Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1857-02-27
I he New premier-Lewis Cass.

Union, and which no doubt is official,
it seems highly probable that Lewis Cass
of Michigan has been selected as the chief
adviser and official mouth
piece of MIR Buchanan's Administration.
lie is almost the last man whom We should
have supposed would be appointed to so
important and responsible a post and whom
we or the country at large could have dc
sired to see Installed there To us it looks
like a most unpropitious omen for the
incoming Administration.
Mr. CasS is now, and has been for yea $,
one of the most inveteratc old ioges and
doughiaces which have afflicted our poll
tics. He has been in Office from the time
when the memory OF man runneth not
back to the Contrary" during which peri
cd he has amassed much flesh and more
wealth. \ long freqIcnter Of the courts
of monarchs, and a glett feeder at the
public crib. his instincts and sympathies
are foreign to those of the peop'c \
protested Democrat aud lover of liberty
everywhere. he has with alacrity' helped
to extend the "hel Of honda se" in his own
country. A chosen representative and
exponent Of the will Of a sovereign State,
upon whose neck he had Of late fastened
himself like the "Old Man of the Sea,
upon the neck of Sinbad. he has repeated
" refused to heed her cons,itutlonaly and
deliberately expressed voice, until she
has at last, through much tribula,ion,
shaken him forever from the seat to which
he had so tenaciously chung.
Ever since his entrance into the Senate,
dazzed by the tempting prize Of the Pres
i1cncy, he has been but a plastic mass OF
dough, to be wor,ed into any political as
pect or form which the interest or within of
the Slave power might dictate A kind
Providence and the Van Burens have con
spired to spare US the humiliation Of his
elevation to that distinguished post and
when, in his garralous second childhood
Michigan succeeded in shaking him clear
of her skirts, We had hoped that she and
the country were rid Of him f1rever, so far
As office was concerned. But i, appears
that he is still 10 be kasaded by the slave.
holders hence his selection by the ''faeils
Mr.. Buchanan"
If there Is one among the many consid
erations which more than any other stamps
this selection as inauspicious and danger.
Gus to the great material interests Of the
country, it is the bellcose spirit and pug.
nacious disposition of the venerab septu.
agcnarian Senator from Michigan. If hi,
Efforts could have awaited. We should have
been at loggerheads with Europe at leas,
dozen times within the las, quarter Of a
century. England, especially, has beer
his busbcar. the raw head and bloody.
bones with which he has sought to frish,er
Young America into giving him poli,i
cal promotion. Biennially. at least. ha.
he bored the Senate, the new papers ant
the country with lons-winIod, twelve SOLD
column phillippics against Great Britain
IN exposure OF the cnormi,y Of her fel
schemes and desi gns against the pelce aud
quiet Of this country, and he integrity o.
It's territory. And row, when the closes,
ties of commercial interest bind US TO the
mother-country. when the interests Of civ.
iization and universal brotherhood impe.
riously demand that these ties shall be sc,
more firmly knit together, the man of all
others in the Union who would soones,
reod them asunder, is to be placed in the
very position where he may easies, accom-.
plish the desired end
As the putative father of ..Squat,er
Sovereignty" the bastard bantling of a
spurious Democracy. and its tender and
unwearied dry-nurse during the period OF
infantile cholics and teethins. his appoint.
ment is a significant index 10 the domestic
policy of the incoming Administration
Cas- is deadIer. because subj er, toe to
Freedom than even Douglas. By life.
long devotion TO the behests of his party.
when that party was stronger and purer
than it is now, and laboriously acquired
reputation for patriotism, he has obtained
a hold on the regards of the masses of
that party, which the mos, arrant hypoc.
r'sy and the foules, though specious,
treachery to Freedom. have no, fully sui.
feed to destroy. Completely aud thor.
oughly identified by sympathy and long
connection with the pro-slavery party of
the country, in him Freedom has nothing
to hope for, through James Buchanan.
HIS ill-s'arred pet, Squatter Sovereignty,
now that it has accomplished all that it