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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 7: Salmon Portland Chase (search)
a good fighter. That he did, in fact, sympathize with the slaves was shown by his professional work in their behalf, more particularly in pleading without fee or other reward the cases of escaped fugitives in the courts. So numerous were his engagements in this regard that his antagonists spoke of him sneeringly as the Attorney-General for runaway niggers. Upon some of his Anti-Slavery cases he bestowed an immense amount of work. His argument in the case of Van Zant — the original of Van Tromp in Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin,--an old man who was prosecuted and fined until he was financially ruined for giving a lift in his farm wagon to a slave family on its way to Canada, was said at the time to have been the most able so far made in the Supreme Court of the United States. That and other similar utterances by Mr. Chase were published for popular reading, and were widely distributed by friends of the cause. It is possible that, in performing this arduous labor, Mr. Chase,