Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-04-26
STATE AND NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL.
~. NJ M.


BAusroN SPA SARATOGA Co. n. Y, APRIL ii.
The students of this Institution from the Southern States,
numbering about fifty having received the intelligence oil
the demise of the Hon. John C. Calhoun resolved TO offer
nulic tribute 10 his memory As present term was
about closing and public debates and the trial and argument
of by the students held every evening" arnct-
ing crowds of people from the surrounding country II was
thought best hold the exercises the Institution nnd 10
invite worthy and talented President Hon. j. w Fow-
Ter TO deliver the uuogy And, although the affair was
sncced by of the Wings and moro OF the free soil
abotionists enough of the Democrats and Others Joined
render the occasion one OF general interest An I'M
nenso OF people assembled who hung upon the
eloouence the he deneaed with thrilling eieci
the peculiar characteristics of the great Carolina statesman
1t impossible for mo TO give You even sketch o. a
brilliant and powerful address LAYING aside all sectional
feeling with beray TINT reelected The highest credit
upon the speaker he threw upon the with magical
skill the ineaments OF character which all admired End
which could fail Ia recognize rs TIM: oi John T. Cal
houn In speaking OF the peculiar style Of his o-aory esPe
cily in ts earlier developments he said 1T ;vas not that
oratory which, amid The wiis 4 new AFT bor-
row aeras and take the rough Of the scenery
around and which moves and affects on ike the tempest
from rude terrific enersybut rather like the everchang
ing seasons il continued of varied and
brilliant adaptations glowing like the verdnre and
shine of summer, and now when the sentiment, the
siou the crisis demanded bursting forth in the startling
cents of winters Storm flowing in a strain of
quiet sarcasm whitening and blasting like the still oss of
Autumn; and now stealing upon like the inspiring beau
ana The nch fragrance of the opening spring He was
a of feeling well philosophy. His speeches,
though pregnant with deep mathematical reasoning
not productions thus characterized usually were cold
formal stately: overpowerng calculations, luminous and
convincing, whose light, like that Of the moon, though
il guide through the weary empire of darkness has in it
no warmth shield you from its chilling damps and dews;
but like the they poured upon you flood OF mingled
light and heat Though always characterized by logic that
pierced and opened the southat walked erect and with
halo OF light around it, into the dark abyrnhs of netaphi
steal thoughts was accompanied by sincerity and pathos
that brought down with 1t The subdued confdn conquered
OF the nearer Nor they mere esions of part
zcal-n series of daeccal practices upon stupendous
problems which, az matter of form for party purposes
had been assigned 10 him the great of the political
black board for demonstrations they the finished
and majestic nemcnts of the MARBLE which chsc of
had converted into m exquisite counterfeit of life but the
beautiful and symmetrical proportions of living moving
form They breathed into the affairs of State the spirit Of
liberal and energetic patriotism They made government it.
SELF no, mere machine, operating with mechanical ex
actness and submty bur mighty combination of living
powers animated with the hopes and fears and working
the solemn des,ines of n great people,"
Such is faint and very imperfect specimen of the noble
tribute which the gifted President of our Institution paid to