SELECTED LETTERS OF SALMON P. CHASE

From W. C. Bryant .

ROSLYN, LONG ISLAND
June 23d 1868

MY DEAR SIR - I thank you for your letter of the 19th, which is admirable in every respect. When I wrote to you the tide was running so strongly in your favor here - that is to say in New York - that it seemed to me impossible for the Convention of the 4th of July to avoid nominating you for the Presidency. You have surveyed the ground from a higher point of view and with a more comprehensive vision.
Parties will probably require another term of four years to adjust themselves to the new state of things consequent upon the civil war, and the reduction of the rebellion. In some way or other the policy of equal suffrage that is to say, suffrage without distinction of color, must be accepted sooner or later by both parties ies as the permanent policy of the country—as not only just but necessary to its domestic peace.
There is much in what you say of the power of influencing public opinion at the South which your present relation to political parties will give you. I have no doubt that the power will be exercised in such a manner as to add to the obligations which your country already owes you.
I am, dear Sir, very truly yours,
W. C. BRYANT,

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