The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-10-24
WHOLE NUMBER 799.

| loc W bHC Oeuatct udy uitof .0dyAWtbk 0IIoE
week, and month after month. ttfklng me
denounce the Lscompton Consti|3|'on and
the scheme Of submission as 711d. and
and not man of them whispered ln1| he'd
even been satisfied with it. CCfies.oi 11@|
er. they could not do it, MY enenhIss .|
until the controversy has passed awsy, = #
John Calhoun is dead. and p0til We sfTite
upon the eve Of Presidenii3f election. and
shep they trump up this misefaB ID and haae
charge. which they never D.Iofc dared lu
fnsinuste, fhat had sanctioned schanI5
4 from which now yentlley shrink with II 81.
Ifor. IA voice =" Jnss like them q IL
will reed over these pfeten5ed IeltsEs
} do not know whethst they are genufn5 6r
forged, you will fad in them the evidence
that this charge is biseiy false. And now
let me call your attention to them. nv
enemies found the charge upon the hypothe.'
sis that Mr.. Calhoun was under my inhu.
snce and did jait what directed, end, be.
cause Mr. Calhoun finally submitted to this
form of submission of the Constitution, they
infer that | must have agreed to it. you
will read all Of these letters, you will find
that every man who speaks on the subject
te tifias that Calhoun was. from the begin.
ming to the end, 10 favor Of submitting the
whule Constitution. to the people. rejoice
tina. this fact has been brought before the
country, for it will relieve Mr. Calhounia
name of much Of the censure that has been
cast upon il, under the supposition that be
was opposed to the submission Of the. whole
constitution. They all bear witness that
! the stood by the proposition 10 submit the
/ whole constitution until he was defeated,
and, when hs failed to carry it, they say be
fcailed caucus at his Office, at which he
coulseied with the friends Of submission a.
to what they should then do. That caucus,
according to their statement, sat three nights
aud during the tirst night Calhoun absolute.
ly refused to yield or be satisfied with anyr&
thing less than Submission Of the whole
constitution. The secoHd night they sly be
dem andsd the same thing; but the khkd
|auigh,, finding hs could not secure ahe
submission Of the entire, constitution, he
agreed 70 partial submission. y u. 8
+ Now il 1t be true, ns my enemies aver,
that lhoun was acting uoder my advice,
thatfact proves that was for submitting the
Constitution, for Calhoun insisted upon that
up to the last hour. (Cheers.) Sothsse.mea
baye not been efficiently guarded Ia get
ting W this testimony, for, while they show
eIS uSSiHu W uoSuil tuSy luFulsW tuCto
! which acquit me entirely. (Cheers.) Read
the testimony Of Mr.. Doniphan, in which
he says he was present at each ons of these
night caucuses; that he never heard my
mama mentioned, or any pretence Of letter
Ehaving been received from me, or Sny ad.
lViee WEate Ihkt iris certain that, it
4 my nang had been connected With ia that
fact would have beeq stated. No such thip9
occurred when he was present. Hei6 flajt
own witness, and they hsve published his
statement to the world. But am, not %.
ing ilto de enco against these charges, got
u? loosely upon the recollection OF men
three years after the events ahvs transpired
and whom they are so much interested in
throwing the responsibility of their own dis.
reputable conduct upon others. appeal to
my record-the record | have before the
world in three years. Fl !ht--and defy any
honest man on earth to say I have wavered
a h'ir's breadth. (Chcers) do not believe
there is MN on earth who doubts my fidel.
ity to principle. | will here state another
fact. During the L3compton struggle, when
the war in Congress was raging furously, I
had one Interview with Gen. Calhoun, and
but one. II took place in the presence OF b.
gentleman whose nams will give without
consulting him. ME Calhoun being dead,
can only refer aaaone witness, and al.
though he is NOD y have not en-.
qnred of him ss etions of the
interview, | viii State TO you
sub itautialIy vi shis point. Mr..
Weir, then UniN "a rict. Attorney
in K 'nsaa, holding kRs;
Gilman, came to my with
G en-. Calhoun, Preside scompton
Convention. received MN9Cllhoun Cor;
teouslH.snnd kindly, as we hid been old
/ r. SEexpfessed his regrets at the dif-
"a grown up between Us on
1surad N upou his honor
rythin5 in his power to
- OF the whole consti.
u " that it was my de-.
sire, III ell his friends, and,
because be u - is fsir and jlst.-
HayiRg failed Fishing it, the ques.
| tim HroSe as Npatwas the next best
tHIag, and that -hS u Adpgreed to the schsd.
Rkulain the form in whfchsit was adopted, be.
Ig it to be so. Ttold him tboaahtit
#ss The wors, thing. svoics.-"TaSt's
so.1I H. slidhe,r regreued Il. and that he
had hoped would desm that better than
nothing. Laughter. told him nevsf--.
! tha, fraudulent submission was mockalRt
andihat could not sanction ii without @
pudi4ting all the acts of my life, and doinz
political act that did not Believe was moral
and jpst. Ehseys.l
appeal tosMr. w cir, OF X ausas, or, rsshI
Il ef, re 'er you to him as to his ,reenlisnliQn
| of thatsinteryiew, if you choose
lflnn,N Ia that csnRersltion wiz
lhouh he pezsT i1fimated that Ire
antho orilp q -. ahzMI approve tnds
4sche MI: ha A6Nsl iNlIIalled that he had re-.
ceised Ial ron ne on that subject, or
apy auth0tisy directly or indirectly, but ad.
skmitted that be knewthst wanted the whole
hcopsii,ution submitted; that he tried to have
| it submitted, and, when he failed, on his own
responsibility. wen, for the other PROPOSE
lion as the best he could get, and hoped
would not BE- dissatisfied with it; thereupon
Gen. Calhoun and myself parted,-I never
saw him afterwards. He is dead, and far be
it from ma to utter one word against his
memory. | think he made great and fear-
iul mistake in his Kansas movements, and
4 SO said in his presence and to his face, and
in the Senate Of the United States ia bis
Lifetime; since hey il dead, peace to bis
ashas,--it is not tony taste to Indulge In
ordinations. The d0oIi,ion paper 10 whiehR
| I find this pretended eoFrespondence. con-
tains an editorial urticie which charges that
j / had offered Mrs. Calhoun two thousand
dollar TO suppress m spondenee with
her husband while he Surveyor Genefs
al Of Kansas. Lalgher.l In this preten-'