The true Democrat., 1857-01-20
General Cass and Howell Cobb.

! Col Forney, in his able and eloquent ad- dress delivered latel y at Westchester Pa, paid the following merited and beautiful tribute to two distinguished democrats:
 i "lt would be invidious to signalize those who came here in our behalf from other States. and 1t would be almost impossible to specify those who spoke on the right side and who grew up amongst Us, but am sure the demo- cracy ot Chester county will pardon me il I refer to two names conspicuous in the recent conflict, the one because this WAS the theatre upon which he won an enobling triumph over | prejudice, and the other because his fame i. pa- 1 tlonal and his merets universally admitted and venerated Howell Cobb is the type of hi sh 1 toned constitutional nationality. He came here from the south to speak to northern con- munitles, lntiamed by abolition misrepresenta- tons, and, m too many cases, poisoned by pre- conceived Judgmets ts against himself and the regions where he was born. Without abating one Jot of his opinions, without compromising a single principle of the creed of which he is so eminent champion, without yielding an Inch to the arrogance and the recklessness of hls adverSaties, he went forth and with his persuasive eloquence, his unrivalled candor. and that characteristic fairness, while it chal. lensed reply. .never shrunk from controversy. he coniounded those who came to denounce. and ne converted those who came to listen- Aud know you vii! allow me 10 add that much of the good result which crowned your exertons here flowed from the captivating ar guments winch he delivered upon your invi- taton Take next that other name that north- ern, that western name, the name of the vene- rabe Lewis Cass. h the midst of our congra. tulatlons let us not forget him who, wben be- yond thes Psalmsts age mounted the hustinss and spoke day after day to listening crowds, travelling hundreds and thousands of miles that his appeals might be heard by his country men and his example followed by them. It is true that or the scene of some of lis proudes, triumphs, 1t Is true that in the State which he has done so much to rescue from barbari.m and upon the theatre where he has long been a distinguished actor, sudden irrupton of fan. aticlsm has temporarily prostrsted him, and an Ill 5rate posterlty answered 10 brilliant life o usefulness and patriotism by a declaration against the consultation and the Union which he has so long defended. Ingrate, let me say not by way of including the crowd of good men and true who gathered around him from the beginning to the end of the fight, but in. grate in the sense which comprehends the mel who are now realizing in their own prosperity the value and efficiency of his philanthropic and heroic efforts.
 Mr. Burke, in one of his finest speeches, re- ferred to British statesman who had touched, during his lifetime, two great extremes of na- tlonal prosperity; and 1 have often been re- minded of the picture while reviewing tho career of the Michigan statesman. Beginning with his own humble adventures, and while 1 f tba, in inf, ,,f I
 opment, he has marched onward from scene to scene, from stage to stage, comprehending with in it's range alike his own rapid and brilliant ad . vance of his country itself But suppose that the angel of this suspicious man, foreseenc the many virtues which made him the most emi- nent, as he is one of the most fortunate leaders of his age, had opened to him in vision, in his early youth, that in the fourth generation the thirteenth President of the United States-be having seen the first eleCted-should take hi, seat in the chair of the chef magistracv of the Union; and suppose, amid the exciting scenes of the erller life of Lewis Cas,, that angel should have drawn up the curtain, and unfolded the rising glory of his country; and whilst he was gazing with admiration on the advancing oran- deur of America, the same genius should bav. pointed out to him spot of earth hardly an. preciated in the mass of the national interests and should tell him" Young nan, there |, he No'thoest-which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; vet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whoie oi that commerce which now attracts the envy oi the world" Had this state of his country been foretold to him, would it not require all the sansuine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm to make him believe It? Fortunate, man he has lived to see It! Fortunate, too, that the greatest act of his life has been to contribute to that victory which has secured to his country uninterrupted peacs and freedom, let us hope, throughout endur;ne ages. What need such man repine at the false judgment of d perverted public opinion |?