The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-09-02

certainly involve the former, so it's
maintenance, with equal certainty
preserves it, Fourteen years later
Calhoun was Vice-President, presid-
ing over the historic debate between
Hayne and Webster. Then he heard
in the chair Webster close his reply
to Hayne with this paraphrase upon
his own tariff speech of 1876
Those words of delusion and folly,
Liberty first and Union afterwards,
but rather Liberty and Union now
and forever, one and inseparable."
The coincident of language becomes
of historic Importance: the arrange
ment of the words, first by the To-
gician and next by the rhetorician,
is suggestive of the mental processes
of the two men. Calhoun never let
fall a superfuous word. He went
straight to his meaning by the plain
est avenue of approach. Hence, he
seldom spoke more than As minutes.
His only GESTURE was with right hand
wide open held near and in front of
his body, cutting the air with quick
nervous stroke, often repeated. An
Attorney-General of Virginia, one of
the four distinguished brothers, b.
cock, told me, many years after CAL
the Carolinian in the Senate. He de-
clared the mental strain in following
the speech was painful; before the
auditor could take in and revolve in
his mind proposition laid down, an
other was heaped on it, and thus the
rapid flow of thought proceeded to
the end.
Within two years after the delivery
of this speech, as Secretary of the
War Department, he reorganized the
army upon military principles so ad-
vanced that no change was made
under the test of the Mexican war
or the constant contact of the troops
with Indians until 1862.
While Secretary Of War, Mr.. CAL
houn established the system Of gov
eminent observation of the weather.
No such function Of government had
ever been exercised before. All the
enlightened nations of Europe heard
of it and adopted it. Commander
Mannery enlarged the scheme, &C
cording to his increased opportuni-
ties, but these two men of the South
may justly claim the imperishable
honor of the introduction to all the
nations of government weather re-
ports.
There are two instincts of the ge-
nus homo peculiar to that genius.
They are the same, except in degree
whether in the jungles of the Congo
or amidst the forests of the fair
skinned Germans. They are the in
stincts of religion and the instinct
of organization in forms of govern
ment. The mightiest demonstration
of nature, I repeat, is the prophet
There have been prophets of God be-
cause of the need. There have been
prophets Of civics because of the
need. Nature reopens and acts.
Zoroaster, Buddha, Confucius,
Plato, Mahomet, the author of Magma
Charta, the author of the Declaration
of Independence, Napoleon, Calhoun,
stand as outward and visible signs
of the human instincts of religion
and organized government. They
are demonstrations of the processes
of nature. They appeared on earth
in their generations, respectively,
and in their locus, respectively, when
and where the economy of nature de-
manded them. They survive in their
works today as indispensable fea-
lures of Gods plan of the world
throughout all time.
Webster for want of argument to
meet Calhoun, pronounced the utter
ance of the Caralinian "metaphys-
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