Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-07-21
General Cass at Home-Interestin Cor
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4 public dinner was a few days ago tender ed at Detroit, to Gen. Lewis Cass, T. S Sccrc- tary of State, by large am highly influential body of his fellow-c.tzeus, upon grounds of personal respect, and in consideration of lis public services. This token of attachment was offered entirely without political distinction or design, and the Detroit Advertiser says that the list of signatures affixed to the correspou- deLco contains the names of many who have acted and will continue to act in open orpos- ton to some of the principles of public guidance avowed by General Cass. In their letter to the General they say:
 Having been witnesses of v0ur devotion to the interests of Michigan long antecedeut to the formation of her State constitution; having been admirers of the wisdom by which you shaped her territorial policy, so as to be iustru- mt Htal in developing her maturer institutions; knowing how ally the Department of War atd the Indian affairs of the country were admins. tered during the time you were Secretary of War and Superintendent of our Indian Atlars; and feeling also a common pride n the dignity accorded to American citizenship through the influence of your character and the yiSor of your conduct during your residence as her niu- loter at foreign cont; and iii the reputation given to our own State by your senatorial ser vices, we, your nelghbOrS and fellow citizens now that you are about to leave Detroit to fulfil the duties of a high public trust, which, in probable ordering of human events, may be the termination of d long and brilliant pubic lie, desire to manifest our personal apprecla- ton of your services to the State and nation, and to express our admiration for what we value most of all, the purity of your private character, by offering to you some token of our social courtesy in which our fellow citizens without reference to party affiliations, may participate.
 Gen. Cass, in reply, declined the compliment, and after stating that hls public life first com menced under an appointment by MT. Jefferson, adds:
 For almost half a century this place has been my home. l saw it when 1t was but a very small exposed village upon the very verge of civilization, and have lived to see It become populous and flourishing city, in the midst of a beautiful and cultivated c0uutrv aboundng in the elements of prosperity, am attached to 1t by all those ties of recollection and association, some of joy and some of sorrow, which bind together the past and the present. But have been required by imperative con- slderatIons to leave this scene of my earlier and my later eXertons, and break off connection so dear to me. l have been caled bv the President of the United States to take charge of one of the executive departments of the government at Washington, as 1 was called there by one of his predecessors twenty-six years ago, upon a similar duty. l recognize among those who have given me the assurance ot their esteem upon the present occasion the names of several of our fellow citizens who then bade me like farewell. Rarely does it tall to the lot oi any man to be able to thank his friends 1 thank mine now for such grateful and renewed testimonial of confidence, under circumstances so neany similar, but so long separated by time and by varied events, both Ill our own country and abroad, which have marked the intervening years of my life.
 During the few days shall remain here it will be out of my power to accept the invitation to public dinner with wbich you have honor- l shall ever bear in greatful recollection this mark of your kindness, trusting by the favor of Providence that when this, my last public duty, shall be determined, may be permitted to return and pass the few days that may re- main to me in the midst of a community where l have lived so long and happily.
 Gen. Cass returned to Washington on Satur. day morning, in fine health. He made the trip from Detroit in thirty ight hours In former years, when railroads were unknown, and voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi was regarded as no ordinary undertaking, trips between Detroit and Washington were taken on horseback, and were rarely accomplished under twenty-five days Gen. c. has often made the trip between the two cities on horse- back, the journey then occupying nearly as many days as 1t now takes hours.