All the impressions touching his Democratic tendencies had been deepened and increased during the Impeachment trial.

It was evident that he was not in harmony with the Republican senators, and he took no pains to conceal his willingness to thwart them, so far as was consistent with his duty, in the position of Presiding officer.
This demonstration of political sympathy, made manifest through judicial channels, had brought Judge Chase and the Democratic managers nearer together.

Both realized however that a complete change of position would defeat its own purpose.

On one important point indeed Judge Chase never wavered and was unwilling to compromise.

In all utterances and all communications he firmly maintained the principle of universal suffrage as the primary article of his political creed.
If the Democrats should accept him they must accept this doctrine with him.