蔡斯任林肯政府财政部长,以其果敢善断的作风和精于理财的才干闻名全美.但他一直觊觎总统的职位,入阁两年多时间内,不断向政界人士、报刊编辑、牧师等有影响的人写信,吹嘘自己能干应该做总统,并指责林肯能力不足,一事无成.1864年总统竞选时,他更是四处奔走,不择手段地争当总统侯选人.当时不少政界人士奉劝林肯不要重用蔡斯,而林肯却说:“如果现在有一只叫总统欲的马蝇正叮着蔡斯先生.那么,只要它能使蔡斯那个部不停地跑,我就不想打落它.”对蔡斯仍信任如初.即使在蔡斯个人目的没有达到赌气辞职后,林肯还提议他担任联邦最高法院首席法官,使得蔡斯深受感动,更加勤奋地工作,成为美国历史上第一个反对奴隶制度的首席法官,为协助林肯埋葬奴隶制度起到重要的作用. Chase was Lincoln’s government finance minister, best known for his courageous and meticulous style of work and financial management skills, but he has been a president for more than two years, constantly to politicians, newspaper editors, pastors, etc. Influential people wrote letters boasting he could do the president and accused Lincoln of lack of capacity and nothing.When the presidential election of 1864, he was running around and fighting for the presidential candidate by any means.At that time, many politicians urged Lincoln not to reuse Chase, and Lincoln said: “If there is now a horse called the president of the horse fly Chase, so long as it can make Chase that department kept running, I do not want to knock it down.” To Cai Still confident that even after Chase’s personal intentions failed to pique his resignation, Lincoln also proposed that he be Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court, making Chase deeply moved and working diligently to become the first chief in the history of the United States to oppose slavery Judges play an important role in assisting Lincoln’s burial of slavery.