tors, I see now around me some with whom I have served long; there have been points of collision; but whatever of offense there has been to me, I leave here; I carry with me no hostile remembrance. Whatever offense I have given which has not been redressed, or for which satisfaction has not been demanded, I have, Senators, in this hour of our parting to offer you my apology for any pain which, in heat of discussion, I have inflicted. I go hence unencumbered of the remembrance of any injury received, and having discharged the duty of making the only reparation in my power for any injury offered. Mr. President, and Senators, having made the announcement which the occasion seemed to me to require, it only remains for me to bid you a final adieu. NOTES. SALMON P. CHASE. 1. Salmon Portland Chase was born at Cornish, N. H., January 13, 1808; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1826; studied law at Washington City under William Wirt, and was admitted to the Bar in 1829; began the practice of law at Cincinnati in 1830; compiled a notable edition of the Statutes of Ohio; became prominent in 1837 as defender of persons accused of violating the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793; became identified with the Liberty party in 1841, and participated in its national conventions, at Buffalo in 1843, and at Cincinnati in 1847; was a member of the National Free Soil Convention at Buffalo in 1848, which nominated Martin Van Buren for the presidency; was elected a United States Senator by a combination of Democrats and Free Soilers, serving from March 4, 1849, to March 4, 1855; was elected governor of Ohio in 1855 as a Free Soil Democrat, and re-elected as a Republican in 1857; was prominently considered as a nominee for the presidency by the Republican National Convention in 1860; was again elected to the United States Senate in 1860, but resigned the day after taking his seat to become Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln, which position he held until he resigned in 1864; was appointed in December, 1864, to the Chief-Justiceship of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving in that capacity until his death, May 7, 1873. Chase presided at the impeachment trial of President Johnson in |