The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-01

"'He belonged to the second class Of whom I
spoke. He was opposed to secession. He could
have been oribed easily to maintain the Union
''Bribe d? e -
90 Yes, with the offer of the Presidency Of it.
An ambitious, obstinate man, subtle rather than
strong. A wise manager OF common affairs. but
not large enough for comprehensive and complex
matters. He will do very we'll however, to pilot
us out Of the Union. lie Is proud and persistent,
and will not easily be bamboozled'
"How do you regard Stevens 2
IA sagacous man. without any belly
What do you mean by that2'
g He is al brains. But he lacks force Tor ao-
tion. He is a good lecturer, but poor leader.
He has gone of with us just as priestmght be
imagined to have gone@of.swith the ten tribes,
hoping all the time to gat back TO Jerusalem. He
goes with us in hopes, bys and bye, to have in
fuence to get us back into the uniok That Is
like cock-sparrow flying with Storm hoping to
manage it,.
stephens certainly ranks high among the
peopIes
He ought to. He is honest, and sagacious
critic of hstorca. events. He is wise about things
that have already happened. But he has no con-
structve wisdom He has neither tho imaglna-
ton, the courage, nor the-wel--the fanaticlsm
necessary for founding new States
BY this time We had reached 81. PhilIps
Church, and my companion entered modest
battle-ground lying across tho way from it..
hestated at entering. Only few steps, said he.
We came to grave, upon which stood IN altar
FORM large white slap OF marble. by Cuo IdlilI
light OF tine moon L saw cut upon thu middle OF IT.
nothing above and nothing beneath it-a;one,
simple and large-+the name
CALHOUN
'.ForEa moment OF two there was silence At
length my companion spoke:
:'Had HE lived. we should have had a leader
He was our pronhet. He brought US to the verge
of the Promised Land, but was not himself sui.
fered to go over. He died, and no one Is found
worthy to hear his mant:el Being dead, he yet
III, ~ inf1I1lnnQ
which will found new nation. :den VII come
hither, in liter days, upon pilgrlmages, as they
have hitherto to Mount Vermont
:f1 have always deemed his ingenuity acute,
but impracticable.
"iImpracticable? Is the Bible an imprscticable
book because people are not wise enough to prac-
tice its truths? All men OF seed-thoughts are es-
teemed imprscticable in their own generation.
Men want something which they cln use now
not something which will feed them by-and-by.
They plant summer crops, not orchards. The
popular thinkers are millers and bakers, who
grind wheat and bake bread for immediate use.
"sDo you regard the present movement in the
South as the result of Calh9un's Ste teaching cu;
lima who has not been fashioned by Calhoun's in
fuence Every Southern college has taught his
writings. His views of the sovereignty OF the
separate States in the Union are the lever BY
which we shall Dry the Union apart. great
man and wiser than his timesP
We wonder how Gov. PIcKENs likes to have his
code of political morals given to the world by
Parson BEEcHER. In candor we feel bound to say
that MIR. BEEoHERs narrative, in 80 far as any au-
sion is made to she South is free from the inyee-
tive, and blind fanaticsl hatred he was 80 fond Of
indulging in few years ago, and to which SO
many Of the writer's of the North, even to this day.
think it necessary to treat their readers. Still,
because apparently so impartial the ofense is the
greater. His rendering is accepted, even by the
more wary, and fairly Inclined, as absolute truth,
and it will be all but impossible ever to gain
hearing for truly unbiased account of these
transactions a.