs and giving them the
members Bureau of Public Works, and taking the Judge. The Whigs are now where
the old Dems. were four years ago, opposed to a Pro-slavery National
Administration therefore disposed to be antislavery. As we co-operated with the
old Dems, then we ought to co-operate with the Whigs now.
I don't fear their
getting the Members Bureau of Public Works this year. Next year we must have
the member, and the three parties will then be represented in the Board, which is
probably best for the State.
Yours truly,
[SALMON P. CHASE.]
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* From the
Pierce-Sumner Papers.
SOURCE: Diary and correspondence of Salmon P. Chase, Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1902, Vol.
2, p. 260
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