Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1831-05-05
THE VIa2EENaAN.
LYNCIIBURG. MAY 5. 1891.


Tho Wellington Telegraph contains . flaming bio
graphical Memoir Of John Caldwell Calhoun" fIing
nne columns oftat paper. Ths object Is Inform the
people clio Mr.. Calhoun is. preparatory asking them
for their suffrage. 1.-THE Telegraph will tell us uhat
ho s,itwl render more acceptable service TO the
Community.
Among tho marvrs told of Mr.. Calhoun. in tho" Do
graphical Memoir, .he following, relating to tho stu
dies Of his youth lie applied himself ind.fa Iisa
bly,, that tho coursc of Jowtets pssks, no read Roll
Inns Anc,en, History Roberson's Charles v Robert
sous America, Voslrn'g Charles XII ITO large eduon
fCooko's Voyages. the orst volume of Locke on the
Human Understanding. and some other smaller worhs"
-Ifthis be true, II oay shows that the young read
mora than he dgostsd When tho Telegraph wa's
supporter ofGsn Jachsou 1t ridculed boob -iarn,n"
quite useless ifuot msehiovnus quail Gca,on ~
statesman. Il ,hsn autoI President who had read
men aud things, aud not books But, the Wee Pro
.dnn, such vsodey IN HE youth, thu VI his
IieuJ Duff 10 chsngod-snd book iara.n Is donhiloss
now regarded by him very essential requisite in
President There i. nothing iAo iede, for certifying
town." sad thu
Tho writer oftIs Biography, who must be Mr.. Cal
houn hmtelG or some intimate frond, hv whom he was
prompted, inasmuch he relates lneidonts which 10
give. account ofa dispuatinu between President
Dwight, of Yale COLLEGE aud Mr.. Calhoun, while he
student at that institution, on the proposition
whether the consent of the governed was the ony
Just gr lund ofegtimate government" The youth
much for his preeopor, according to the Bograph
erholdng his audience entranccd, TIL the sound OF
the dinner beip (horrble idea , broke the enohant-
men 10y his depth Of thought power of argument aud
glowing eoguenco. This in 1902 shortly alor tho
Young MAI had commenced s,udylp tho LATIN gram
mar und wOudor that the goui President Dwight,
with such evidence Of prcoocoGs capacity before
--hmsoIf the Goliath of hi day, Debated pub
lie dsputltion, by nero stripping With Ills sling aud
stoneshould ercam (s' tine Biogr apher says he did,
tina, young has talents enough to be President
he Unlod States" Whether, however. Mr.. D@is l
sal go or not, we neither know Nj cslhoun
certaaiy has talents enough bat want to know
thing oil his pIincip!e' " There lies tho rub"
Mr.. Calhoun tsays his Btosrapher) ranked from the
beginning of his practice at the bar amongst tho frs
lawyers of his circuit" William III. Crawford, Ia his
a,c letter Mr.. Z. says thAthis law knowledge does
not now oktend sufficiently far teach him that
affirmative wtncs. better THAI two IN the negative
" When Doctors d,fior," &c.
Tho B!osrapher quotes from tho Richmond Enquirer
cuogy pronounced by the consstont Editor Of thu
prn, speech delivered by MIR. Calhoun III Con.
gress in the of lell IL in reply to John
Randoipht jefshco of Great Britain aud dculbcation
of M. Madison ahd hls country. Mr.. Richie com
pared Mr. Calhoun TO of the old sagos of the old
Congress, with the Cruces Of yonth"s glowing 6gure,
which could not have boon hammered out of Mr. re
heavy srnntou but by than usually e,-
cit,ug cuuse. Mr. Ritehe III wish he had writ
ten ths ssptende before four years copso-as. tho
bottom ofy heart, he rspents that no uttered
that uiary true prediction about Gen Jlcksons
faction proving q" to tho ouutry"--" Oh that
mine enemy would writo book"
ToMr. Calhoun alone, tho Blogrnphor attributes the
establishment of the National Bonk--a fact which viii
prove worry gratifying such of Mr. Calhouns supper
tors rs tho habit Of denogncing tina, Institution
aud ondeavoring to prevent renewal Of lie charter,
on the ground of It's notwithstanding Thai Mr.. Chi
houns ablo speech Ia ofiho bill to cacr the Bank
exercised Some influence in procuring ats rassago 10
moro thun probable but he mast possess undue
portion of croiuty, or be deeply imburd with Cal
honnsn who read the following sentence. without
involuntary aughtsF slightly intcrmnsloi with nasssG
in spite Of the opposing influence OF tho State bank
the constitutional scTuPie9 ctmany members. and tho
resistance Of many of the leaders oftho opposition lie
Mr. Caihoun) succeeded in sfertng ii. 9alsdes " III.
till though il rel nScertainsd that deeidsd ma
iorify opposed tot: e its ,ntrodHction"y SIM
lar evidences or TIC magic powers Of Mr. Calhouns olo-
qgeucc recorded by his faithful Biographer among
hs earlier efforts wien he was preparing himself for
tbeso mighty forensic lsbofs, III uJnusnts debating
CITY! lie exercised the same power thon, his
brother students that he afterwards did the
mat ureJ intclects OF Members d Congress-changiug
opinions and subduing opposition with much oeIeri-
~ aud case, one oil your modern nocromaneeg viii
cheat you Of your senses by optical Illusion The
fobled Oypheu mud the wonders ofha K3te. must give
place hereafter to John Caldwell Calhoun, und tho
&C Of his ololueuCo
Now for fact Of much importance Il is believed
that Mr., Calhoun has elgued hmself with Tie Null
hsrs ofthc South, who give 10 Mr. Madisons '95 Rcso-
lutons meaning which, If be tho true onc, srikea
ct the foundation of tue Unlorbut which that
able Statesman declares lac noyor iDiende to convey
ad which, in truth, his Resolutions do nv, convey
Well, it not srunge that on tins subject Of constu
tional construction, Mr. Calhoun, Who If he be Null
LITER goes far beyond Mr. Madison his esIi-
nation of State Rights should ia 1875 have been so far
beAad him, that Mr.. Madison absolutely psOsd one Of
Mr. Cslhoans bills. the ground that it nyoys sd the
exercise of powers which the constitution had not
forteI the federal government We ash, az ain, is
il not strange Yet, such i. the fact. We quote from
his biog spher AT this session Qsl5) Mr.. Calhoun
introduced sd succeeded IN carrying through, ball to
rot aside tue bonus paid by the u s. Bank for its char
ter ard the dividends upon the stock ia that institution
belonging to the government, as fund for internal i'm
pyopsmeni"-ilat is, applying the money derived from
one unconstitutional TO the consummaon OF another
and that olher constituting main branch of what is
now omphaticnlly called" the Amerioan System,"-to
procure the defeat Of which tho NulLyes threaten civil
war boodsed aud disunion = We repeat, therefore,
what we have Observed that the people do not
want to know uhO, but chat Mr.. Calhoun is-whethor
he is a Nullifyer. or, he III ieIJ main prop of
that systen whchh is the object ofthe Nuifysrs now