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Personal.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston dfereurY SAYS ~ $&S

1 Mr.. Floyd; Secretary of War, is the only
| hiember of the Cabinet absent fror! Wash
ington. The. rest are all on active duty,
and in pretty good health The President
has taken refuge from the miasma of the
White House, at the Military Asylum, three
miles from the city, a pleasant and health
full place. His habits are temperate in all
things, his disposition exceedingly placid
and regular, and it is believed that he full.
| y appreciates the importance to his fame
and to the welfare of his country, of cher
ishing his health and life.
Mr. Cass is greatly amused at the sur
prise expressed in England at the peaceful
character of his diplomacy, and especially
at apeace offering placed before him by
Lord Napier, in the form ola letter address
ed to his ,Lordship by Clarendon, evident
| iy written by that great statesman with the
! purpose fits being shown to Cass As the
hearty and noble old gentleman shakes
himself in laughterover these things, he
does notsay to himself, ''You, Lewis Cass,
| have spoken great volume of speeches, all
giving notice to England that you would
whip her army, sink her navy, stop the
I supplies of cotton to her manufactures, and
declare roast beef unconstitutional, as soon
as you should become commander of the
army and navy of the United States, which
| you, now are, almostl" Not n bit of it
| He knows the American people understood
him to be joking, and thinks tho English
should have had as apt an appreciation Of
| electioneering mirthfulness, willy old gen
tleman that be is. But he is q great and
prudent statesman, and well would it be for
! the nation, could it be secure in the pos
session of his sage counsel and guidance for
but few years more, until the impending
transition shall have been completed
L htyc seen a lottcr addressed by Gen.
Shields toa friend in this city, inwhichhc
] says that seeming discussions in Minnesota
must not give alarm abroad ); that Demo
cratic rule is certain there. 1t is to be ho-
ped so, if only to secure to the nation the
presence of Gen. Shields in the United
! States Senate---a frank, talented and hon
| orablc man, whose directness of purpose al
ways challenges the confidence of hisfriends,
and of every just and candid opponent
| n, Elegant Extract.
80 Every ehcroachment, great or small, is
Important enough to awaken the attention
|; of those who are entrusted with the preser-
yation of a constitutional Government. We.
are not to welt till great public miscbiefs
come till the Government is eyerthrown,
! or, liberty itself put mlextreme ieopardy.-
4 We should not be worthy sons of our faith
ers were we so to regard great questions
affecting the general freedom. Those faith
ers accomplished the revolution on a strict
question of principle. The Parliament of
Great Britain asserted a right to tax the
colonies in all cases Whatsoever, and it was
precisely on this question that they made
tho Revolution turn. The amount of taxa
| ton was trihing but tho claim.itself was in
cousistent With liberty and that was In
their eyes enough. 1t was against the re-
Iscital of an act of Parlhmen5s 5rather than
Eagainst any suffering under it's enactment,
that they lookup arms They went to war
against a preamble. They fought seven
years against declaration They poured
out their treasure and their blood like wa.
contest test h. II; ip5pasition to az sssc:
tion, which those less sagacious and not so
well schooled in the principles of civil lib
erty would have regarded as barren phrase.
i oloSy or more parade of words,ye. y 4 ~.
/ J" They saw in the claim OF the British
eParliament q seminal principal of mi hief,
the germ of unjust power, they detceted it,
dragged it forth from underneath its plau.
siblc DISCUSSES, struck at it, nor did It Ell
ther. elude their steady eye or their well
directed blow till they had extirpated and
destroyed it to the smallest fibre. On this
/ question of principle, while actual suffering
1 was yet afar off, theyraised their flag against
a Power to which, for purposes of foreign
conquest aud subjugation, Rome, in the