Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-28

"When the forces landed in Canada they landed with al
ardent ZEAL and stimulated with the hope Of conquest No
enemy appeared IN rie,o of us and had immediate and
vigorous attack been made Maiden would doubtless have
fallen an easy victory"
What then, becomes Of this Gen. Cass yauned piece Of
valor Why, sinks when understood. into the daring
deed of one who being edorer smooth rper 10 an easv
shore, Is the frst (heroic soul y to jump out!
But other prodges of courage came hard asr AMI in
Deed in this amazing military genius, hey tread each
others heels. He writ terrible proclamatona proclama-
ton that though il was June oze up the blood of all Upper
Canada, and sank the British thermometers quite down to
Montreal For fifteen years this ightfu piece Of paper was
Hull being ruined and rdculous looked on as preposeous
enough but Hull being dead, it instantly became no, only
the production Of Gen. Cass, but admirable specimen Of
military eoquence! To him the many Lives" all assign
i, with high encomium. That which quote says, (p j
Son entering Canada Gen. Hull distributed procama-
ton among the Inhabitants which, at the time had much
noorety, and was generally acrbed COL Cass it is now
known that he it. Whatever (opnion may have been
entertained Of the ngorous descent from promise TO full
fment il was generally regarded high-pred eloquent
and patriotic document"
Now, doctors difer" YEA even democratic ones far
that literary light Of Locofocosm Mr. Charles Jared Inper
so chaactezes this very composition in his History of
the War Of 1872, in the Bombastes He says o.
s0,) "Hul conquered Mackinaw," fby the British
capture OF that post before of the declaration war was
sent him. sit not before his march Unto Canada began,
hered By Pompors Gadhreatening proclamatioa." And
again (p s2) he says, "Huls vaporng proclamation only
provoked Gen. Brock to confront him." Tue Mr. Ingcr-
sosudgmen would probably have been reversed if he had
known the performance be that Of his candidate And
thus the merit Of this singular document has been rather
hard to Settle among democratic critics dtestabe or ex-
ceent according is supposed be written by this or
that authors mere "vcporng rumustan long as attri-
buted to Hu but admirable for "patriosm eoquence"
when claimed by Gen. Cass.
One remarkable quality in the exploits Of this thun-
debot of and of the is his deeds are such
nobody would have heard of nor suspected but for
himself If Drawing thousand Deaths he nvades Canada
the foremost Of the many heroes in Huls army him
alone that learn the dreadful fact Nay, but for him.
should have been ignorant Of the immortal circumstance Of
his catching rival hero by the coata and whipping ahead
of him in the slaughter Of that landing. So too If he funi
naes proclamation that congeas the little blood left in Ca
NADIA by his conquering And if such is his self
commemo'aon each bloody business where Gas he says)
no enemy in sight may imagine how he sets forth
his next achievement where with hundred and eighty
men, he positively in view Of of the hostile pckets
consisting Of perhaps fifty men, who fled at bis approach.
For this his report Gen. Hull (gven length on p
Of the Baltimore Of his great victory at the bridge of
Aux-Canards, which he calls Canus We will examine the
facts of this fierce fight in which accordng to hmsel
man was killed our side, American wounded, al
though he would have believe that there an action at
the bridge and that the beaten enemy made three stands in
their But observe his OF the affair. He
finds the bridge guarded by fifty men, obviously whou,
non, since he mentions What then, the difficult
y of forcing it. with six one But he (ts mighty
crosser does not dare 10 make the attempt no. he
marches his main body Gall fooD ford five miles
above; and Maiden (where the enemy in orce) being
only four miles off, he thus gave them by his brave general
ship, time to renfcrce-whch he says "lhey doing all
the afternoon" This, however, cannot be true for, having
the and hand they would clearly have sent
force enough, if they defend the bridge or If il
Of any Importance they would have destroyedit Well
Hannibal marches like the King of France with forty
thousand men, first up the river, de and then doca
the river the other making miles, BY The time he
in sight of tho enemy" it he himself
Bot lo his troops had kept too the rverbank,
and coming impossible creek found themselves obliged
TO march up mile, in order to effect passage. Here,
then, miles TO be marched after Must
not them have been dark before unknown ground
and without guide" they reached the bridge and the foe
That foe he says had meantime become o ." number con-
sideaby exceeding his" and had had time make their
and prepare for their defence Yet he who
had ycnured attack them with five and half times
he iorce, wnen they were unpfepared aHC without de-
fences falls at upon ga considerably superior force in
their "defcnces Well, they take fight his " first
fire J" he pursues three tines they rally three times he
again puts them to fight. He chases them half mile hut
night Just then and them from his cxermnating
arm Such his absurd story. But who can believe,
moment that between and dark Gen. Cass could
have marched two miles, fought pursued, dripsn the rallied
enemy before him three imcs and chased him half mile
Who hesitate to judge the whole fsht pure fiction
And either il that, is very curious specimen
Of General Cass's bojness and skill a commander.
But Gen. Hull evidently thought the whole battle imag-
nary one for his papers (fe Of Hull, p 3ii) pass the
whole thing with but the following mention Mean
mc July l6 Cos Cass and Miller detached, with
$50 men, towards Maden and took possession Of the bridge
over the Aux Canards, the British pcketguad flying
their approach"
Fellow citizens, you have before you Lewis Cuss What
he civilian let his allowances let his seryi-
hy many Administrations, let his in tho Mexican
war; let his conduct the Oregon question and the Wmot
poyso let his manifest destiny doctrines say and mi
lary man. these frs, vaunted facts in his "Lie" have
given you the first three specimen. From them you
can see how the would stand examination. There is
limit Of time and space would make his sodershp and
his sta,esmanshp equally ridiculous. am very plain
bu, perrps can make only myself understood but Gen.
Cass also JOHN A. ROGERS.