Abstract
Abstract Chase’s social life and to some extent his legal business had become secondary to a passion for politics. After the Wilmot debates, antislavery gained in acceptance. The division in the Democratic party and the end of the Mexican American War fueled the movement. Chase now bent every effort to head off any Liberty party nomination for the Presidency in 1848. Most of the eastern leadership except Bailey and Lewis Tappan were insisting on a nomination. Their favorite candidate, if not Birney, was John P. Hale, recently elected to the United States Senate from New Hampshire and one of the few distinct antislavery members of that body. Chase tried to dampen the Hale enthusiasm indirectly. He pointed out to his eastern colleagues that the new senator’s ability to further antislavery goals should not be jeopardized by formal identification with the Liberty party.
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