The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1850-05-09
John Caldwell Calhoun.


! State, aud n, once rose to emincncc. The
following year he was sent to IT," Legisla.
turc where he served two sessions: and ia
/ lsll was elected 10 Congress His first
speech brought him conspicuously before the
nation AS u parliamentary orator, and from
! that time-a period OF nearly forty years
few public measures have come before Con.
grcss, without feeling the electric shock of
| his gcnius. As chairman of the committee
ON foreign affairs he reported aud carried
through the bill, declaring war against
Great Britain. Ia 1877, at the early age
of thirty five, he became the secretary of
war of Nonroe's administration. He found
that department chaos he lcf, II order He
adjusted unsettled account. of fifty mil.
lions; rcorganzcd the army; revived the
Military Academy At West Point, whose
! pallsadc cliffs once blackebed hy the foot
steps OF the American traitor, have been
forever redeemed by the heroic tread of u
thousand Young patriots. lie began a
complete system Of maralmc and frontier
| Notifications; originated the coast survey,
and laid the foundations of the Indian por.
'rai gallery Mt the Capitol, where ar, has
| generously given her pencil to humanity, 10
transmit to posserity the fast iading traces
OF the red man. In l>25 he was elected
Vice President If the Republic, and re-elcc.
ted the succeeding term. Before il expired
he resigned his Office at the call Of South
Carolina, to become her Senator and that
high place he has since filed, with short
interval, when the cXigcncies of the gov
crnmeni made him secretary Of state. Ev-
cry session of Congress has been siguaixcd
by some speech of Mr.. Calhoun, which was
read throughout the world, and his great
speeches are impcrshabe We need uot
detail his public acts, for ,hcy will be- wo-
ven into the history of the Nation by all its
historians; we need not enumerate his ora
tons, for they lovc become portion of
English literature.
| Such are the well known facts of his
| life. 4 more grateful bu, difficult task,
will always by truthful ANALYSIS of his in.
leleciual and political character. Born
during the revolutionary struggle, be was
taught TO yencrate liberty, and that lesson
became the guide of his life. IN youth, he
! laid himself ON the alter of the Republic,
aud his hle has been a selfmmolatiou He
L,. r,.,o, shr,rL iron, s,c,isc;u, IN. ,,ost
dazzling opportunities OF preicrncnt, 10 lis
| Judgment aud patrio'i-rnS SpurnIng The liv
crv Of all par,i.s n. has ucvor slammed for
their emolnmonts From .bo Grsi his cr.ed
has bceu broad and cleor. embracing wall
Fdehned principles on every subject oi public
interest, and although he has shown the
practical ccnius or adaptino himself to the
age and nptninus through which be- moved
occentin, what vas ntt,iuablc and WAITING
for the rest. vet he Inns never given IN his
objects. nor changed tbc principlos or pur.
poses of his life. Like the Damascus
blade pleau;ny. brndinr. cnttiny tbrouah.
he can hardly be traced in the rapdiiy and
plstoninn of his movements Nigilant of
the integrity of our grca, Commonwealth.
he has always been jealous Of the corrupt
ing influence OF banks, connected with the
state. Hence, his unrclenting Efforts to
divorce the Government from all banking
institutions. He has always been the ad,o-
cate cf the navy, As the protection Of our
commerce among distant nations. But h4
increasing advocacy of the great principles
Of freedom of commerce throughout the
world, will be remembered with morv graf.
iiudc by posterity than all his other achieve
mcnts The day Is coming, and he saw II
dawnug from aiar, when every barrier
which the inhumaniiy of other ages has Ia.
t"rposcd To the friendly intercourse of MA
lions, will give way 10 the progress of
light, and the Inauguration of sentiment
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