The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-11-30
From tie Vicks5urg Sentinel.
John G. Calhoun.

We find in the Richmond Enquirer an inter-
Iesing letter, witten by French gentleman tra-
Vdlng in this country who was in Washington
LAT the time Mr.. Calhoun made his last great
seech in the United States Senate, on the Com.
Pomise Measures, in 1850, to his brother in
hris, in which be gives his Impressions of that
] distinguished statesman. lie says:
Il saw Senator who procured me seat on
he lower floor, near to the place at which sena-
| pr Mason was 10 read Mr. Calhoun's remarks3
/ nd little after one o'clock Mr. Calhoun enter
! d. He wore the appearance Of man gradually
Expiring. His form was the merest skeleton,
but his face, and the peculiar expression Of his
countenance, was as perfectly intellectual as any
human face could be. | shall never forget the
shudder which came over me when I saw him
enter the Senate chamber Richeieu, Voltaire,
Moliere, Arago, Lamartine, SouIt, not one Of
them ever had such a face. Indeed it is utterly
impossible for you to conceive of the impression
which his simple presence created. No man,
destitute Of military renown, ever had so much
Difference and respect paid to him. Indeed can
now know how it has happened that be has been
so long in the service of his country All look
ed with interest at him. When he sat down,
the reading of his speech was proceeded with,
hegining with the simple but unusual address,
Senators" (The usual address is "Mr Presi-
dent as 1t is with us.) Rome CT Greece never
had, in all their annals, subimer spectacle.
Here was a man Of the proloundest requirements.
the purest private and public character, leaving
the bed of death to counsel the American Senate,
upon question of the first magnitude to his
lown country and to the world. The profound
est attention was paid to every word and syla-
bic. The paper was as simple and yet as mas
terly as the arguments of the Emperor Napoleon
in his disquisitions upon the state OF Europe,
which he prepared at St. Helena. The charac-
ter Of Calhoun's mind is that OF tie analyzeT, and
lalso that of the cassifer. He generalizes with
more rapidity than any man now living His
Icomposition Is easy and concise. He embraces
his propositions in the fewest expressions, and
his conclusions seem so apparent that reluta
ton is impossible. This discourse was the most
Eeloquent composition | ever heard read In any
assembly; indeed do not regard anything in
French or English litenture as its superior. 1t
lis eloquence, and with with it an argument that
is itself history and philosophy. ! read it again
land again after 1t was published and, in addition
to copies sent you, have kept several which 1
shall translate when l return to Paris. He was
Iunquestionably the master spirit Of the Senate.
DooroRs.-If we examine the life Of the prac-
ticing physician, we find it gilded and shining
on the surface; but beneath the spangles, how
much pain and hardship The practiciug physi-
clan is one of the martyrs of modern society: he
drinks the cup of bitterness, and empties it TO
tho dregs. lie is under the weight of an i'm
mense responsibility, and his reward is but often
injustice and ingratitude. His trials begin at
( the very gates of his career. He spends his
youthful years in the exhausting investigation Of
Anatomy; he breathes the air of putrefaction,
and is daily exposed to all the perils of conagion
| View him in the practice OF his life He saves
or cures his patient it is the result Of chance, or
else is alleged that it is nature and nature alone
that cures disease, and that the physician is only
useful for form sake. Then, consider the norti-
| fcation he undergoes when he sees mblushiug
| ignorance win the success which is denied to his
learning and talents, and you will acknowledge
that the trials of the physician are not surpassed
in any other business of life. There is another
evil the honorable physician has to contend with
"a hideous and devouIing evil, commenced by
the world, sustained by the world, and seemingly
forevermore destined to be an infection upon hui
manity. This evil is Quackery, which takes adj
vantage of that deplorable instinct which actu-
ally seeks falsehood and prefers it to truth How
often do we see the shameless and ignorant spec
ulator arrest the public attention, and attain for
tune, while neglect, obscurty and poverty are
the portion of the modest practitioner, who has
embraced the profession of medicine with con
scentiousness, and cultivates il with dignity and
lhonor.-Prof CGrnoch0H.