An Oration on the Life, Character and Services of John Caldwell Calhoun: Delivered on the 21st Nov., 1850, in Charleston, S. C., at the Request of the City CouncilSteam power-Press of Walker & James, 1850 - 73 sider |
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Side 48 - What was once a constitutional federal republic, is now converted. in reality, into one as absolute as that of the Autocrat of Russia, and as despotic in its tendency as any absolute government that ever existed.
Side 8 - ... Calhoun was one of those people who have had no childhood to return to. This, perhaps, was what Harriet Martineau sensed when she said that he seemed never to have been born. His political lieutenant, James H. Hammond, remarked after his death: "Mr. Calhoun had no youth, to our knowledge. He sprang into the arena like Minerva from the head of Jove, fully grown and clothed in armor: a man every inch himself, and able to contend with any other man.
Side 23 - ... Hammond had most eloquent praise. It was then, said he, that Calhoun surrendered his prospects for the presidency, surrendered them for the Constitution and the cause of justice. As to the senator's speech on the Force Bill, Hammond had a touch of insight approaching inspiration. "And if," said he, "logic, building on undoubted facts can demonstrate any moral proposition, then Mr. Calhoun made as clear as mathematical solution, his theory of our Government."58 Did Hammond think that he had said...
Side 24 - ... declamation, was on this memorable occasion, a dwarf in a giant's grasp. He was prostrated on every ground that he assumed. And if logic, building on undoubted facts, can demonstrate any moral proposition, then Mr. CALHOUN made as clear as mathematical solution his theory of our Government and the right of each State to judge of infractions of the Constitution, and to determine the mode and measure of redress.
Side 24 - CALHOUN'S will remain to posterity, not merely a triumphant vindication of the State of South-Carolina, but a tower-light to shed the brightest, purest and truest rays upon the path of every Confederacy of Free States that shall arise on the earth. It is not probable that State Interposition will ever again be resorted to while this Union continues. More decisive measures will be preferred.
Side 23 - A debate, however, arose in the Senate on the Bill embracing the recommendations of the President — commonly called the Force Bill — which will go down to future times and live an imperishable monument of the patriotism and courage — the wisdom and foresight, the genius and eloquence of Mr. CALHOUN. His speech is not surpassed by any recorded in modern or in ancient times, not even by that of the great Athenian on the Crown. This debate can never be read without its being seen, and felt, that...
Side 57 - ... did he hesitate to say when he thought his abilities too highly praised. The colloquial powers of Mr. Calhoun have been highly lauded. In this there is a mistake. Strictly speaking he had no uncommon endowment of this sort. It is true that he entered readily and easily into any conversation. . . . But he exhibited no sparkling wit, no keen retort, none of that liveliness of fancy which so delightfully season and refine familiar conversation.
Side 24 - States, binding between those only who ratified it in Conventions : if only certain enumerated or defined powers were entrusted to it in its various departments, and all powers- not granted it, explicitly reserved to the States entering into the compact : and if that compact appointed no special tribunal to decide when the Government thus created transcended the powers granted to it and trenched on those reserved by the States, it follows irresistibly that the States themselves must decide such questions...
Side 29 - I would be found under the banner of the system. I have great doubts, if doubts they may be called, as to the soundness and tendency of the whole system, in all its modifications. I have great fears that it will be found hostile to liberty and the advance of civilization—fatally hostile to liberty in our country, where the system exists in its worst and most dangerous form.
Side 24 - ... reserved by the States, it follows irresistibly that the States themselves must decide such questions : for if the Federal Government, by any or all of its departments, assumes, as an exclusive right, this transcendant power, then is that Government sovereign over those by whom it was created — the Conventions of the people of the States ; the limits to its powers, supposed to have been fixed in the most sacred and binding form, were only suggestions addressed to its discretion, and the whole...