Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-10
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CALHoUN's LAST DAYs.-In a recent pub
lication Ben Perley Poore gives the follow
ing account of Calhoun's last days, which
will be read with interest at this particular
time when the State is erecting a sarcoph-
agus for the preservation of his remains and
to-day being the anniversary of the states
mans birth:
In the early spring Of $780, Mr.. Calhoun
began to fail. Age and disease had made
sad impress upon his naturally sharp feat
ures, and the wreck of the body contrasted
painfully with the powerful, glimmerings
of intellect which yet flashed from every
thing subject to his touch. Mr.. Webster
also looked worn and feeble, and that step
which five years before, trod with the elastic
firmness of a cOnqueror, now bears him al
most totteringly to his seat in the chamber.
Mr.. Clay, on the contrary, wore well. In
truth, his cheeks bloomed like the sun
mark of peach, and all his acts-physical
and mental-betrayed the invincble Harry
of twenty years past.
AS the espring advanced Mr.. Calhoun grew
worse. He was conscious Of his approach
ing end, and met death with fortitude and
serenity. His physician said that his was an
overworked mind, dwelling too long and
too anxiously on one object. His one
thought was for his country, the strength of
row channel, which deepened itself until
the banks caved in and death ensued. One
of the last directions he gave was to duti-
full son, who had been attending him, to put
away some manuscript which he had writ
ten under his dictation. His remains lay
in state in the old Congress house, opposite
the capitol, where he was boarding when
he died. The corpse was in full citizens
dress and lay on a low couch, covered with
pail, his long gray locks spreading over
the pillow. Before the funeral services
fin similar to that used for the interment of
Mrs. Madison. The pane of glass in the
upper part permitted the face of the deceas-
ed to be seen, and a wreath of flowers lay
across his breast.
THE SLANDERER.-Slandera and detrac-
tion are the weapons of the pusianimous,
of the mean, the dastardly and the craven
hearted. Honorable men Of just and dis
Greet views, when they hear the slang of the
defamer, stand aghast, and look suspicious
ly into the motives, the judgment, and the
information Of the vtuperator. Envy, ha-
tired or malice often stimulate the weak as
we'll as the wicked to acts of defamation or
lous may even do him more injury than the
object Of the malevolence himself. Envy
and maevolence are fruitful in eXpedients
and untiring in their devices for injury and
purposes of malignity, so that the just, and
the honest and truthful cannot be too much
on their guard against the defamer. No
one, not even the most upright, can expect
to escape calumny and detraction. Alas!
such is the way of the world! And it is a
most humiliating reflection, that one who
repeats or details the SANDER of another Of
ten does more injury than the original fab
ricator of the calumny himself Let the
world, then, especially all just men be upon
their guard. The man who would from en-
wv or malice rob another of his reputation,
would, if he had the power, thrust his hand
into his breast and tear away from his heart
the living virtues of which he would rob
him In the estimation of the world.