San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-02-10

said It the close OF his narrative:
"The only thing that I really fea
On the sound, which i have navigs
ted for Afty lysszs is,fog. "snirisrie1
His apprehension was jusfied i
ten days time when, IN the thick In
penstrsble darmesA the 'Rhod
Island daShed il life out on thsrock
at the opening Of Narragansstt bay
ho,iS1TAs Death q CalAssA. lo9
AnunpubhAhed lsttsf from NJ
r. II. 7. Hunter, Virginia Senator
l gives some interesting fscts conoern
ing Mr.. Calhouns last moments, an.
ths views at that time 81 the southern
magnatsa. "Mr. Calhouhs death
wrote Mr.. Hunter, 'was eminentl,
simple calm, and unaffected mo dis
play. or prstsnsion, nothing for stag
eject He knew that bis mortal nick
mess was upon him, but be did not ex
psct to die 20 soon. p The evening be
fore his death he bad his mail reat
TO him, commented upon some Of th'
letters and directed his SON to clsa'
up bis table, q was his wont ever
night In the night whom hS found
hs was dying, he directed his son X
pack up biz papers and watch, end x
give his pencil 10 biz son Andrew
When speech left him he still show
ed CONSEQUENCES by igns and beck
oning to his son, squeezed his hand
and expired, without pain and with
out fear. He bad always said to me
previously and TO others through bis
sickness that he had no apprehension
Of death that IL was an event in rela-
zion to which be felt he had no right
to entertain wish. 10 He was . man Of
few quotations, but one which he often
used to me was that there was the
same Providence on the fatal as the
natal hour.'o He was not consnlted q
4to his birth, nor did he believe that
bis wishes ought to weigh or even
exist a. to his death such I suppose
to have been his meaning. He had a
greater faith in his distractions, one
and all, than any other man I sver
saw, and this was bis abstraction (as
I think about death" st,fi
"But." Nj. Hunter went on to say
..you must not whisper. it to any one |:
I believe that he died under the firm
impression that South was bethy-
edfand gone. Indeed, be told me II
was betrayed the Last time I ever
SAW him Do not mention this how
eyer. One Of the last things he syef
said TO Judge Butler was was, Don't
despond, Judge; never despondl' And
if we mean to fight the battle we must
not despond or, IL we do, "a We must
1otilet the people lsse t'until III il
useless Olay's course
and Foote's eternal talk about COM
promise have done more to let down
the tone Of Southern feeling than
everything else put together, Had
Clay not taken the course he did, and
had Foots and. every Southern man
forborne tot:pressJscompromises on
thoee who talked of nothing Of the
l0ft themselves. We might have got
ten; Iathink, o fair compromise: say,
bhe line Of $3.50 through to The Pa
,ifc, with . recognition Of slavery,
south of that hne. Such, at least, is
NY opinion. Buchsnan would have
been willing Bx4rss 70 tbih / believe
md I think I know othsrs IN the
North who would have agreed TO the
sams The North would not have
severed ths Union sooner than sub
nit to, such ,. .propoit;on."'s .n.rS 4
!! Mr. Calhouns death eliaiied glow.
ng eulogies In both houses Of Con
yress, but tK6 NOT impressive was
hat Of Henry Clhyr Ewidsntly stand
ng on thsbrinl Of bis ewn grave, be
vent on TO- ssy, II was his senior,
Mr.; President, ip yeerA-in nothing
'lse According I'd To- the course Of
nature I ought TO havs preceded him. !
y has beea deresd othsrwiss; but II
now that I shall alingsr only 8
hort time and shall soon follow him
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