The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-29

brought his forces to bear, that of the
| six he will own three of the Generals
| cabinet-Berrien, Branch and Ingham.
He wanted the War Office, and was
| craftily urging Hayne of his own state
| when the General unConsciously brush
| ed his plan aside with Eaton. Now
| the Calhoun thought is to drive Eaton
| from the place. and to mock at Mrs.
Eaton and stain her with ISLANDERS is
| the Palmetto idea of a method. The
more cruel it is, the more likely to
succeed; and the latter condones the
| ignobility. These folk play for White
| House; and the greater the stake the
| less of scruple on the part of the play
ers. Remember too these children of
| evil have just begun; the attacks as
they proceed, will mobilize force. The
| women Will be brought to their aid.
| We gagged the mems mouths with
| duel; but who is to gag the women's,
and how will he go upon the work."
This news about Calhoun was moth
| ing by way of surprise. l knew him
TO be as ambitious as Lucifer; more, L
| was aware of him for no friend of the
General; l had learned that much two
years before.
While it was within my knowledge,
| this enmity, / had not set it forth to
the General; the truth of it would have
done him no good, and gotten in the
| way 1t would have served only to fire
| manageable when angry.
Wherefore throughout the campaign,
while the General and Calhoun were
| running mates, l said no word of the
| latter's secret feeling of envious jeal-
ousy and hate, and the General went
| to the election in the dark, believing
| the Vice President to be among his
staunchest friends Thinking now of
Peg, 1 began to glimpse a day when
| the Calhoun rancors would be worth
the Generals knowledge.
Assuming that Calhoun languishes
to be President" said I, and in
| trigues for that object, what do you
say on the radical sort of his states
rights position-going in for the right
| to nullify a general law, and secede
! at will from the national circle, and
| that? Would you call Calhoun either
polite or right to occupy those posi-
| tions?"
And now for the polite and right ."
responded Noah, Calhoun must go
| with the current. A statesman is a
| scientist of circumstances; he must not
| fight wind and tide, but use them. In
South Carolina, notification and seces-
| sion are doctrines of a first respecta-
bility. One meets folk daily who
would sooner be respectable than right;
and Calhoun may well be one of these.
No." observed Noah, in conclusion,
speaking with emphasis, Calhoun
must adopt his state, or his state will
not adopt him. He can not build HIM
self for anything without his state;
that is the keystone, wanting which
his arch of the future comes tumbling
| to the ground"
Then you regard Calhoun as help
less, and that he could not, if he would,
rescue himself on a question of multi
| fication or SECESSION?
mo; he's as helpless as fly in am
Der; he must go with his state or be
lost"
do these proposals of a right to
nullify, and a right to secede, then,
strike so deep with their roots?
had not thought men cared so much
! for tariff"
Sir" replied Noah, while present
states rights discussion circles about
tariff as argument most convenient
behind it. and as the grand motive
turks black slavery. protest against
| tariff links many rich merchants, not
alone in Charleston, but in every great
seaboard city from Baltimore to Bos-
ton, to this doctrine. They would bring
| in goods free. There be many among
these, tugged upon by their pockets,
who can be brought to states rights
for a tariff argument, and who would
| turn off in horror were the true black
slavery reason advanced. There you
have the cunning of Calhoun"
Then you hold slavery to be the
handspring of states right as move
| ment?"
absolutely" and Noah's tones left
no doubt of his conviction. Slavery
overshadows all. 1t is a question to
yet shake the country in its soul"
There was silence between us: we
walked on, 1, for my side, Eliminating
the words of Noah. The more l con-
sdered them, the more they looked the
| truth. Calhoun's enmity l made no
|
set forth, it already had dwelt in my
| knowledge for long.
Getting back to what was present.
| iy being acted I spoke of that cabi-
| net trio whom my companion had
marked as of the clan and same family
of politics with Calhoun.
Branch. Berren and Ingham," re-
peated Noah, ARE blood and bone with
| Calhoun. If they drive out Eaton, there
| may come fourth to strengthen them.
-Four of a cabinet of six! That would
make a mighty beginning in any hunt
ing of the White House."
And what" said /, remembering
Peg, and my rage swelling, what are
we to think of ones who would hunt
a White House across the naked honor
! of a woman?"
What we are to think" said Noah
with a toss of the hand, Twill be the
least of their worry when once they
|
And that will never happen" I re-
| turned. II hold it between my palms
! to defeat their best laid plan-their
most darling chicane, as you shall wit
| ness"
And so hope" said he. ALSO, now
you know as much as /, 1t is left with
you to warn the General and make
bare to him Calhoun. You are the
right one to speak with him on that
| skittish topic"
Inauguration as a ceremony came
and departed. and I looked on the
| going thereof its most superlative fea-
! ture. There were 10000 people to hear
the Generals address; and when he
advanced to the platform reared for
him on the eastern front of the Capt.
toll, the multitude DOTTED hats and stood
a most remarkable spectacle, the like
| of which I'd never gazed on.
But the later horde in the White
| House deiies expression! 1t was SIM
1 pie loot and pillage, wanting blood
shed, and nothing carried away. The
cowhide throng, mud and mire to the
boot-ears. climbed on sofas and stood
on chairs they would catch a glimpse
of their god at whatever damask cost
| When punch would have been brought
| for their entertainment, they rushed