The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-04-06
The ncath oE liz. Calhoun.

The Warrington papers III annonn.
cling the death OF the Hon. John 6, Cal
houn, pay warm tributes to his memory
The National lnteligracer says:
MIR. Calhoun was born the 18Th Of
March 1882. and was therefore just turn
ed of sixty-eight years OF age. More
than forty ycala Of his lite were spent in
public ceTT:ce, and nearly the whole oil
that long period in the Legislative OF
Executive Departments OF The Graelal
Government. With ample materials be,
fore Us. we yet deny ourselves the salts
faction OF entering into the particulars
OF h1 long and brilliant career, and emil
nent character Nh that gra! 'iul duty will
be periorurd more fifty to-day in the
Senate, BY hands more worthy OF the
task. Without trenchlng on thrt privi-
legr, We nay be permitted to say OF the
decreased, that few OF CIR public men,
since those OIL the revolutionary era, have
filled larger space in the public eve:
few have acted a mere important part on
the stage OF American po;,icE few have
lea larger void in the public councils
and not enc has descended 10 the tomb
with deeper devotion on the part of
Personal friends, or with larger share
Of public admiration; than this illustrisus
Caroinian.
The Republic also accompanies the
announcement of his decease, with the
following appropriate remarks:
The distinguished citizen had been in
prtcarious health for some weeks, but
the impression had become quite genel-
al that he was slowly, but surely, recov-
ering. Indeed, it was announced that
he was preparing a reply to the COM
ments which had been made in and out
ei Congress. upon his late speech upon
the state of the country. Apprehen-
s;ons of fatal and sudden termination
OF his disease were confined to the friends
who gathered around the bed of the sink
ing statesman to cheer his waning hours,
or to catch the last auguries ofan eXpi-
ring oracle. Even these were buoyea
up, by occasional indications of vlgor,
to hope Tor permanent improvement
OF his installing the chickering's
OF the lamp for renovations Of the oil of
life.
Early in the session MIR. Calhoun's
more familiar friends discovered what
they deemed admonltons OF approach
ing death. From time TO tune he would
grow better and then relapse, but during
each period of convalescence he was
weaker than before, showing too plainly
that in the successive conflicts of nature
the King of rerrors had drawn closer to
the la t citadel Of strength. These mourn
tul indications had dissipated all expec-
taton Of his appearance in the Senate in
the possession Of physical strength equal
to the shock of contending mines Crap
pied together and wrestling over matters
zig with the destinirs The human race.
His fast friends no more hoped to see MIN
there as he once appeared 10 them, 'the
war horse with his neck clothed in thun
der" out they clung to the deusion
that he would be spared them yet awhile
I. animate them by his counsel and di-
rect them by his experience. Nol did
they abandon this phantom until Satur-
day last, when towards evening evening
his pulse became uneven and weary, and
bet okenlng a system worn ont and vast
ed by burdens above its strength
Mr.. Calhoun entered public life during
the turbulent times which preceded the