In 1782. Lewis Cass was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was the Democratic nominee for President in 1848 and served as Secretary of State just prior to the Civil War. He wrote 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 judgement, to guide the conscience, to teach us what we ought to do here, and what we shall be hereafter.”