The home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1857, 1857-04-11
THE NE " CABINET,


previous history Of the members of the
cabinet, we subjoin the folIwing brief
sketches taken from the Baltimore Sun :;
Secretary Of State--General Leacis Cass,
Of Michigan.
General Cass was born at Exeter, New
Hampshire. His ancestors were amongst
the first settlers in that par, Of the coun'
try, and his father bore commission in
the revolutionary army, and was present
at the battles Of Bunker Hill, Saratoga,
Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth German.
town; he was afterwards ma or in Wayne's
army, and died near GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
in 1850. His son, Lewis Cass, was ed,
ucated at the academy of Exeter, studied
law at Marietta Ohio, under the late
Gov. Mcigs. Hewas admitted to the bar
in 1902, anain 1906 IN ore than fifty years
ago, was ele.aed a member Of the Ohio
Legislanrsas nlsl2 he volunteered his
serglpsss asthe force which was called out
toSjolp' lie srmy under Gen. Hull, and
marched 10 Dayton, where he was elected
colonel Of the third regiment Of Ohio vol,
unteers. He was the first man with his
detachment, to invade Canada. He sub.
scquently, being promoted to brigodier
general, Joined Gen. Harrison, and Cross.
ing Lake Erie with him after Perry's vic.
tory, was present in the pursuit Of Proc.
tor, and participated in the trumphs of
the Moravian towi.. The Northwestern
campaign being happily terminated, Gen.
eral Cass was left in command Of Michi.
gan and the upper provinces Of Canada.
His head quarters were in Detroit. and he
thus became military guardian Of PEG.
pie over whom he was soon alter (Oct.
9,ls13,) called to preside as civil Cover.
nor. In 1915, after the termination Of
the war, General Cass moved his family
to Detroit During the time that he was
civil governor Of the Territory Of Mich.
gan he negotiated no less than twenty
one treaties with the Indians. In the
expeditions neccssitated by them he en-.
countered more perils and had occasion
for the display of more Grmness and in.
trepidity than any man ever engaged in
the service. In 1926 or 1926. in conse.
quence Of i'll health, he retired from the
position, much TO the regret OF Gen. Jack.
son, who rendered him the mission 10
France, where he added to his fame in
defeating the quintuPle treaty, through
which England desired to search thieves.
sells of all nations traversing the ocean.
In 1915, after his return from France, he
was elected to the United States Senate
from Michigan, and in ls49 nominated
for the Presidency, but defeated He was
one Of the leading friends of the compro.
mise of 1850, and subsequently ably sup
ported the Kansas Nebraska measure
On the 4th inst, his term expired in the
| y. S. Senate. and he was succeeded by
Republican. Although seventy years of
age, Gen. Cass is apparently younger than
most men at sixty, and there is no doubt
from his intellectual and bodily vigor,
that his administration Of the State De.
partment will fully sustain his previous
high reputation.
Secretary cfthe Teasury.-Hon. Ho,oell
Cobb, of Georgia.
The Secretary of the Treasury was born
at Cherry Hill, Ga, in 1915. He is the
son Of Col. John A. Cobb, who, when
quite boy, removed from Greenvilte,
North Carolina, with his father. HIS
mother. Sarah R. Cobb, was the daugh .er
Of the late Thomas Roots, OF Fredrcks.
burg, Virginia. In the year 1884, when
only nineteen, Mr.. Cobb graduated at
Franklin College, Georgia, and in the
following year he married May Ann,
daughter Of the late Zachariah Lamar, Of
Mlledgeville Georgia, by whom he had
six sons, three OF whom are dead, the two
youngest dying at Washington city during
the first session Of the thirteenth Con.
gress. Itmay not be uninteresting to men.
ton that his uncle, Howell Cobb, after
whom he was named. represented dis.
trict Of Georgia in the Congress of the
United States during the last war with
Great Britain, and his cousin, Thos Cobb,
was not many years since United States
Senator from the same State. In 1886
MIR. Cobb was admitted to tina bar, and at