Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-03-15
STATUE Of CALHOUN IS
UNVEILED IN CAPITOL

WASHINGTON, March 12-In the two
houses of congress South Carolina and
Massachusetts today Joined hands over
the grave of John c. Calhoun. The oc-
casion was the unwilling of the statue
Of the great South Carolinian which, 90
years after the period of his 10, g-con-
tinued struggle for states rights, was
set up today i'm statuary hall.
The unwilling was conducted wholly
by South Carolinians. The cords hold
ing together the drapery were loosened
by Mrs. Bratton and Miss Gist, both
daughters of the Palmetto state.
Governor Ansel presided and former
Governor Mauldip delivered the princi-
pal Grafton.
FACES WEBSTER'S EFFIGY.
The statue depicts its subject in a
striking attitude. 1t is placed .,etween
the figures of Ethan Allen and Lewis
Webster, Calhoun's great antagonist.
The cereponies of acceptance took
place in the senate and the house fol-
lowing the unwilling exercises. 1t was
in the two houses that the representa-
tives of the two ante-bellum belligerent
states met to bury the Ratchet Sena-
tor Lodge and Representative Mccall
speaking for the New England common
wealth, and Senator Smith and a num-
Der of South Carolina representatives
for that state. An address was made
in the senate also by Senator Chamber
lain, of Oregon.
The Calhoun family was represented by
Patrick and John c. Calhoun, grandsons
of the statesman, and by several great
grandchildren. In point of intellect and
purity OF character. said Representative
Mccall. OF Massachusetts, in accepting
the statue. Calhoun ranks among the
very greatest of our statesmen and, al
though his name is more conspIcuously
identified than any other name with the
theory OF notification, theory to which
his great power OF logic gave force as a
political principle, more than once in crit
ical times he devoted himself to prevent
ing rupture between the central and
state governments and of maintaining the
union. ..-
DEVOTED TO STATE
He was throughout his whole life de-
voted to his native state. He was nur-
tured in the idea that his state was his
country. and I'm his political philosophy
his primary allegiance was to his state,
through which he derived his more remote
and less affectionate relations with the
federal government"
Senator Lodges speech was a eulogy
of Calhoun, the man. He attempted no
further consideration of the question for
which the great South Carolinian stood
than was necessary to represent his per-
sonality and TO that he awarded unstint-
ed praise.
Representative Aiken. who represents
Mr.. Calhoun's old district in South Caro-
lima, said:
THE two most conspicuous fgures-and
those who will survive longest In the
mind of mankind-of that greatest contest
over the conflicting theories of our gov
errment are John c. Calhoun and Abra-
ham Lincoln.
LINCOLN CONTRACTED.
THE achievements of Mr.. Lincoln are
viewed through the glamor of success
and the halo of the martyr. while the
cause for which Mr.. Calhoun labored-
the perpetuation Of the union. as it came
from the hands of the fathers-went
down in defeat.
Notwithstanding defeat and disaster.
he continues to be regarded as the Aris-
totle OF American politics and with the
mind OF a seer and the heart of a hero
he survives in the respect OF his coun-
trymen, wept, honored and sung"
I'm the house. addresses were made bv
Representative Lamb, OF Virginia, and
Representatives Aiken, Finley, Leayer.
Johnson end Ellerbes, of South Caro-.
lima.
Senator Smith said:
He loved the union and il vexed his
soul TO know that the pride and honor
of his state was being so Inundated
that he foreSaw that unless some meas
ure could be adopted by which the on
preston might be relieved Il would lead
TO a disunion. which to hinr was the,
greatest OF all possible calamities."