The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-19

h., been constantly and closely idsHdSed % the present
hour :.
- sse ID ths very wantonnesg Of peace prosperity, and
vsslth lie blessings Of tree g0ysrnmsuL % much IA
Sed A. 10 Lewis Casa AT home abroad As cabinet CD
m foreign minister governor soldier or senator The heart
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the ohdeA wA0m be bad grow Up the soil Of TIE
great Northwest There his youthful manhood spent
Ihsry be had hsd ceuns with the Indian bez there be
bad purchased for bis government the title those broad
prairls hose fertile plains which now are eeing with
tie voice q millions 0f free and happy Peope That North
west ia mns BE- and ought be- deAE the heart Of thai
tart man G~Rsral Lewis Cas5 Whsn be looks back upon
IL growth Eans the TINE be first entered it. how strong
must be the emotions that thrOng ap0n him Where
Are The strong and powerful tribes whose untutored VIC
lsnoe be checked with bis counsel restrained with his
lava or punished with bis sword Where now are the
sawart warriors with whom be oOnteded in the council
room or battsd with uPOa the sld2 Warriors and tribes
have disappeared huating gr0unds and hAttehelds
sound with the hum Of busy cities dense forests have fallen
beneath the settlers AKA and villages and schoohOUse and
church steeples and mills aud colleges and public iusta
lions aeW cover the land which Cass surveyed under
N Arnsd Escort and through which he marked the first
raLs ever trod by white men. The companions Of bis
early adVenturehis comrades in camp-hs associates in
ghoe-fhe frieads of his vigorous mAnhood-haye al
OF the name OF every
who lad any part the history Of The Northwest
INST 70 down linked with that Of CAss The history Of
Lewis Cas- i The history Of the Northwest the two
iuseDarAhle His political Is about to eOseno
wiz not ssr that his Official only Is about
inmate long may be live to bless the nation with his
oounse and instruct the young and The mature with the
teachings of his ripe trferie1ee-
In the deah-srnggle Of Analicsu, Michigan has been
ra in the hands OF the enemies Of his eouatry. II s
4 the first time When its metropolis was surrendered
"a foreign foe years long since Cass refused TO unite In
the aishonorable capitalization Now then however he
il in the hands Of his oountrys enemies lie and viii
bid them defiance His venerable years his profound wis
dom his unequAsd experience and acknowledged integ
rtv-whicb if in England, would him seat in
Parliament from almost any place in ihs kingdom-wil
avail him nothing the hands Of the INSCRIPTIONS fac
onists Michigan and the Union lose him in the
Goat. Some man Of mushroom fame viii take that
40 long oecapsd by the Nestur Of the American SENATE
:, he il and let ne contrast be illustration Of the
I,tv which would have been national if Fremont had
been elected.
TO the mean, grortuing press and penny-whstls de-
grs who are exutng the probable defeat Of Cass
contempt Is the appropriate response His political
fame bss reached It's zsrith il can never decline II may
s~ eaouded he may be thrust from Office; be may pass
from this life; bat the personal and brilliant
Forv Of General Cass viii pass away while the his
toy Of the republic glands recorded the Of
left free to trace the wonderful progress Of the Union Of
American States.