New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-08-07
Nh. Calhomn's Apology.

rable inconvenience for Letter from Hon John
c. Calhoun to the Editors Of the National Intelll
gencer, defining his position with regard 10 the
volume Of his Speeches just published by the
Harpers on behalf Of his friends We have
done this from love of fair play, having publish
ed the charge against Mr. c., and an apprchcn-
SION that if we did not publish this letter it would
stand a poor chance of being published at all IN
this quarter. Now our readers will sec precisely
where Mr.. Calhoun stands.
It's substance, as will be seem is, that the Title
Page and Advertisement Of the Speeches were
never seen by Mr.. Calhoun and are all wrong
while the compilation itself anns made by MIR. {.
1t is all his work, except that he was o7er-pcr-
suaded to throw in (for Buncombe) his War
Speech OF ISL. The title should have been a
Selection from the Writings &c. no: Collection
of the Speeches Of Mr.. Calhoun, and then all
would have been right.
With due Difference. We do not think so. We
do not think ii is the manly way for a Statesman
like Mr.. Calhoun to make 4 selection OF such OF
his Speeches as accorded best with his present po-
stion, opinions and purpose, TO place before the
public. We have ere now condemned the friends
Of Mr. Webster for leaving ont his Antl-Nar
Speeches from their collections and we cannot
approve the same thing in SUBSTANCE, when done
by Nir. Calhoun himself. The plea that those
who write to Mr. G. for his Speeches invariably
inquire for his hater Destructive efforts, never
for his former ones, Is unworthy OF hum as rs the
suggestion that wGnt 0t room confined hum to one
I Speech in 1911 and those he h as made since 1888
A great many more copies, we are sure, could be
sold Of a full than of a partial collection.
When Mr. Calhoun pretty fairly intlmates that
he has changed his views since his Speeches OF
lS12-]7 were delivered, and that those he has
included in his Selection embody his " nature and
settled opinions" he touches the core of the mat
ter. But if he had intended only to exhibit dis
present creed, smaller volume he'd been sutfi-
| cient. The Speeches of leading Statesman
should have wider purpose than this
Let us Illustrate Mr.. Clay made jealous
and able Speech against rechartering the first
United States Bank in 1911. This Speech was
not in accordance with the "mtaure and settled
opinions OF Mr.. Clay: on the contrary, expert
encc constrained him 10 change his ground on
that point entirely. We are publishing edition
after edition of Mr.. Clay's Speeches. which do not
contain every thing Mr. CLAW has s.id-lrom
which many Speeches Of local or temporary
character, or which were MAINLY repeti,ions of
what he had elsewhere advanced. arc excluded
,s s,neranors Rut snnnosc W., had r,on the
,.o,,,,,,o tba, ,,,o l,,d ma, rom, oil Ar CLAW
has ever said, omitted this Anti-Bank Speech OF
lslI-what veil of exultation and scorn would
have resounded from the whole Loo O. Foco Press
Nav. thouoh that Speech has NOT been excluded
from ann edition Of Mr. Claws Sn. ecbes the con.
,rarv has been spsoectcd and on edition vebc-
mentlv assa;led therepnon Need wo deduce the
moral (?
Mr.. Calhoun trHcs whc4, he ar. res that he could
and Internal 1mnroven,ent Sn soc hoe The non,
is, Has he or has he moi dore ,,bat h. con,d 10
suppress them He could no. bio, them ont Of
the National lntclIigoncer or Mics Register, but
he could leave them out of his con piiauon--and
he did What farther Suppression was in ms
| power?
AR co1bou, we'll s,rs thar No * NOT ashamed
&c BIC ~, s,a.o,.s--.ba. +,o,, ,.cr. ,,,,r3ed
by the hePnol'can party at the time, &C cry
tue ana 'neir doctrines are Just as hepuoncan
now as they ever were. II he had only put them
N 'ns volume, where they belong the Feaaes
his later olf5rs and whether there wgs as he IN.
inmates, aav thing in the condition of The country
when they were delivered which made Their views
right then, though wrong now, Al ;sny rate,
fhsy would have seen that the pretended Lie OF