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The civil and military qualifications of Gen. Lewis Cass for the Presi dency, and the distinguished services which he rendered his country, are briefly set forth in the following sketch, the greater part of which was written before Gen. Cass sname had been connected with the Presidential question. It may, therefore, be justly regarded as a tribute, which the impartial historian pays to the merits of a gallant soldier and distinguished statesman. Lewis Cass was born in Exeter, New-H ampshire. His ancestors were among the first settlers of that part of the country, and his father bore a commission in the revolutionary army, which he joined the day after the battle of Lexington, and in which he continued until the close of the war; having participated in the memorable battles of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth, and Germantown. He was afterward a major in Wayne sarmy. In 1799, he removed with his family toM arietta, but eventually settled at Wackalomoka, in the vicinity of Zanesville, in Ohio, where, after a life of honorable usefulness, he died in A ugust. 1830. His son, Lewis Cass, was educated at the academy in Exeter, and studied law atM arietta, under the late Governor Meigs. He was admitted to the bar in 1802, and pursued the practice of his profession successfully during several years. In 1806, he was elected a member of theO hio Legislature. When the enterprise of Colonel Burr began to agitate the country, he was appointed on the committee to which the subject was referred, and drafted the law which enabled the local authorities to arrest the men and boats on their passage down theO hio. This law, interposing the arm of theS tate, baffled a project which was generally believed to have been of a revolutionary character, and intended to divide theW estern from theE astern States. The same pen drafted the address toM r. Jefferson, which
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