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It remains to be seen whether his criticism of Secy. Chase's financial ["the "an" in "financial" is inserted above with a carat] system is just. And in his examination of the "recreant" Secretary's anti slavery record calling his principle "base metal" unable to stand the test, even Horace thought him altogether, too severe.

In short in seemed to me no one of the public men whose names had been mentioned during his discourse had by their acts won his esteem so much as John Brown. Surely his thoughts on the subject of reconstruction were very