Note 15 — Chapter IX · “Unionism”—Black and White, in Charleston and Through South Carolina.

This was Mr. Chase’s single “speech” during the entire trip. Ten minutes, or less, of familiar and fatherly talk to helpless negroes, advising them to industry, economy and good order, telling them he thought they should vote, but didn’t know whether the Government would agree with him, and advising that, if the right of suffrage should be refused them, they should behave so well, educate themselves so fast, and become so orderly and prosperous, that the Government should see they deserved it; this was what subsequently became, in certain Northern newspapers, “Chief-Justice Chase’s endless stump speeches, and shameless intriguing with old political leaders, in his electioneering tour through the South.” The speech is given in full in the appendix (A).