The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-03-21
The New Cabinet.
wM.. H. SEWARD, srcnrrARr OF STATE.

"h.- H. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE.
MIR. Seward was born in Orange
county, in the State of New York, on
the 10th of May, 1901. He was edu-
Gated at Union College, in this State,
and took the degree of Bachelor of
Arts in 1920, and of Master of Arts in
1924. At the age of twenty one he
established himself at Auburn in the
profession of the law, and soon ac-
quired "a lucrative and extending prac-
tice. Early in his public and profess
sional life he travelled TO the Southern
slave States, and is supposed to have
formed at that time the opinions and
principles hostile to slavery to which
he has since given expression. To a
greater degree than is known of any
other American statesman.Mr. Sum-
ner, perhaps, excepted-the object of
his life seems to have been to counter
act the extension of slavery. Upon
other questions Mr.. Stewards policy
may be described as humanitarian. He
is in favor of the education of the peo-
pie, of the amelioration of the laws and
of the development of the mineral re-
sources of the United States. liz these
respects he has ever been among the
foremost. of the American statesmen,
and may justly claim the prais
slowed upon him by his friends, and
scarcely denied by his opponents, of
being "the best and clearest head in
America" In 1880 he had acquired
such influence and character that he
was elected member of the Senate of
the State of New York, then the high
est judicial tribunal of the State, as
well as legislative body. In 1884 at
the close of his term of four years, he
was nominated candidate for the
Governorship of the State of New
York, in opposition to VIM. r. Marcy,
the then Governor, and later the dis
tinguished Secretary of State of the
United States. On this occasion Mr.
Seward was defeated by majority of
nearly 10000. In 1889 his party be-
coming bolder and stronger, he was
triumphantly elected, in opposition to
Mr. Marcy, the majority being greater
than the previous minority. Without
having passed through the lower
stratum of the House of Representa-
tives, he was in l849 elected to the
Senate of the United States for six
years. He gave SO much satisfaction
that he was reelected in 1865.
S. P. CHASE, SECRETARY OF TREASURY.
Salmon Portland Chase, was born at
Cornish, n. H., on the opposite bank of
the Connecticut river from Windsor,
VT, in the year 1908. When nine
years of age his father died, and three
years after this bereavement, in 1920,
young Chase was found at the seminary
in Worthington Ohio, then conducted
by the venerable Bishop Philander
Chase, his uncle. Here he remained
until Bishop Chase accepted the Presi-
dency of the Cincinnati College, enter
ing which our student soon became a
chief among his peers.
After years residence at Cincin-
natl he returned to his maternal home
in New Hampshire, and shortly after
resumed his studies in Dartmouth Col
lege, Hanover, where he graduated in
1926. He shortly after commenced the
study of law in the City of Washing
ton, under the guidance of the cele.
brated William Writ, then Attorney.
General of the United States. He sus.
tanned himself during the years of his
professional studies by imparting in
struction to a select school for boys,
composed in part of the sons lof the
most distinguished men of the nation.
He was admitted to the bar at Wash
ington in 1929, and in the following
year returned to Cincinnati and entered
upon the practice of bis profession, in
which he soon rose to eminence, and In
which he was distinguished for indus
try md patient investigation. He was
subsequently elected member of the
United States Senate, and upon the ex-
piration of his Senatorial term he was
put In nomination for Governor of
Ohio, and elected. He was again put
in nomination for Governor, and was
again elected to that position.
SIMON CAMERON, SECRETARY OF wAR.
Gen. Simon Cameron was born in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Re-
verses and misfortunes in his fathers
family cast him very early in life on the
world to shape and carve out his own
fortune. After having removed TO
Sunbury, in Northumberland county,
his father died, while Simon was yet a
boy. In 1917 he came to Harrisburg
ard bound himself as an apprentice to
the printing busines to James Peacock,
who is still a resident of Harrisbugh,
and one of the most worthy and re-
speeted citizens. During this time he
won the regard and esteem of Mr.. Pea
cock and his fellow workmen by bis
correct department, his industry, intel
lligence and faithfulness. His days
were devoted to labor and nights to
study Having completed his appren-
ticeship be went to Washington City,
and was employed as journeyman
printer. In 1928, though scarcely of
competent age, he had attained such a
position and influence that his party
then in the ascendency of the Congress
sional district-proposed to nominate
him for Congress, an honor which he
promptly declined, as interfering with
/ the enterprise in which he was then
engaged. He was appointed Adjutant-
General of the State in 1925 ,~anz office
which heEfIled creditably and accepta-