Those words, spoken in the darkest hour of the anti-slavery conflict, have often seemed like a prophecy, in view of all the fast rushing events of the years that followed. Now they are verified. Where is the man who counselled the North to conquer their prejudices? Where is the man who raised a laugh in popular assemblies at the expense of those who believed the law of God to be higher than the law of men? There is a most striking lesson to young men in these histories. The grave of the brilliant and accomplished Douglas lay far back on the road by which Lincoln rose to fame and honor, and the grave of Webster on that of Charles Sumner, and on both of those graves might be inscribed "Lo, this is the man that made not God his trust." Both scoffed at God's law, and proclaimed the doctrine of expediency as above right, and both died broken down and disappointed; while living and honored at this day, in this land and all lands, are the names of those, who in its darkest and weakest hour, espoused the cause of Liberty and Justice. [Illustration: S. P. Chase] CHAPTER V. SALMON P. CHASE. England and our Finances in the War--President Wheelock and Mr. Chase's seven Uncles--His Uncle the Bishop--His sense of Justice at College--His Uncle the Senator--Admitted to the Bar for Cincinnati--His First Argument before a U. S. Court-- Society in Cincinnati--The Ohio Abolitionists--Cincinnati on Slavery--The Church admits Slavery to be "an Evil"--Mr. Chase and the Birney Mob--The Case of the Slave Girl Matilda--How Mr. Chase "Ruined Himself"--He Affirms the Sectionality of Slavery --The Van Zandt Case--Extracts from Mr. Chase's Argument--Mr. Chase in Anti-Slavery Politics--His Qualifications as a Financier. When a future generation shall be building the tombs of our present prophets, and adorning the halls of the Capitol with the busts of men now too hard at work to be sitting to the sculptor, then there will be among the marble throng one head not inferior to any now there in outside marks of greatness--a head to which our children shall point and say, "There is the financier who carried our country through the great slavery war!"