New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
CALHOUN HONORED
Massachusetts, Joins South
Carolina IN Tributes.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau

Washington. March 12-Massachuse''S
joined South Carolina to-day in paying
honors to the memory OF John {. Calhoun'
The occasion was the acceptance oF Coh-
gress of the statue of Calhoun, presented
by South Carolina. which was unVeheo IN
Statuary Hall.
The feature of the exercises in the Sen
ate was the address of Senator Lodge
which will rank among his greatest eHorts'
That it will add to his reputation as
scholar and orator goes without saying
Mr.. Lodge was warmly congratulated
Many Senators regarded his address as the
most notable eulogy which has been pro
nounced In the Senate in recent years MI.
Lodge said, in part:
In the years which preceded the civil
War South Carolina and MASSACHUSETTS,
represented more strongly, more extremely,
perhaps than any other states, the opposite
principles which were then in conflict.
Now, when that period has drifted back
into the quiet waters OF history, II seems
particularly appropriate that Massachu-
sets should share in the recognition which
we give to-day to the memory of the great
Senator from South Carolina. If | may be
pardoned personal word, 1t seems also
fitting that I should have the privilege of
speaking upon this occasion, for my own
family were friends and followers in sue
cessive generations OF Hamilton and Web
ster and Sumner. I was brought up in the
doctrines and beliefs of the great Federal
list. the great Wing and the great Repub-
lican. II seems to me. l repeat, not I'M
fitting that one so brought up should have
the opportunity to speak here when we
who. during the last twenty-five years of
his life, represented with unrivalled ability
those theories Of government to which
Hamilton. Webster and Sumner We're ali
opposed.
Mr. Lodge followed Calhoun's career
fhrN oil >,
from the close of the War of 1872 to 1880
when he passed from the national stage.
After reviewing Calhouns career as a
member OF Congress, as a Cabinet officer
and Vice-President. Mr.. Lodge said
When the crisis Of 1850 came, CLAW
brought forward his last and most famous
compromise, which was supported by Web
ster. The two Wing leaders were filled
with dread as they contemplated the perls
which at that moment menaCed the Union,
and were ready TO go far on the road of
concession. Calhoun. then nearing his
He saw. with that cIearness Of vision which
nothing could dim, that in the existing
state of public thought, In the presence OF
the aspirations for freedom and national
unity when then filled the minds of men
throughout the world of Western civiliza-
ton, no compromise such Clay proposed
plan. which he left as a legacy TO his coun-
try. But his proposition was no compro-
mise. 1t settled the, question. 1t divided
the country under the forms of law and
made the national government only n gov
eminent in name. The solution was COM
plete,, but it was impossible. Clay's com
promise, as every one knows, was adopted.
There was a brief lul, and then the mighty
forces of the age swept It aside and pressed
forward in their inevitable conflict.
The Massachusetts Senator closed his
eulogy as follows:
We do we'll to place here a statue of Cal
houn. l would that he could stand with
none but his peers about him, and not
elbowed and crowded by the temporarily
notorious and the illustriouS obscure. His
statue is here of right He was q really
great man. one Of the great figures of our
history. He was the greatest man South
Carolina has given TO the nation That in
itself is no slight praise. for from the days
of the Laurenses. the Pinckneys. the Rut-
lodges from the time of Moultrie and Sum
ter and Marion, to the present day South
Carolina has always been conspicuous. in
and the character of the men who have
served her and given TO her name its high
distinction In our history.
But Calhoun was much more even than
this He of the most remarkable
men, one of the greatest minds, that Amer
lean public life can show. 1t matters not
that before the last tribunal the verdict
went against him, that the extreme doc
trines to which his memorable logic car
ried him have been banned and barred, the
man remained greatly placed in our his
tory The unyieldipg courage. the splen-
did intellect, the long devotion to the pub
lie service. the pure. unspotted private life
are all there. all here with us now.
untouched and unimpaired for after ages
TO admire.
The unwilling was conducted by South
Carolinians. The cords holding the dra perry
were loosed by Mrs. Bratton and Miss
Csist both daughters of the Palmetto State.
Governor Ansel presided. and Ex-Governor
Mauldin delivered the principal address.
The House listened with attention 10 the
eulogies. No one was more intently heard
than Representative Samuel w. Mccall,
OF Massachusetts. whose appreciation of
the character of the Southern statesman
was greeted with great applause. His estt-
mate of the South Carolinian Is best given
In his own words
In point of intellect and in purity of
character he ranks among the greatest of
our statesmen: and although his name is
more conspicuouslv ideot.eed than any
other name with the theory of Modification.
a theory TO which his great power of logic
gave practical force as a political pr1n-
ciple more than once in critical times he
devoted himself to the work OF prever ting
a rupture between the central and the state
governments and OF maintaining the Union.
He was throughout his whole life devoted
to his native state. His first recollection
was of South Carolina as completely SOY.
ereign republic, except for the articles OF
confederation, which had little or no bind
ing force He was nurtured in the idea
that his state was his country. and in his
political philosophy his primary allegiance
was to her. AMI through her he derived
his more remote and less affectionate rela-
tions with the fedora, government.
Representative Aiken. of South Carolina.
who represents the district from which
Mr. Calhoun was sent to Congress. sketched
Calhoun's career and compared him with
Lincoln.
Addresses were also made by Repre-
sentatives Lamb. of Virginia, and Finley,
lima