Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-10-14

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ted reply. But Ca hnun has built up his
argument with too much caution. lie
has hanged out conductors on all sides Of
it.
Were ] called upon TO select from the
Senate the man best qualified to rule the
nat.on--despite Of his being nullltier,
should choose Calhoun. He has just the
right kind Of knowledge for such an office.
From long participation in the affairs Of
government he is intimately acquainted
with all its rami6cations, and is better suit
cd 10 business lie than any great man
know. AS proof of this. 1, some time
ago, in his native place, heard two me-
chanlcs earnestly disputlng whether their
Senator was the best backsmilh or car
penter. They each claimed him as be.
ing first in their trade, when fortunately a
brawny looking farmer came up and en-
ded the dispute by swearing that Johnny
Calhoun he had known from little sha-
yer. che knowed him to be the best far
mer in all the country, and would lick any
man who enied what he SAID to be true
Although the farmers argument was the
most powerful the parties wee, never,
tneless, all true; for such is the versatility
of Calhoun's mind, that he inparis light
TO every subject upon which he exercises
it. In society of any kind, he is more al
home than any m whom | have ever
met. He has all the accomplishments OF
Lord Bolngbroke stamped into The mould
If natu,e' | wish from my scuI tina, he
had better voice.-nis stoop could cast,
y excuse.
BY his side, you observe a tall, porily
looking person-wi'h a playlul eye, and
countenance ripe with eloquencc. He is
Preston, the other Senator from South
Carolna-decidedly the first ora,o, in the
Senate, so far as mere oratory goes. If you
had never been told so, you might have
traced his relationship to Patrick Henry,
in the full blooded veins of his forehead
He is grace all over, and that awkward
hump in the shoulder is all affecration.-
Bu as David Crockett would say, "he is
working agin na,ure"-he cannot do It,
Did YOU ever hear Preston when nnima.
ted?-,hen YOU recollec. his peculiar pow
ere. Just like n cataract--now dashing
and tumbIing precipitousIy along, sweep
ing in is course, earth, tree and rock
aud now, floating like a gentle stream
over spangled sands, glittering under the
gorgeous raintows of the spray above
His language, his gesture, his figure ar,
all poetry. lie is the Apollo Beyidere o
the Sena'e House. | have but one rca
son to urge why he should change hi
wig--its redncss. In oil other respects
it is the most graceful auxiliary to his elo
qnence imaginable. Behold him! In III,
most maddcncd strain he is bringing dowr
The severcst meledictions on the heads o
the present administration. His hands
are raised COW 'sively; with what terrible
effect they are brought to his head--the
whole man shrinks from the grasp--and
his whole body has paused in an attitude
OF the most breathcss silence. Now, all
oil that wa trick from beginning to ending
1T was planned and executed chiefly to
adjust his wig, which, in the warmth oil
his argument, had slipped from its proper
position. Tho great fault of Prest n is
that he speaks too mu h. Great men
sometimes frtIer away their abilities BY
making them too common. Let him take
care.