The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-12

South Carolina For her profit and
honor he labored and struggled, and her
good was always before his eyes. Cal
hOun's political life may be divided
into parts in which he shows himself.
respectively. a nationalist. a nullifier
and one who despaired Of the union.
When he entered congress he enrolled
himself in that enthusiastic and ardent
group Of men known as the young re-
pUblicans, who drove on reluctant
administration into a war with Great
Britain fo~ the nations honor and who
stood for a protective tariff. United
States bank and a strong government.
After JacksOn's election as president
we find Calhoun appearing as the arch
priest Of an anti-natiOnal doctrine that
Of notification. He then claimed a
protective tariff was unconstitutional
and asserted the right Of each state TO
lay, as it were, a preliminary injunc-
ton on the enforcement of any law it
feels to be contrary to the federal
compact. After the Mexican war came
the closing days of the statesman,
whom he despaired of his country. To
him was coming the force Of the saying
that a house divided against itself can
not stand, and he foresaw that the
union could rot endure half slave and
half free. Yet he loved the union, and
the man whose logical political philosO-
ply had taught the south how to secede
wrote his last speech. which his
strength would not permit him to read.
on the theme How Can the Union Be
Preserved?'' His only solution was that
the north must agree Ito do justice
by cOneeding to the south an equal
right in the conquered territory, and
to do her duty by causing the stipula-
tons relative TO fugitive slaves TO be
faithfully fulfilled. to cease the agita-
ton of the slave question and provide
for the insertion of q provision in the
constitution by IN amendment which
win restore in substance the power she
was possessed of protecting herself be
fore the equilibrium between the sec
tons was destroyed by the action Of
this government" He feels that the
case is hopeless, and he states that he
is struggling to save the union, if il
can be DONE and, if it cannot, to save
the section where it has pleased Provi-
dence to cast my lot and which sin
cerely believe has justice and the con-
stitutiOn on its side. Having faithfully
done my duty TO the best Of my ability
I shall have the consolation,
let what will come, that / am free from
all responsibility" and with hose
helpless words on his lips John G. Cal
houn left the political arena and went
to his death-bed. He was striving for
a cause that was already on the way
to be a lost one.
Of incorTupdble integrity, of wonder
full powers of argument. Of sincere de-
VOtiOn to Christianity, of marvellous
singleness of p,.spOse and power of in
fluencing men, Calhoun stands out as
one of the most noteworthy characters
in American history. He was born of
ScOtch-Irish parents IN western South
Carolina in 1852 and died at Washing
ton in 1885, while serving as one Of the
United States senators from his native
state. Curiously enough, his whole
academic training was in Connecticut,
from the straightest sect Of the feder-
alists. He took his bachelors degree
from Yale college in 1904, when the
elder Dwight was president, and at a
time when one Of the professors had
recently been obliged to sever his con-
nection with the institution largely be-
cause he was a republican. The subject
of his commencement Grafton was
The Qualification Necessary to Consti-
tute a Perfect Statesman" and his
purpose for life work led him to the
law. that great avenue to politics in the
United States He studied at the
famous Litchfeld Law school under
Judges Reeve and Gould, and then re-
turned TO his home in Abbevine Dis
trict and began to practice his profess
sion His political abilities We're soon
discovered, and ne was chosen men,
Der Of the state legislature. There he
achieved prominence and was soon
transferred to the national councils
being elected 70 congress in the year
1870 Probably there has never been q
case when an unknown young man
leaped at a bound into national promi-
nence. as did Calhoun. His first ap-
pearance in congress was in November
1911 Struck with his abilities, Clay,
the speaker. placed him second on the
committee or foreign affairs. Foreign
affairs was a complicated s'zein. The
long series Of Outrages on our commerce
from Great Britain and France could
no longer be borne. We must have re-