Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-10-25
Lewis CaSs.

"A purer, better, a nobler-minded man
than Lewis Cass, we do not believe ever
lived. You may take his private history
from infancy to manhood, and from man
hood to old age, and yon shall not find in it
a spot worthy of reproach. 40
"As for his fitness for the Presidency, no
mortal man, we fancy, dou BITS it. His tall
ents, all the world will admit, are OF the
highest order; his experience has been vast :,
his patriotism is undoubted. As man, he
is frank, generous, bid, and open-handed;
as Statesman, he may be ranked with the
ablest Of the age" - .-,---,... a-.s,,s ~
Such is the high eulogy the New York
Atlas, paper neutral in politics, passes
upon the Presidential standard bearer Of the
Democracy of the Union. Through life
Gen. Cass has sustained a character that
slandcr has seldom dared assail, and when
she did, like gold tried by fire, SANDER has.
had but the effect to make his virtues the
more conspicuous.
To the early pioneers Of the West, he was
the friend, were friends most were needed,
and the west is filled with anecdotes of his
generous and open handed iberality to those
stricken by poverty or by sickness. His ta-
BILE has ever been the hospitahle board-his
purse ever open to the calls of the unfortu-'
nate his advice was never wanting TO
those who asked it, and his cheering words
to many who desponded, have melted them
to renewed exertion. In all the relations
OF life, as husband, father, frieLd and
nelghbor, Lewis Cass has sustained char
aster thct any man might envy.
As Democrat, he has been tried, AID
rever was found waiting. At an early age
he avowed himself q disciple of the school ,f
MIR. Jefferson, aid tie cleed If that great
Apostle of Demec,acy has ever governed
his subsequent career. In the stormy trials
which Gen. jackson had with the Bank OF
the United States, Lewis Cass was by his
side, and stood firm as old Hickory Himself
In the strong measures taken against that
mammoth institution, while he was Gen.
Jackson's Secretary of War, his ConstittA
tionsl adviser, his tried and true friend, a.
like in sunshine, ard when the storm of
Bank panic came, which many believed
would overwhelm him.
AS statesman, Lewis Cass has name
and fame, which 40 living American ever
had. His defeat of the Quintuple Treaty..
where single-handed and alone, be met,
grappled with and foiled the best trained
statesmen of England, struggling for. the
right OF that nation to search the vessels of
the world, sailing the high seas, is tie
Growing act Of Lewis Cass' eventful lie.
Great as have been his other achievements,
on the field, in the cabinet, and in the coua-
clls OF the ia ton, that act--tl.e defeat of
that Treaty, under the circumstances, r:.ts
the other ac.s Of his Iif:, and the acts of other
statesmen iLto the shads He was not sus-
tanned by his Government, for Mr.. Web
ster then ruled Mr. Tyler, who administer
ed the affairs of the Government, but be
was sustaided by the Democracy of the ma
ton, and by the honest aid tie patriotic OF
all parties. '.
The Senatorial career of Gen. Cass was
brilliant beyond president. Without prac-
tice as Parliamentary debater-without
experience in the rules, he responded to the
call of his State, ard went to the Senate
marked man. The whig Presidential aspi-
rants were ready for the task their knives
were already whetted for the sacrifice, ard
they fancied the victory an easy one. They
who met Gen Cass in debate, grappled with
a giant in intellect, and the wing leaders
are welcome to all the Lonors they won.
On the war question, Cen. Cass stood
forward the champion Of the po or soldier
the champion of the nation. He believed
the war on our part as just war as was
ever waged, and he defended it as patriot
should defend his own country when it is
assailed, and for this he has been denounc-
ed by those who took the part Of the enemy
in the late war with Mexico.
When Gen Cass accepted the nomina-
ton of the democracy for President, The re-
tired from the Senate, as did Cen. Jackson
in 1925, to private life. On the 4th of
March next, il so long his life be spared, he
will again be in Washington, to take upon
himself the oath of ofiec as President of the
United States. -. -......, ~,
In his life, he has seen Ohio, the mother
of the west, spring from wilderness to
thickly populated State, capable of giving
her old Pioneer twenty-three electoral votes,
backed by an overwhelming large popular
majority and the great west, whose history,
as but the history Of the man, SO closely has
he been identified with it, will swell that
majority by giving him her united electoral
vote.
Such is the glorious standard bearer of
democratic principles such the deep love
elt for him at his own western home.
Though western in his education
trough life, from early manhood to age,
las been in the great West, traversing her
mighty lakes and still mightier forests, in
seeping down the spirit of the red men, and f.
making treaties with them, still Lewis Cass
,as too enlarged an intellect to make Sec
ional President. His heart takes in the
Jnion-he loves the Republic, not a single
'tar which CLEANS on our flag, representing
| single State not half dozen, represent
ng to the minds eye a particular section,
out the whole galaxy, representing the
whole Union-East as well as West North
Is well as South, as the child loves its moth-
to resent her injuries, prompt to
avenge her wrongs, and from his councils he
would spurn, with lcathing and contempt,
he man who dare council him, as President
If this mighty Republic, to de wrong to
me section that another might profit thereby.
he is western man with national feelings,
md when he is inaugurard as President,he