The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-03-19
MIR. BUcHANANs CABINET.

mn. 1oSA1ANnN Q S10ANSA'
The following sketches Of the gentlemen
composing the Cabinet, are taken from the
Baltimore San of the 7tl inst:
SECRETARY OF sTATE-GEN. LEWIS CAss, OF
MICHIGAN.
General Cass was born at Exeter, New
Hampshire. His ancestors were amongst
" the frst settlers in that part of the country,
and his father bore n commission in the
revolutionary army, and was present at the
battles Of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Princeton,
Trenton, Monmouth and Germantown
ues was afterwards a Major in Wayne's
army, and died near GAINESVILLE, Ohio, in
1880, His son Lewis Cass, was educated
@atsthe academy Of Exeter, and studied law
Mt Marietta, Ohio, under the late Governor
s'Meigs. He was admitted to the bar in
,Tlso2, and in 1906, more than fifty years
ago, was elected member of the Ohio
Legislature In 1912 he volunteered his
.services in the force Which was called out
to join, the, army under Gen. Hull, and
marched to Dayton, where lie was elected
: Colonel Of the third regiment Of Ohio vol
unteers. .'Hesi@as the first man, with his
= detachment, to invade Canada. lie suhse,
'sauentyn being promoted to a Brigadicr
General, joined Gen. Harrison, and crossing
Lake Erie with. him after Perry's victory,
.was present in the pursuit Of Proctor, and
s,articipated in tue tri"mphs Of the Mora
Z: t:Sian towiis. Tile Northwestern campaign
being; happily Terminated, Gen. Csss was
js1gft in command of Michigan and the up.
per provinces of Canada.- Ills hcad-quar
stcrs-were at.Detroit, and lie thus became
,,s'tile military guardian. of the people over
whom he4was soon after October 9, lsl3,)
= called to.rfesile rs evil Governor. In
1876 after$4he Termination of the war,
General >Cass moved his family to De-
tseit. -
During the ,ti,ne' that he was Governor
: of the, Territory of Michigan, he negotiated
no less than twenty-onc treaties with the
Indians. In the expeditions nccesstated
by them, lie encountered more periIs and
hadsoccasion for the display of more firm.
ness and intrepidlty than amy man ever en-
gagged in this service. In 1881, Gen. Cass
. WAS called to the administration Of the War
Department: by Gen. Jackson. In 1886 or
1886, i'll consequence of i'll health, lie re-
.ifed.from this position, much to the regret
81 Gen. Jackson, who rendered him The
mission. to France, where he added to his
tame in defeating the 9uintuple treaty,
through whicl, England desired to search
the vessels Of all nations tr,versing the
ocean. In 1s45, af his return from France,
sbe was elected to the United States Senate
from Michigan, and in 1913, nominated for
tie Presidency, but Al.sc;.ate'l. lie WAS one
> of tile leading friends of the compromise Of
1850. and subsequently ably supported the
Kansas-Nebrask;l measure. On the 4th
inst, his term expired in the United States
Senate; and he was succeed hy repuLli
cain. Although seventy years Of age, Gen.
Cass is apparently younger than most men
at sixty. and there is no doubt, from his in
tcllectual and bodily vigor. that his nd
= lninistration Of the State Department will
fully sustain his previous high repnta-
ton.
ELL coDB, OF GEORGIA.
The Secretary of tlfe Treasury WAS lto,n
at Cherry Hill, Georgia, in 1915. lie is
tlie son "fsC"l. John A. Cobb, who, when
quite hoy, removed from Greenvillc, North
Carolina, will, Ms s.thcr. His mother
Sarah T. Cobb. was the daughter Of the
/. aate Thomas Roots, Of fredericksburg, Vir-
!, ginia.. In4sle year, 1874, when only nine
teen; Mrs Cobh graduated at Franklin Gil
.Jcge. Georgia, and in the following year lie
assnarried MARY Ann, daughter of the late
Col. Zachariah Lamar, of Milletlgevilp,
!, Georgia, by whom LeIlas had six sous,
Iisee Of whom are dead, the two youngest
s sdseg at Washington city during the fra
J: session :of the 'tl,ir.ieaaC Congress. It may
!. ;nota be, 4ninteRestipg to men.iop 4hat a.s
!. : 7nacie, Howell GoEb. after whom he was
]. ,nsmel, asated district of.Georgia in
5sshs Cong ofstife United States during
the last sBaff ssith Great Britain, arid his
cousin, Thomas Cobb; was not, many years
sssipcei . Unitsd States senatorffo,psliesame
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