He knew Chief Justice Chase.
He introduced him to my friend on the cars, and they rode across Baltimore in one carriage, the two gentlemen, the Chief Justice, and the wife.

The Chief Justice talked to him whom he had just met for the first time during the whole ride of half an hour on the same engrossing subject, as he had to me before.
I think there can be no doubt that Chief Justice Chase, like many other great men, was consumed by an eager and passionate ambition for the Presidency.

That has been true of other great statesmen as well as of many small statesmen.

It has been specially true of great orators.

The American people are fond of eloquent speech.