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of Mr. Chase, of which U. S. Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, was Chairman, which was the first public breaking of ground in favor of Mr. Chase for the succession. It contained some severe reflections on Mr. Lincoln's capacity, and some offensive imputations against his administration as corrupt and feeble. It was met — not exactly answered — in the House of Representatives last Friday by a speech of Gen. Frank Blair, representative from the St. Louis city district, in Missouri, brother of Montgomery Blair, who is the Postmaster- General in Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet. It was a tremendous philippic against Secretary Chase, whom he denounced as a dangerous and ambitious intriguer, and boldly charged with corruption in office, saying that for the truth of the charge he held himself responsible as "a soldier, a gentleman, and a representative." Such language reminds one of the furious debates of the Mountain, during the stormy days of French Jacobinism. I paid of Mr. Chase, a pamphlet has be