Lewis Cass and the Politics of ModerationKent State University Press, 1996 - 416 psl. Drawing upon Lewis Cass's voluminous private papers, correspondence, and published works, Willard Carl Klunder provides the first comprehensive biography of the man who was the Democratic spokesman for the Old Northwest for more than half a century. A champion of spread-eagle expansionism and an ardent nationalist, Cass subscribed to the Jeffersonian political philosophy, embracing the principles of individual liberty; the sovereignty of the people; equality of rights and opportunities for all citizens; and a strictly construed and balanced constitutional government of limited powers. Cass was a significant player in American politics, from the Burr conspiracy during Thomas Jefferson's presidency, through the Trent affair of the Lincoln administration. During his career, he served as a prosecuting attorney, state legislator, federal marshal, army officer, territorial governor, secretary of war, minister to France, United States senator, and secretary of state. More than any other individual, he was responsible for the growth of Michigan from a frontier territory to the threshold of statehood. Aptly named the "father of popular sovereignty", Cass championed this doctrine that provided an expedient solution to the volatile question of slavery expansion for a decade. A vehement opponent of slavery, Cass supported the right of citizens in each state or territory to decide the question for themselves. Klunder presents a balanced and insightful look into the character and career of this significant 19th-century Michigan politician. Lewis Cass emerges as a bright symbol of antebellum nationalism and political moderation. Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation will be of interest to anyoneconcerned with American biography, White-Indian relations and the coming of the Civil War. |
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Minister to France 18361842 I Have Presumed that I Express the Feelings of the American Government and People | 97 |
Candidate for the Presidential Nomination 18421844 The Best Man Undoubtedly for the Democrats | 119 |
United States Senator 18451848 In These Great Questions of National Bearing I Acknowledge No Geographical Claims | 145 |
Democratic Presidential Candidate 1848 A Statesman Renowned for His Patience Wisdom and Energy | 175 |
The Presidential Election of 1848 The Election of Gen Cass Is Certainbut That of Gen Taylor a Leetle More So | 195 |
United States Senator 18491857 Life Is a CompromiseFrom the Cradle to the Grave | 235 |
Secretary of State and Union Advocate 18571866 I Am Sometimes Filled with ApprehensionI May Yet Outlive the Union and Constitution of My Co... | 285 |
EPILOGUE | 313 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 317 |
NOTES | 319 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 359 |
INDEX | 407 |
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350 psl. - That as slavery does not exist by law, and is not likely to be introduced into any of the territory acquired by the United States from the republic of Mexico, it is inexpedient for Congress to provide by law either for its introduction into, or exclusion from, any part of the said territory...
245 psl. - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
208 psl. - ... the like of that would never happen to General Cass. Place the stacks a thousand miles apart, he would stand stock-still midway between them, and eat them both at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer some too, at the same time. By all means, make him President, gentlemen. He will feed you bounteously — if — if there is any left after he shall have helped himself.
81 psl. - The President again repeats that he begs his Cabinet to consider the proposed measure as his own, in the support of which he shall require no one of them to make a sacrifice of opinion or principle.
296 psl. - Congress is neither to legislate slavery into any territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States.
379 psl. - Army. Interspersed with NUMEROUS ANECDOTES OF THE MEXICAN WAR, and Personal Adventures of the Officers. Compiled from Public Documents and Private Correspondence. With...
52 psl. - Our land melts like a cake of ice. Our possessions grow smaller and smaller. The warm wave of the white man rolls in upon us and melts us away. Our women reproach us. Our children want homes. Shall we sell from under them the spot where they spread their blankets? We have not called you here. We smoke with you the pipe of peace.
165 psl. - If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands, and welcome you to hospitable graves.
158 psl. - The cup of forbearance had been exhausted, even before the recent information from the frontier of the Del Norte. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil.
388 psl. - Report of the trial of Brig. General William Hull; commanding the North-Western Army of the United States. By a court martial held at Albany on Monday, 3d January, 1814, and succeeding days.