The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13

no doubt, had justice not have been out
 ragged in the Britanica's allotment Oi space 50 small to a subject so great as MT. Brewer finds and reports. In other
 words, the market rejects the incident for cause.
 Calhoun gives an account of Mrs. Eaton's part in his career. MT. Brewer telligcnt public prefer to believe in the woman's story (after Benton and Brew CTS deniaD tsey must do so, in the face of records which in no wise sustains them," etc.
 Calhoun wrote to Secretary of War
 When I returned Cfrom the CapitoI mentioned they (the Secretary of War and Mrs. Eaton) had been there and said she would not have known who Mrs Eaton was, had she not been with Mir. Eaton. as the servant had not an- nounced their names. She, of course, treated them with civility. She could not with propriety do otherwise. The rela- of Washington became the subject Of some general remarks. The next morn ing she informed me that she had made up her mind not to return the visit. She said she considered herself in the light of a stranger in the place. l replied that I approved her decision, though l foresaw the difficulties In which 1t would prob ably involve me; but that I viewed the QuGSttOH luV0lVeQ d8 pdEdhiouht tO dL political considerations and was prepared to meet the consequence as to myself, Dc they what they might (Works of Cal houn. Vol. vi. p. 4S6) MT. Brewer will allow my Intelligent public to include Calhoun. All other complaints of Presi- dent Jackson against Calhoun were twelve years old and the two men had been in all that time earnest personal and political friends in spite of the eff forts of certain candidates for the Presi- doncv fn them
 Secretary of State Martin vau Buren. from New York, was widower without children, a gentleman who had pronteo by the counsels of Lord Chesterfield to took offense. He called on Mrs. Eaton. Every Secretary of State in the history of the country had succeeded to the Presidency. MT. Vaughan. the British Minister. gave a ball ana @ the Minis'eo stnn, CT supper. placing her beside the Presi- denl. When Mrs. Huggens, wife of the Minister of Holland. entered the room she was assigned seat next Mrs. Eaton: She indignantly turned on ner neet set aha difa ficulty persuaded himself not to notify the Dutch government that its MlnistSr was non persona grata. The wives or the foreign Ministers would not call on Mrs; Eaton, the wives of Berrien, Branch ana Ingham of the Cabinet would not call on the wife of the Secretary of War and the husband of each got out the Cabinet at the same time. Mrs Donei. son of the White House would not cal! on Mrs. Eaton and the President advised his niece to go back to Tennessee. which counsel she accepted. CPartons Jacksoh' Vol. iii. D. 2S9)
 Calhoun was a less cultured man than the greatest of all statesmen of the Eng. fish language, Burke. but he was not less A statesman than Burke.
 Calhoun taught that two features or system must be preserved in this country to avoid degeneracy to militarism, to wit. the sovereign state anu inc agent of sovereign States. the feo- eral government. ,,
 At this time Calhoun's doctrines are Tn nending in Congress, one to abolish the State militia, supported by the Statee, ana for it National Guard, as practically standing army. subject Pri- marily to the national authority, tne other is a bill to give to the army controi of elections in the States. T., ,e-o
 The assessed values of Alabama Tn iooo, in to which date the doctrines or Caihouh were in the ascendant, at least m AiaDS AK noo ma, were in round numbers sroJu0ovvt o,,t including property in slaves. Take out the slave assessment and the result IFS s2SO, ,OOO, 900 in other property, an averate of. approximately, $500 per capita weaitn for the white people. This accouh's A'' inc first forty years of Statehood.
 We have now lived some forty years almost since the fall of the ola regime. The ner capita wealth for the whlIe peo- nle now is $2S0, approximately. Ihe Io- tai assessment being Tn rouno .an.ert nu som ewhat over half of the assevsmmeh' w