The daily union., 1854-11-16
From the New Hampshire Patriot
GENERAL CAss AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE


paper south of Washington city Cas is travelling In the
West in company with the traitor Douglas and appease
the public indlgnauon puts usual his twaddng airs
lie yentured recently to speak harhy of the peculiar in
stitution. The Enquirer with that arrogance which is
OF the fundamental characteristics OF the southern
mind administering very sautary medicine TO the
Hero OF the broken sword" which, by the way
necessary several years ago than Then Mr. Cass
in position which enabled him to perpetrate mischief
whereas now he is generally understood be twad
der ana has SO nearly reached the end of his days that
public censure however just cannot result in much good
Besides being Janusfaced politician, public in
the United States has been overrated he He
once ambassador TO the Of France, and the
noticeable feature of bis residence there the adulaon
he continually yielded TO Louis Philippe and the industry
with which he caught up the thousand trivial circun
stances daily occurring amongst that gay and volatile peo
pie Instead OF mpartng the French, through his
department. an idea OF the solidy and OF
the people whose representative he was he capered about
the Tueries with the friyolity of dancing MASTER and
record remains OF his mission than various light read
ings OF his pleasure trip to the Mediterranean in Of
national vessels at the public expense and the uneonder
ed tries regarding French fashions etiquette and other
topics altogether of an unambassadoria character
This said of man who commencing life as the son of
New Hampshire mechanic has risen by his unaided
efforts, TO be of the first OF living statesmen, and
wherever knownin the eastern alike with the western
hemisphere-commanding attention. respect regard, and
esteem; OF who, from the day which him. at the
young of seventeen moneyless and endles crossing
the Aeghanies foot TO seek theatre for honest
effort in the wilderness of Ohio, has spent day
which, in of its relations did look the
ment OF his home his country and his Of who
though entering that oilsome and difficult of all pro-
tessons the profession of law, early majority still
borne to the head of the bar in which he pacsed by uni
versal acclanra distinction never under any ccum-
stances awarded to feeble intellect; Of a man Who
though but twenty-five years of age when elected TO the
legislature Of the State of Ohio unanimously regard
ed as the leader of his party in that body thus giving
promise Of bis admitted twoold eminence in states
manshp and in aw-and how well he combined the two,
how easily and completely me gsped the doctrnes
of the common law, its fundamental principles its statutory
enactments its modes of reasoning al the time that
he comprehended the flexible jurisprudence which
regulates sovereign nations and the intricate
Investigations Of constitutional law is evidenced by the
fact that he the first detect and expose by legal
process the ncpen reasonable operations of Aaron Burr
This said of whose decisive in 1906 Mr. Jefferson
TO be the FIRST bo given the scarlet migrate
who seeking to subvcr the government of the people
who had honored him with their and confidence of
man who shrunk from no danger no TOLL sacrifice in
the time Of his countrys peril and danger from the hour
when at the head of the third regiment Of Ohio volunteers
he marched against the Indians the Wabash to the pc
rod when western valor closed up the bloody
upon frontier This is said of a man who has left
/ the traces of his hand and inscribed his opinions
1 upon all the life history and progress of Michigan
his adopted State from the date of his appointment
as her first governor up to the revision and ador-
uOn OF her new fundamental OF whose large
abilities, profound requirements undoubed patriotism
were all commanding that Andrew jackson promptly
called him to fill what at that time of the most
responsible posts in the the Office Of Secretary
of War; of a who six years later, while American
minister at Paris, performed ACT of service TO his
try which in its results is not surpassed by diplomatic
event upon the records of the government and that oo
when unsnstaned home and without instructions
was time when England, aspiring the unlimited
and acknowledged mastery of the sought to unite
the four great powers of EuropeAusra, Russia, Prussia
and France-wih herself in treaty recognition Of the
right of search, known the qaptpie treaty Gen, Cas
alone and uuaided defeated its recognition by France If
the treaty had been ratified it to be doubted if any effort
could have preserved national independence In
wordor space fails to the crowded catalogue
of his cherished public laborsths is said of who
has devoted the ardor of YOUTH the energy of manhood
the wisdom of rpned years efforts of national glory
and renown to preserving the peace keeping the honor
and vindicatng the rights of his country upholdng
public credit upon the exchange Of patons TO promoting
and domestic industry, developing our
counted material resources interpreting the constitution
and the law and more than all, and above ALL uphold
ing and perpetuang this blessed Union of fathers
Who now is the editor Of the New Hampshire States
man. who thus pours out his wretched basphemies and
vulgar ribaldry upon this great patriot statesman? What
is the record of life and character which entities him thus
arraign in his anderous columns the pures and
cherished of the land Is il crowded with elf-sacricng
efforts in behalf Of his State his county his native
town Does IT furnish single magnanimous ingonu-
Gus relieve the scshness, the hypocrisy the mag
nifty which notoriousy mark the public of him who
penned these words qnoed az the head OF artclc OF
| contumcly and fasehood
There are whose will tolerate the
good in Others which they cannot reach themselves
They seem born and bred assassins of character as
fitted be assassins of life Their only OBJ
iect appears TO be TO drag the great and good down
to their wretched level We are reminded in
this connexion of the dgraceu treatment Amer
ican statesman received from the hands of this same
editor and his friends, who seek poison 10y
their caumnes the last days of the great patriot of Mich
gan The auson recalls their desertion of Daniel
Webster in 1852, when political party fortune seemed
New England Forgetting all the tolls and sacrifices he
had borne for them and their sinking cause they turned
with indecent haste 10 worship sun, and other
songs of applause. With them then as now honor and
faith but the clustering brag of hour Daniel
Webster fell wounded by the daggers Of those who like
the editor Of the Statesman had wned upon and hattered
him in the day of his powerwho had called him god
like and made him the idol Of their praise Even the
grave did him from the harsh and bitter perse
let loose upon his memory long after bis spirit had
returned to the eternal fountain from whence it And
that object of their fostering hate has been gath
cred his fathers they with biaphemous Joy rend
his cssoca,e and his friend Their purpose however will
not he secured The democracy of the Granite State will
rally the defence Of the hero they love the chief they