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Show SALMON P- CHASE- The eudden and unexpected news ol tlio daagerous illnenb of Kaloion 1J. Chase, chief justice of tho Supreme Court of tho United 8tatea,was scarcely at hand yesterday afternoon ore it watt followed by tho report of bis duath. No previous iutitusUon of tho peril ioua condition oflhis cminont juriat and statesman had been given, and the news coiiicm with a midden uhok. All will juia in lauiuut fitr ihid loan. Chief jiiatieo Chase wua born in Cornitth, New -Hampshire, on 1 ho 13th of January, 1SU8. Graduating at Dartmouth iD 8li, ho began the study of law, beginning be-ginning tho practice of his profeB.iioD shortly after in Cincinnati, where he remained many yimra. Krora that time until the fall of liU'A, whuo he resigned the noriitioo of secretary of the treasuty, Mr. Chaso was prominent in polit'ion, holding many rcsponaiblo positions, among thorn that of me rubor of tho pcaco commiaaioD, in 180 1, that undertook to settle tho questions ques-tions at issue bo I ween tho north and tho south. Od tho 6th day of December, De-cember, 1801:, ho wad appointed by President Lincoln chief juatico of tho Supromo Court to succeed Roger B. Taney. By virtuo of this position he presided ovor tho United States senate during tho impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson. In tha death of ohiof justice Chase, the conservative element of the country coun-try Ioeos ono of its strongest defenders against tho encroachments of centralization. centraliz-ation. Who will succeed him, is a question that will be anxiously asked throughout tho length and breadth of tho land. Tho position being one that ia held during Hfo, it is a most important matter, to tho people, to havo as hiB successor a man whose ability is only equalled by his integrity and upright regard for justice and observance of tho law of the land. |