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est members, Immediately solved this mon.

est members, Immediately solved this mon
ster proposition into it's constituent elements,
and his power of generalization and conden-
sation enabled him to express it's character
in two words-lending our credit to the bank
for nothing, and borro7cing 1t back at SIC
per cent interest.
Ann alternative, and not as choice, he
supported the national bank that was char
tered, after. twice defeating the monster
bank of fifty millions founded on paper, for
that monster was twice presented to Con-
gress, and twice repulsed The last time it
came as currency measure-as bank to
create national currency; and as such was
refsrred to select committee on national
currency, of which Mr.. Calhoun was chair
man. He opposed it, and fell into the sup
port of the bank which was chartered.
Strange that in this search for national
bank, the currency Of the constitution SEEM
| ed to enter no ones head. The revival of
the gold currency was never suggested; and
in that oblivion of gold, and still hunting
substitute in paper, the men who put down
the first national bank did their work much
less cfectually than those who put down the
second one
| The speech of each of these Senators, so
far as they constitute the personal part of
the debate, will be given in chapter of it's
own, the .rejoinders, being brief, prompt,
and responsive each to the other, will be put
together in another chapter. The speeches
of each, having been carefully prepared and
elaborated, may be considered as fair speci-
mems of their speaking powers-the style of
each different, but each a first class speaker
in the branch oforatory to which he belonged.
They may be read with profit by those who
wish to form an idea of the style and power
of these eminent orators. Manner, and all
that is comprehended under the head of de-
livery, is a different attribute and there
Mr. Clay bad an advantage, which is lost in
transferring the speech to paper
Some of Mr. Calhoun's characteristics of
manner may be seen in these speeches. He
eschewed the studied exordiums and perora-
tons once so much in vogue, and which the
rhetorician's rules teach how to make A
few simple words to announce the beginning,
and the same to show the ending of his
speech, was about as much as he did in that
way and in that departure from custom he
lfonformed to what was becoming in bust
1etAss=-I' -I'eee+hy his generally were: and al
so to what was suitable to his own intellec-
tual style Of speaking. He also eschewed
the trite, familiar, and supplementary
mode (Which of late has got into vogue,
of referring to Senator as 'smy friend" or
the distinguished, or 'sthe eloquent" or
the honorable" &c. He followed the
written rule Of parliamentary law, which is
also the clear rule of propriety, and referred
to the member by his sitting place in the
Senate, and the State from which he came.
Thus, "the Senator from Kentucky who
sits farthcst from me y which was suf6-
cient designation to those present, while for
the absent, and for posterity the name (Mr.
Clay) would be put in brackets. He also
addressed the body by the simple collective
phrase, ''Senators - and this was not acci-
dent, Or fancy, but system, resulting from
convictions Of propriety, and hewould allow
no reporter to alter it.
Mr.. Calhoun laid great stress upon his
speeches in this debate, as being the vindi-
cation of his public life and declared in one
ofhis replies to Mr. Clay that he rested his
character upon it, and desired it to be read by
those who would do him justice. In justice
to him, and as being vindication of several
measures of his mentioned in this work, not
Iapprovingly, place is here given to it.
The discussion between two eminent men,
growing out of support and opposition to the
leading measures of. Mr.. Van Buren's ad-
ministration, indissolubly connects Itself
with the passage of those measures, and
gives additional emphasis and distinction tc
the era of the crowning policy which separat.
ed bank and state-made the government the
keeper of its own money-repulsed paper
money from the federal treasury-flled the
treasury to bursting with solid gold anl
more for the prosperity of the country thar
any set Of measures from the foundation o.
the government.