The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-11-05
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democrats i'm the U. 5. senate.

Democrats in the U. S. Senate.
Il seems TO afford the wings much satisfaction,
that their parry is unusually strong in the Uni
ted States Senate, so far as talent is concerned,
numbering as il does such men as Webster Git
lenden, Davis, Evans Corwin, Berhen, eNd 9th
ers, as senatorial leaders; while they rather tauni-
ingly point TO the absence of several ofour best
men from that scene of their great triumphs, aud
ask us TO name the persons who are to meet their
great men. Woodbury., Buchanan, and Wright,
are gone, it is true, to other, and perhaps more
useful theatres of action. We can but regret it,
but, nevertheless, we by no means despair of our
position being made good in the Senate Cham
ber. Our foreign relations will afford, at the ap-
preaching session, more than one theme for dis
cusson; and there are two men in the Senate,
TO whom we can commit the advocacy of the de-
mocratic view of those questions, with the com
peest faith that they will be triumphantly vindi-
Gated. We al'ude to General CAss and Colonel
ALLEN. The latter gentleman, it is well known,
is Chairman ofthe Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, most responsible station at all
times, and peculiarly so at present. That Mr.
Allen will most faithfully discharge its duties.
that he is deeply impressed with the impor
tance of the position that he occupies, and is
prepared to bring all the energies of powerful
and well cultivated mind to bear upon our for
egn affairs, is we'll known 10 all who are acquaint-
ed with the man, and who know that il is not his
practice 10 do his appointed duty carelessly OF
lneggently. The speech on Texas made by
him at the last session of Congress, will not soon
be forgotten. 1t was one of the most original
arguments ever made in the Senate, and attract
ed a vast degree Of attention 1t sank deep in
to the popular mind, and its author is now look
ed to as one of the foremost advocates of Amer
can view of matters in dispute between the
United States and foreign powers. We know
that he will not dsapponl expectations so well
founded as these, which are based upon his for
mer noble efforts in his country's cause.
General Cass will be found very powerful
man in matters relating TO foreign policy He
won an undying fame while Ministerto TO France,
| by the admirable manner in which he drove back
the British dplomatists, in their attempts TO en-
slave the commerce of the world, and to make
of every national marine on earth, a sort Of sea-
lpolice, with which to enable their country TO OBJ
tain the undsputed control Of the great high
way of nations Ofmodern American diplomacy,
tina, is the masterpiece. Nothing is there like
| it in our history, since the time that the sage
Franklin procured the recognition of our Inde-
pendence by France, and opened the way to
tame the haughtiness of England, by bringing
the combined fleets of the great maritime pow
ers of the continent into the English Channel,
where, had they been rightly led, they might for
ever have wrested the ocean-sceptre from the
Trembling hands of the usurpng islanders. He
it was who exposed the designs of England to
the world, and showed that, under the garb of
meek philanthropy, she disguised the most dar-
ing schemes, pregnant with danger to every
other people, and likely TO leave no liberty 10
any nation---schcmes WHICH would have made
England realize in her policy the declaration OF
the buccaneers, as, like them, she would have
been the friend of the sea, aud the enemy of all
who sailed upon it. Such good services in past
days, leave us ample room to believe that we
shall yet receive better services from him in the
days which are rapidly approaching. Sagacious
Iofprofound knowledge, well versed in the policy
of other nations, and duly impressed with the
exalted destiny of America, General Cass will be
in himself host against those who will be found
warning in an American Senate in behalf of
British claims He will add rich wreath to his
already profuse laurels.
We would readily commit our cause TO the
gentlemen named; but there arc other men in
the Senate who will moi be found inferior antag
oniss by the wings. Dix. of New York, Lewis
of Alabama, Hannegan, of Indiana, Haywood
of North Carolina, Colquitt, Of Georgia, and 9th
ers who might be named, are men Of no ordinary
powers of mind. We may still add to our force
in the Senate, as Virginia, Tennessee, and Indi
ana, are yet to elect. What if Mr.. Owen should
be sent from the latter state, to aid with his mas
terly powers in upholding democratic principles
What if Calhoun's mighty mind should once
more enter on the scene Of its former glore
and triumphs?