Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-16

10 lc vas gem rally that of in 5uction HIS was y
m nd that oy nature loved to dwell in the contru'-
! patton OF the past and was not easily or often
| moved into earnest participation Of the present,
And seldom or never, into close contemplation OF
tn future His mind DIV. 1t in a world of its own,
but it was world above or below the actual,
everyday, earnest, living word around US. Varied
as his oratoria powers were the creative, origBa-
v' faculty. held no place in his mind. He would
attack or support what oth'r- originated, with
splen'id elOquence, with rhs toric that viii def
the raVageF Of time; but not monument exists OF
! any measure or GOOD which he originated for the
benefit of the liUi"g world of hi day, or of any
| real tangible brneft for posteritv. Yet he was
great. and of the South recognize his greatness
without thought of rivalry a wish to detract
from his noble fame. We view him as by long odds
the greatest man. and the nOblest and most liberal
mind that ever emsnated from the cold, inhospita-
bic cline, the narrow fanatic, arrogant, and ism
ridden population of New England.
Probably no man who ever figured in American
politics deserved less the stigma of being mere
sectional partiz4n than Johu c. Calhoun and yet
this is the It'll which this critic has given him
this the damnaton which this would be literary au-
tocrat, of New York, would cOoly deal out TO him
By sectional partizan We generally understand one
whose scope OF vision and interest does not extend
beyond the SECTION or party to which he long
whose patriotism is never a love of his country,
but only of his section or party-and who would
his own section party at the expense OF, md
on the rui of every other section party Sac
not John C. Calhoun. The pa'fiotisr
and love of no man, not of Webster,
~ -
Calhoun. 1t is true that Mr. Calhouu never forgot,
as Webster and Clay did, that were not a nation,
but a confederation of nations-when the whole
brain of the North became ism-turned, and tue
great MOI ster-ism abolitionism, born in ignOranc
and nursed in corruption stalked rampant OVrr one
great section of the States, dealing dire deDuncis-
tious, and threatening to invade and crush tn
rights and institutions of the sister section it is ru'
that then, and only then, did Mr.. Calhoun sprin ,
the mighty champion of his own, the assail.d sec
ton and well and calamity did he defend hrr rights
But IS be to be called "ectOual partizan" for thi?
il So then we accept the name AMI glory in il. Il
is futile to attempt compare the minds of ebstrr
and Cslhoun-they were widely dissimiar, in 40
point alike The mind of Mr.. Calhoun, if 10; So
wide and comprehensive in its sweep, less dis
trated and powerful on a single point than that OF
Mr.. Webst-r. Calhoun the greatest master of
the science of asoning BY deduction, of his age,
or perhaps, of any age-aud consequently h was
the most far-seene and ssgacOus statesman. OF
the truth of his principles, and the certainty an
precision of his reasoning, the South stands TODAY
a living monument. In the lifetime of Calhoun a
majority of his own section doubted the truth of
his principles, combalted the soundnes- OF his d.
ductions-and where is that majority now?
principles and the parties of Ja kson and Clay hav"
pcrished-every event which Calhoun fOresaw and
predicted has either taken place i IN id pro-
gress of ffrct-and there is party now 10 all tn
Southern States that for one moment doubts the
integrity and soundness of his principles, tn inv
table certainty of his conclusions. As orator,
Calhoun was inferior to Webster in style, and to
Clay in declamation-but an intellectual debator
he was sup rior to either of them. His style par
took of the character of his mind-cear, rapid,
vigorous, energetic and concise. With u power OF
generalization equl to that of either Webster or
Clay, his was the only mind Of the three hat could
at the sam time descend to the minutest details.
There vas nothing of the politician in the char
acter of Calhoun; by nature he was Southern gen.
tleman aud from first to last he remained one of
the noblest representatives, of Southern hish-oned
chivarv, which never could stoop to the low arti-
fees of a political demagOgup. Of this want
no sur proof than the unhesitatinp bodness an
decision with which he dared to oppose Andrew
Jackson when the oli hero was in the full bas Of
All almost autocratic sway-when his highest
was party law, and when his nod of approval woul
Calhoun been the mer politician be would instantly
have sacrificed his principles at the shrine of pop
ultritv, AMI himself he did at the shin OF
his principles
Il is in his moral life that his character shines
out most glorousy, surrounded h by an
age of corruption. Though amidst the Whirlpool,
aud exposed to all tn temptations of political 1T
no blot or stain ever fell that sacred nVioltbi
honor. All the allurem, nts of popularity and pow
err and h. was ambitious of borh-al the bright
oromis of the favor, and all the dang. re- OF the
hostility of ,cson, assailrd that honor in vain
it only came the purer from the fire. ami ''r' fined
as gold is r. fined" Whittier, taken all in sll, Wet.
srer or Calhoun or Clay tue greatest man, re-
mains still, and probably always will remain, an
op-n. undecided question, entirely diff rent
wer- the three all points; and 1t matters lirr,
for they are al equal now, that place wher~ cruel
ISLANDERS, INTELLECT ai stru giles and bitter d-ap-
pontm nts trouble them no more. II was a mighty
trio that adorned the AMERICAN Senate, A. We fear
it will not soon be adorned again. They are gone
m why attempt to draw iuvidious comparisons OF
men who coul not well be comparei at all ? We
love TO think AMI 10 speak of them as the reat
equal vet unrQu He'd three; and we never be-
traved into doing otherwise, save when sOm pre-
sumptuous ism-t4i ted Mort hrrn dtor, occupying
hgn literary position, "spits his fume and thinks
it venom" &C
October %, 1857.
RELIC OF tbs GENITAL AMERICA.-lt is stated
! that last ~e, boty was pick up on the ATTAIN
| tic beach little to Oh North of Cap Httt'r's,
/ having a belt around it containing gold dust. No