American Minute - October 9, 2014 (351 Views)

The Democrat Party's candidate for President in 1848 was Lewis Cass, born OCTOBER 9, 1782.

In 1807, Lewis Cass became the US Marshal for Ohio .

He was a Brigadier-General in the War of 1812, fighting in the Battle of the Thames.

President James Madison appointed Lewis Cass as Governor-General of the Michigan Territory, 1813-1831, where he made Indian treaties, organized townships and built roads.

In 1820, Lewis Cass led an expedition to northern Minnesota in search of the source of the Mississippi River in order to define the border between the U.S. and Canada.

Cass' expedition geologist Henry Schoolcraft was able to correctly identify the Mississippi's source as Lake Itasca in 1832.

President Andrew Jackson appointed Lewis Cass as Secretary of War in 1831, then minister to France in 1836.

He was elected a U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1845-48, 1849-57.

In 1848, Cass was the Democrat Party's Presidential Candidate.

Senator Lewis Cass wrote from Washington, D.C. in 1846:

"God, in His providence, has given us a Book of His revealed will to be with us at the commencement of our career in this life and at its termination;

and to accompany us during all chances and changes of this trying and fitful progress, to control the passions, to enlighten the judgment, to guide the conscience, to teach us what we ought to do here, and what we shall be hereafter."

Lewis Cass delivered a Eulogy for Secretary of State Daniel Webster, December 14, 1852:

"'How are the mighty fallen!' we may yet exclaim, when reft of our great and wisest;

but they fall to rise again from death to life, when such quickening faith in the mercy of God and in the sacrifice of the Redeemer comes to shed upon them its happy influence this side of the grave and beyond it..."

Lewis Cass added regarding Daniel Webster:

"And beyond all this he died in the faith of the Christian - humble, but hopeful - adding another to the long list of eminent men who have searched the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and have found it to be the word and the will of God."

Lewis Cass was Secretary of State for President James Buchanan, 1857-1860.

The State of Michigan placed his statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.

Seventeen States have places named for Lewis Cass, including:

1 building;
1 fort;
1 river;
2 lakes;
3 parks;
4 schools;
9 counties;
10 streets;
10 cities; and
30 townships.

Lewis Cass stated:

"Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion,

and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power."

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