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... ■£F*< 6- ■ • • i ®l)c Jlcnnjcrrtt. PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY MORNING, TERMS :—$2.50 per annum in advance. Advertisements. One Square, first inaeition $1.50 On© Square, second insertion .... 3.00 Every subsequent insertion 50 Contract Advertismeuts inserted upon the most Reasonable Terms. Marriage Notices and Obiluaties not exceeding f> Imes, inserted free. jQfrajf* All communications intended for publica tion in the Darlington Democrat, must be ad- sJrceed to tl>e Proprietor. REVIEW OF EX-GOV. PERRY’S SKETCH or JolmC. Calhoun. When I read iu the content* of the March number of "Tha Land W-Loye.” John C. Calhoun, by Ex.Governor Parry, of South Carolina. I felt very much as I should have felt had I found iu the place “George Wash ington,” by Lord North, Ex-Premier of Great Britain. I turned to the article, ex- pectinp: to fiud in it nothing laudatory, and much defametovy, of the great Carolinian. I was but a little disappointed. I found iu it some cleverer things said of him at home—hi; hospitality, urbanity, instructive conversation, and still as a planter. This is “Man’s noblest mission to advance, His woes assail, bis weal enhance, His rights enforce, his wrongs redrew- $S-PSO IPIBiFt AKTKrXJJVr. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MORALITY, GENERAL INETLLIGENCE AND INDUSTRIAL IMPROVEMENTS, VOLUME 2. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1870. NO. 14. was very intimate- with him,” \\ ith Mr. Towns I never became acquainted hut his wife I knew in her early childhood, and held a sort of of father-nnd-daughter-like corres- spoudenoo with her for some time during her widowhood. I boarded with W illiam C. Calhoun for about two years, while I wont to school at Abbeville, and aa I bad some thing to do with the adoption of McDuffie by the brothers John, James, and William Cal houn, and ss I was always as closely knit with their foster son as David was to Jona than, their hearts and houses was ever as open to me as to their own children. I am therefore, a great deal better posted upon their public and private history thau Gov. Perry possibly can be. William Calhoun while I lived with him, wes as reticent of his religious opinions as his brother John; all the good and great that Mr. Perry could , „ nd throu „ h life, I believe, he was aa free find in Mr. Calhoun’s character, worth noticing. The question then naturally oc curs : What could have tempted such a man to put birmelf forward as the biographer of John C. Calhoun ? The careful reader will find the answer on overy page of the sketch. He will be forced to my conclusion, that the whole article is the offspring of uudying spleen, collected nearly forty years ago, and now poured out upon the grave of a man, when, so far as Mr. Perry knew, perhaps believed that there was not another man living, fully oompetcut to neutralise ils baoefui effects; and that the complimentary passages in the sketch were only a little cheap, spicery mingled with the poison, to make it from gross vices as John, but there was this difference between them : you might live with John twenty years and never discover from his walk and conversation, that he was not a scrupulously devout man; but you could not live with William six months with out discovering in his manner and conver sation a number of little half-ooncealcd signs that he was not a Christian- -such a# sly flings at this and that frail member of the church, chuckling ot the exposure of their secret faults, retailing funny anecdotes of ignorant preachers,—in short, those signs which ail irreligious men of respectable standing iu the community are constantly showing forth of opposition to the Church and its members. palatable, This is confirmed by the remarks- Tho „ sand , of these are infiJe | g at , learti nnd ble fact, that Gov Pe-ry does not drop ever. I William Salhoun may have been one of them, a hint of the noblest, the sublimest trait of Mr. Calhoun’s character. 1 allude to his high-toned morals, preserved pure and sput- 1-ss for forty years amidst all the temptations and damning sins of that modern Sodom, Washington City. Who ever heard him speak disrespedtfully of the Christian reli gion T Who ever heard him utter a profane iu ; ]aw llC m Vd o i t word? Nay, whoever heard of his takin ■one “deep drink of brand}' and water, all bis life? Who ever saw him at one of I I was one of them myself iu my younger days. But 1 never heard William Calhoun openly avow infidel sentiments iu all my life, and i will venture to say. lhat in all bis life, he never tried to make one proselyte to the infidel school. Now if Wm. Calhoun made the communication just quoted, to bis sou- in tbo confidence of the iiuiily circle, or with iutent that Mr. Towns “ ! should use it at discretion, or with iutent to unmask his brother tothe world through the the gambling hells, or bouses of ilbfame in | SKCncyof hu son-in-law. The first sapposition is the most charitable the rotten capital? Who ever heard him re. | tail an indecent or defamatory anecdote’— Who ever saw him cast a forbidden glauee Rt woman ? Who ever heard of his fobbing a dime of the public money ? Who ever to Mr. Towns, for though it makes him a betrayer of a family secret, it still depends upon the manlier iu which he revealed it to . i Mr. Perry, whether he was a pardonable or heard of his advocating adaiui iu Congress . ei . . tri i a •» ;. - , " , , . , fe ; unpardonable betrayer. If he revealed it m fi>r pay. Mho ever heard nun apply an ] „ , . /> i> v. .a n . . . , tt J i confidence to Gov. Perry, why then he was abusive epithet to any opponent who met , ■ a • .> . .... . . . , f • , , .» only unfortunate in the aekction ot his con- him in debate ? M ho ever heard of his let- I e . ^ , . , ,, , T> fidaut, and is pardonable, and Gov. i erry But if he ing himself down, even for the iustant, from the the dignity which should characterize every senartor of the United States? You have written harsh things upon the tomb of this great man, Mr. Perry. You would have done yourself more credit if, in the place of them, you had inscribed upon it, in pdaia English, Burns’epithet on “Wil lie,” with a change of names under your i own sign-manual : (Lose Mones Calhoun's bone*. Whom .-artiing wretches blmie, With such as he Where’er he be, Mrj 1 be Bared or damne*.'’ There is uaorc poetry tbaa piety in this, but more piety than there is in Mr. Perry, backwards. must answer for his treachery, revealed it to Mr. Perry as the known politi cal enemy of bis wile’s uncle, why then he is unpardonable, and to such a degree that he is not a trustworthy witness against his uu- cle. The second supposition makes M. Towns j marvellously indiscreet, and las father-in- j law marvellously ignorant of his Indiscretion. But Mr. Perry is not to be blamed lor these J family weaknesses. He is to be blamed, i In wever, for concealing them in his own bosom w hile the parties implicated could speak in their defence, and exposing them to the world after Death had sat [his seal upon their lips for a decide of years or more. The last supposition is the most reasonable from the text, but it ig indignantly forbidden prodigies, both well worthy to lead their respective trihes. M r. Perry proceeds : “General Thompson has told me that he was at Mr. Calhoun’s house with an igooiant and rude Baptist Clergyman, to whom Mr. Calhoun was explaining the dcotrinosof nul lification. The clergyman stopped him, and said, “I would much rather have your views upon the subject of the Christian religiod.” Mr. Calhoun evaded the question, and the direct inquiry was made of him if he believ ed in the Christian religion. The question was not answered.” This iynorant, riubt Baptist elargymau” was Johnathan Davis, brother of Isaac N. Dsvi;, a respectable member of the bar, first of Georgia and then of Mississippi, a trustee of the university of this State, and iu other creditable respects a nun of uote. Jonathan and Isaac were full cousins of Heuben Davis, ex-judge of the Supreme Court of Mississip pi, ex-member of the ['nited States Congress and m-ui iubcr of the Confederate Congress so long as it lived. I’rimn fucie, then, Jona than was neither ignorant nor rude ; uor did General Thompson so represent him to be, when in repeating the same anecdote to me, he named him. Jonathan had hardly reach ed the age of manhood when he entered the ministry; and for years he had no superiot of bis age, as a ssrinonixer, in the Baptist Church of Georgia. lie was a very ardent, xculous, laborious; active, free-apoken, self- confident member of the church ; consequent ly, when Thompson told me his anecdote, in his own peculiar laughable way of giviog point to his stories by his manuer of telling them, it was so precisely iu character with the statesman and preacher us I knew them, that 1 relished it 1 am sure, more than any other man he ever told it to. Thus I re ceived it: “I was ouee at Mr. Calhoun’s house iu company with a Baptist preacher from Georgia by the uarne of Davis. Mr. Calhoun entertained his guest at some length with an exposition of nullification. Davis heard him patiently through, and when he concluded, Mr. Calhoun said: ‘Pavis, what do you think of the Christian religion V Mr. Calhoun, after a moment’s pause, replied, 'Jam a Lctiecer in the Christian rclitjion, Mr. Davit.’" Who, but one ever disposed to Otii>k gall among sweetmeat*, would have thought of adducing this anecdote in proof of Mr. Calhoun’s infidelity, even if he hud not responded to Duvis’s question ? Thompson never told it to disparage Calhoun. It was not his wish to do so. Bay, the highest com pliment that ever was paid to Mr. Calhoun fell from the lips of Waddy Thompson when he was at the boiling point of bis opposition to Mr. Calhoun. It was addressed to my ears as we came out of the cupitol at the con- el us ion of a great debate between Mr. Cal houn and Mr Clay, and soon after he chang ed his allegiance from the ono to the other. “Judge,” sail lie, you know my feelings to- bouu was an infidel. I believe that he re- I iug of an Agricultural Society, near Mr. Cs.’ garded the government of the children of Israel iu tha wilderness, the most perfect that ever ca isted on earth. Be that as it may, he culled my attention to it more than ouee as exactly the government ours ought to bo, or was intended to ta. ‘ There,” said he, “caoh tribe had its place on the inarch and in the camp, each managed Us own con cerns la its own way, neithar mterferred, in the slightest degree, with the private affuira of another, nor did their common head in terfere with any of them iu any matters save such as were of equal interest to all, but unmauagoable by them as distinct aud inde- peadout commuiulies.” Mr. Calhoun cer tainly “believed in Moses.” whether he did iu the prophefs” cr not. So much for Mr. Perry’s expose of Mr. Calhoun’s religious opinions; let us hear him on his political opinions. Upon his head Mr. Perry is impotent. What Mr. Calhoun was as a statesman aud politiciau is known and read of all men, and a half n century hcuce will bu admired of all men. All that Ls wanting te plaoe him above William Pitt, or any other premier who has lived before or since a is day, is for a race to rise up in this country who can acknowledge his greatness without disgracing themselves. If Mr. Perry saw himself as 1 ace him, he^ run Id rejoice in the assurance that when tha day comes he will be forgotten, for there is a heavy judgment in rcscive for his masters—the iiumiltous, the Marshalls, the Websterg. the Storys, the Kent*, the Everetts aud th# Cur tises of our time. These are the men who, by falsa teaching, have demolished the moat perfect and blio-sfui goverumaut that G-’d over vouchsafed to man. These are the gen try who set the oreaturo above its create rs turned trustees of a sacred deposit into ty rants, extortioners, spendthrifts and fr&tri- oidos, reduced States to oomilios, madcslavcs frceiueu aud freemen slaves, aud put tb. bright Caucasian under the stupid African, clothed the nogro with all the privileges that Wushiugtou enjoyed, aud denied the white mau the poor privilege of of oastiug a vote Enough, half told, aud not the worst teld-G There is a day of reckoning for the auth <; of those things, and wheu it comas then wtU Johu G. Calhcuu stand forth iu all the ma jesty of Ins mental and moral character :—as the nrau whose teaching* if followed, Would have glorified the republic, and utade it as lasting as the pyramids; who took from those tret constructionists and bold destructiouists even the plea of ignorance for their political sius; who first vanquished them iu argument and then forewarned thain of the ruin that their doctrines would bring upon the coun try with such vividness of detail aud accura cy of forecast, that had his prophesies from residence, iu 1845. Mr. Parry was oratcr of the day; and at the conclusion of his ad dress, Mr. Calhoun “came up aud compli mented the effort.” Mr. Calhoun was then aUtiug to Alabama, says Mr. P. “to look af ter his planting interest iu that State, aud ex- preteed his regret at not being able to hare mo at his house.” This duUeriug and gener ous conduct of Mr. C. brought Mr. P. back te speaking terms with him. The next year (lS4tij Mr. P. “had the pleasure of hearing him address the Senate for the first time, and of dining with him for the first time, and (after the adjournment of Congress) of riding to the Springs with him.” Some years after this Mr. C. became a candidate for Congress against Governor Orr, aud “in his election eering tour he visited Mr. Galbouu twice.” Hitherto all the advances had been made on Mr. Calhoun’s side; but now, for reasons un explained. they wore all on Mr. P.’s side.— There was a manifest iutei reguum of his prejudices during the canvass, for iu these visits he found Mr. C. perfectly enhancing. Orr defeated him, the chronic ailment re turned, and the intimacy between Calhoun aud J ’erry ended forever. Thus it appears that five brief interviews, scattered through the apace of about twenty-four years, was the capital stock ou which he wrote hi* biograph ical sketch of J. C, Oalhcun. Iu 1832, says Mr. P., 1 became very atrongj prejudiced againat Mr. Calnoun, and it was not in ray nature to seek the company of those I did not like. Tbs total abaudon- donment of his early national principles, and aud icalous espousal of what be ouee repudi- etad as tha ‘Virginia abstractions,’ shook my confidence iu his wisdom and steadfastness of purpose in politics. I did not see how a great atatesuiuu could radically change his politioai principles aud be both wise aud sin cere." The strength of Mr. P.’s prejudices no one will dispute. Thirty-seven yours cannot relax them, nor the death of the man who exj^tes thorn, rsmove thr m. But I must real ly "*»< permitted to call iu question his compe tency, at tha age of twenty-eight, to speak isedljf cStMr. AJ.’s early national princi- plfe-” HSteS? course, ugre alludes to Mr. »» *JW^ on tj,c fl oi CJSngl ' " ’ principles they were ten years of hie cong*-.srional life .vt,;.. v. entered congress in l**)!. (Mr. P. then being Sevan years old,) and served tea years in that body before Mr. P. reached his eigh teenth year, when he was yet pursuing his academic studies in t 1 a retired village of Asheville. N. C . At that age 1 went to school to Mr. Calhoun’s brother-in-law, the ing how the question would affect something else. This was too much hia character lo be a wise statesman or a safe counsellor Whilst the advocate of a great system of interna} improvement, he thought of nothing but the social and commercial blessings it bestows upon the country: lie did not stop to con sider, or turu to the right or left to see how such a system would strengthou the powers of the national government an .1 crush those of the States. Wheu he became an advo cate of a tariff for protection, he thought only of building up our national independ ence and encouraging American labor. He did not reflect upon its sectional bearing, cot. W hen he Locnuie the champion of nullifica tion, if not its author, he saw nothing more than a remedy for getting of the onerous ex actions of the tariff system for protection Ji>t» PqHutniciit. The above Dcpfinmcut will be promptly nt. tended to, and all work in ihi* Hue executed oh (he most satisfactory terms. We will furnish at short notice LA IK BLAXKS. IIAX ft BILLS, J’OSTJ'IiS, CIRCULARS. liesIXESS CARDS, WEUDIXC CARDS, HILL IILADS, I'A.vrnr.irs, LABELS, All lob Work will be Ctsu on delivery. m K m Nature, is responsible. But I have extended this article so tar that, in mercy lo my pub lisher and my readers. I must bring it to a close without examining them iu detail. A few remarks upon the ugliest of them, and I baro done. Mr. C. was ever “jumping from one ex treme te another in politic*; that he. *dv>*catc'i a national bank and opposed a national bank; that at oue time generanl Jackson was in his opinion a grcal patriot and an hicorrui'tible man; then he was a great tayrant, and utterly corrupt. At one time he advocated war; at another peace. At one time he become a Whig pa. ty, and because Colonel Preston and General Thompson would not do so, he drove one from the Senate, and took the stump against the other.” Mr. Calhoun did vote for the United States .V--j did not consider whether or not it would Bank, and he has signed his reason for it in make our national Union a rope of sand.” As all these failings are admitted to be the results of an unfortunate mental infirmi ty, to wit: that Mr. Calhoun could not think ol but oue subject at a time, Mr. P. ought to have thrown the veil of charity over thorn, and not to have coupled them \vi*h the wilful sius of .Mr. Calhoun's lucid intcivals. and pub lish them to the world nt par iQnoliite fra- train ; but if he must publish thorn, hcshould not have magnified them by misrepresenta tion. Mr. Calhoun never adcorutrd the groat system of internal improvements. Con gress having the power to “establish postoffi- co8 aud postroada.” Mr. Calhoun believed that this grant of power involved tho right of Congress to open postroads through the States. In tho latter part of his life he ac knowledged the right (I don’t know that he ever a»serted it in Congress) of that body te opening and improving the navigation of the Mississippi river. This great bed of waters, he said, navigable by ships of all burdens aud boats ol all sizes, with its vast commerce should be regarded as an iulaud sea rather than a river. And here we have the bogining and the end of Mr. Calhoun’s advocaep of the “great system of internal improvements.” To bo sure, Mr. Calhoun, who always looked at things with one eye shut, did not see that ho was “strengthening the national government nd crushing the State” by llu-au eonoessions; these words substantially, if not literally: T vote for this measure because a bank will be a great auxiliary to the government in carrying on the war if news of peace should reach us to-morrow I would oppose it.” Mr C. bad a fixed rule for interpreting the con stitution. which, though nut infallible, was certainly the wisest, soundest and safest that ever was adopted by an expounder of that instrument. It was this: Wherever the. <»in- stitation confers a power on Congress which it expressly interdicts to the States, such ns making war. coining money, etc., there it is to he contrued liberally; but where it confers a fiower to be exercised concurrently with the States, until Congress assumes the eoerciseof it, there is to be construed strictly. He was the friend uf Jackson until Jackson become his bitterest enemy. “Never,” said Dixon II. Lewis to me, “did Juliu C. Calhoun appear to medn such moral grandeur as when, with a full knowledge that General -Jackson, clolhsdwith dictatorial power was threatening to have him arrested and tried fur treason. Nothing but the most earnest persuasions, remonstrances, appeals aud arguments of Jackson’s best friends prevented him from so ■ i .teC-’-l qor i r-v_- v* m«u* gaf4* rJ I a111 quite sure that Mr. Perry, with all ' misdoings aud 1833 to 1852 been placed ou canvas, the pic- j Rev. Moses Waddcl, D. 1)., and (as already ture would have beeu a daguerreotype like- I stated) boarded with his brother Ho in- uess of the county from 1800 to 1809. But "ariably attended our annual examinations all this was sin iu the sight of his opponents, | and exhibitions, and through his hnnda iu- ards Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Clay at this j iu expiation of which they exacted the blood j variably went to the victors in composition he eyes of Argus and Lord Ross’s telescope to help him. would not have seen them, for te.ey have not yet become v'sible. Mr. Calhoun never did advocate, a protective tariff. He voted for the first in mercy to those Northern men who invested their capital in manufaettiresduriug ti e war. and were doom, ed to hopless ruin without it, and never voted foranother. Mr. Webster voted against this, and never voted against another. The uiauu- facturics a-kel protection for only a few years when, they could do without it; but, so profi table was their business, that multitudes ruAicd into it, so that, in about six years. \ and Martin Van Bnren was put in his place doing. For three days did Jackson cling A purpose ii, -pi'e uf C , ; p,.>i(i..n. (' liouii knew all this, and yet withb”, J. any i«nr or anger, in or out of the <vA 'to', iic vindn.it •! 1> : - t • • ..-wJ-s boldly but calmly opposed General Jack Ss?? '' ( misdoings aud usurpations ” he was thus opposing General lAuckson Clay nnd Webstar Joined him for very differ ent reasons, namely, Jackson's avowed pur pose to prevent the renewal of the United States Bank charter, and his removal of the public deposits from it. and scattering ibem all over the country among his pet banka,— Calhoun joined the other two in opposition to this last measure, * but he never dropped a word in advocacy of a renewal of the char ter. The temporary union of the three great men brought all their Iriends together in close sympathy. General Jackson retired, m “la Mr. Calhoun's last moments," savs i the Ex-Governor, “he said nothing atemt! h l ^ !aW ° f justice, humanity, charity, religion, and I mentioned the fret te Gov. > ^dance, sympathy, and acli’-interert, for it Orr~ who was with him when he died iu ' ni ’ ,k ~ Cali,<5an 1 •“-'"^« t «red devil, hi* sor.-in-lav.' a base-born imp in hm own likeness, and Mr l<ook *t it reader Perry the fabled gtionl Mr. Wm, Calhoun ha* j i brother who is i the admiration Washington. The governor said Mr. Cal houn had no idea of dying, and had not even given up at that time the hope of be iog President of the United States." The ex-governor should have remembered , , . r , , i two have adopted sou, hardly inferior to his that tho in-governor of the (reconstructetP 1 J c. .■ . : matchless patron in anything. All of them Mate, was an incompetent witness of the i 1 - v> fact to which he here testifies. I am dis-! lma heart united by bonds posed to give to these c^ey governors all : 8 ‘ ro ”^ r *han natures, "»<1 nth a pride of the credit due to them, when they spake cf j lin#a S C lhat V c,,li ' lren mi K ht «“vy, i . ... . , > . i . ■ for what is the heritage of blood, compared •.lungs know:,Die ny man, but wo*n they i . V . . . . “ speak of the unknowable, as known to them 1 think heysh uld ,ffcr au apology tot!.- ' world for their utterances, rather than claim credit for them Mr. Calhoun's last speech . r ir i i r i religious opinions made known lo the world, in Congress was read tor Itim uy a friend, ' . . . . because ha was too feeble to deliver it; and time, but they do not corrupt my judgment; Mr Clay is hut a child iu Calhoun’s hand " Boturuiug to the anecdote. Ninety out of a hundred readurs’of this day will wonder w hat either of us saw iu it te impress it upon our memories for a week. It is duo to myself that I explain bow it came te be so refresh ing to me My imagination with very little stretching, fillcn out the picture. Nullifica tion war at the time making rapid progress in Georgia. Mt. Calhoun had before him a popularyouog preacher of the Baptig' church of that State, the largest churoli numerically in the State, save one. Me. C^Iioilo saw the glory of h is SlaVe j and j ‘ hat ‘’.'“J™?™*" n ^\ lt ««« * great in >f the whole world. Th and freedom of liia people, and the dcstruc- j aud oratory, hut I knew nothing of his poli- tion of her beautiful capital by lire, zkud 1 tics, further than that he was a republican— this brings me hack to Mr. Perry, who rose ' a term to which I attached very vague ideas, a phoenix from he ashes, and borne on North- J Mr Parry w is mure fortunate, or rather un- ern breezes, perched himself proudly upon the dead palmetto Mr. Perrry is kind enough or careless e- nough te disclose to us in his sketch, that he knew aslittle of Mr. Calhoun's private char- fortunate; for though he informs us that he was h grout admirer of Mr. C., when at school, he must, from what he hero tolls us, have bngan to foci the Calhoun-jiaint even at this “early” date, lie ceutinues : “The total acter as auy man of his sUnding in South abandonment by Mr. OiChnua of hi* early a a tional p' iiviplcs” This is simply false, and Oirolina. “'I he first time that he ever bad tbe pleasure of sc-aing Mr. Calhoun” was at a public dinner in 1825 Ho was then a student st law. “The next time he saw him was at Pendleton Court, ,-ndit was the last time ho spoke to him for many I ha disavow flueuce iu wiimiug over his brethren to the State Rights doctrine, from which nullifica tion flowed as u necessary consequence, and lie concluded to arm him invincibly fort he contest then raging in Georgia. But in that day Soul horn preachers generally, and Bap- ! wo S ues " intervene J b tween the casual meet- tb-t and J/ethodist preachers iu particular, H1 ■ rtiencolbriv.v d “he never spoke to eschewed polities scrupulously, and looked ^ C. for many ye:. remarkable only fi r it* brass aud suicidal recoil. The souse of it (if it has any sense in it at all) th it all tho political principles which Mr Calhoun avowed in bis early life. 1 and oppose ! in his later life. years ” The inference is, that between these j Monstrous 1 And bis zealous espousal of what two interviews lie had stood his examination J he had no e repudiated as “the Virginiaab- for admission to the bo got admitted, and j struct inns.” Bribe quotation marks, ho rep- had some practu'e. About three years then ! resents the words “ 1 irginia ribsfraetions" as iff* but be very festal ions. Thus stood the family wheu Calh.iun, with the confession on his lips that he knew that his brother did not wish bis can He furnishes us come pretty near among his last words were, “Oh that I. could lire to deliver one more speech in tbe Sen- r.te.” From these facts I infer that Gov. Orr peered into Mr CalhounV thoughts and as pirations with judicial vision, and delivered bis oracles with a careless tongue. Mr. Perry continues: “The governor told me that Mr. Calhoun was a Unitarian in rr- ligioti. But Major Samuel A. Towns, who was very intimate with Mr. William Cal houn, the broiher of John C. Calhoun, once informed me that in a conversation with bis j brother, who was a great heretic in religion I l.im all' lie inquired what the religious opin-1 ions of John C. Calhoun were. Mr. 5V iiliam J Calhoun replied : “John has the reputation ef being a ur a mau, aud he is too prudent to offend the religious world by the avowal of infidel notions, but I know that he* thinks with me in regard to religion.” This gives a broad hint of how much Mr. Perry knew , of the Calhouns generally. What he knew : world should know them. Finding his son-in- law curious tc know what they were, he flrat informs him that he him self is a great heretic in religion’ * and then to Jonathan, thcret. re, was in a delicate posi tiou. Mr. Calhoun’s subject had no attrac- perhaps was offensive to him : j with the heritage of mind in its noblest inarii-, - i i e i • ; upon them rather in tbe light of temptations '“ lU ■ l ’ 0,n wlucn w o! the devil thin as things to be studied.—- M 1 '* “~ c ''b.s time. In 1822 he was at school in Asheville, A. (1., aud in 1825 lie _ law student. Ti tions for hiu bu:, ho could not tell him so in his own hous, so he must needs hear Mr. Calhoun through as gracefully as he could. add* that hvvin John is just like him. The! Having heard him with true Christian re- son (let ms c.,!l him) is delighted with those j siguatiou through all the evidences of iuilii- rcvelations, aud of courso, a little infidel j fication. Jonathan felt himself in perfect <; coming from Mr C.’s t kindly to himself and v readers, keeps cut of sigh* tho which Mr. C once vepud ato 1 and so zealously espoused. Nov- I confident that Mr 1*. here puts words iu Mr. was a lew stu'ten! J no probability is that , Calhoun's mouth which he never uttered, or in 1822 ho was about seventeen years | that he applies tie m io d e trin .* vrliieh Mr. old. but as bo was writing for newspaper* at j (\ nevei repudiated and afterwards warmly Unkindly to his doctrines ftenvards am perfectly they become the bitch of the fable, that asked the lone of the sow’s bed only during the period of her confindment aud till liar ehil- ddend’s eyes wore opened. The sow consent ed. but never got hick her bed. The manu facturers got tho majority of Congress in their power, and changed froin beggars to dictator*. Mr Calhoun was n>t the author of nulli fication, he borrowed Lis ideas of it from Mr. Jefferson; but, he did zealously espouse it, end but for the politicians ofthe Porry school, he would have successfully practised it. JfcDu tne kept me thoroughly acquainted with every snip ofthe progress of nullification in his State, from its inception. He was He had hardly got quietly seated wheu lo, all of a sudden. Calhoun forsook bis allies and joined tbs Democratic party. This sud den, change of front startled aud provoked many of his warmest friends, me among the rest Happening in Washington soon after, l visited him and asked an explanation of his strange conduct, and ids reply was on tJ,j B wise: “Judge Lniigstrce*, we cannot, link ourselvee to the Whig party. AVc hold no principles in common with them now. The Democratic party profess our principles at least, and will practice them an heretofore, when their local interests do not sway them; and «hall we throw the weight of our power in the scale of the Whigs, and thus, perhaps very-sanguine when he saw his people rush- put government into their l ands ? What iug lo (he standard of nullification in such ; should we gain by that ? It would he ruinous numbers *h: * he flatt. red himself there would j to u*. and tho sooner we break from them be no division on it. But when it reached J th" 1 otter ” Hear hio own words, uttered the maximum of its popularity, and lie -aw that there was still a strong minority in th • State immovably .pposed to 't, bis spirits sunk; bishop,cs languished and he said to me I.i'iigstreet, '.vc shall fail. If our people War - a unit up ,u it wo would succeed: but tin re is a strong min rity against us who arc bi coming ibvpc,• ate, and encouraged ar they are by thi wh do North, this thing will end j in civil war.’’ The result is known. But wa tear when he was in tho. ole*. ■ fellowship with 'base men, and right in their pre-encc • "1 am the partisan of uu class, nor, !<t me add, of any polit.'c.d paety I am iieilhe of tho opiv si in. uor c*i the auii.iuistrat.eu li' f act with the f rii.ji iu .-.ny instance, ii is be- I Cil'ldtC j i particular i c tiMoii be happy prove. I ai-'.’r , Ur. Me Duff right in ascribing the full-ire -t the uu-: himself.) and deeming it more honorable to ! d* r >1 not under obligation, to invite Mr. fl all parties that they should ade known , 10 t'*® consideration of hi* favorite theme.— this period, we w.U cay eighteen. He was, | espoused. The only t doctrine 1 -- tL ,., ... ...xj-u,,, i. s therefore, just twenty-ore when lie first s-.w j l, e ever zealously espoused were those ofthe ; to the Perry party, and is it true that nullifi '1 r. 0., aitd with in:, ny dined with liim.— i fhr fumed rc-ulutions ot 1798— 9, with Madi- j o it: n, ifsuecessful, would “make oui nation,e i lir-m years afterwards, the said Perry being . eon’s masterly vimlicai.on of them; and will I Union a rope of sand ?” Let us see. Bcfl.ie < c d from the principles »u .vhith they cai now twenty*!'>ur pears of age, saw Mr. C a Gov. Perry say. wtii ha #/«« to say, that Mr. Massachusetts, by a thousand agencies’ j into office; because ioste-id of using the i C. ever repudiated th*-**- as Virginia abetrac-! iiad brought her people to oue v ice and than kept secret, be communicates them to | J’rnttagone Mr. C was an infidel iu Jona John’s bitterest political nemy, as the most j than s eyes, ( ride supra,) and a very danger- likely to give them broad and rapid currcn-! ous one to boot- He, therefore, stood read., cy through the world. But lo! the enemy I ^ r - (-.acknowledged the fact, to demonstrate disappoints V.’illi;,in and his sou, and fulfil!-! 10 him that the evidences of Christianity ed John’s wisht* to the letter, so long as he j were to the evidences of nullification as the i lived. i HUr, ' of < J rio '> orto the Pleiades. Rut Mr. C. j Had he buried his secret wi.h the man 1 ^ u ' 1 "hdgO' 1 . himsclt a beiiovr and .luiiathau that it most concerned, he would have lion- i '' as lc ’“ ^ 0, h were disappointed, aud ored himself. But he divulges it many lo.iu j S 01 ,he ';-“ <* ol thr Mr C Ind years after that man had slumbered iu his j y 1 ’’ he saw ; a whole caisson of ummu- <rravc. and in such a way as to prove that he I lions? Wheu a man quotes another s he is presumed to know when, where, and up, n what occasion they* were ultmedjif himself had rather raven upon the reputa tion >f the dead than ofthe living! Verily South Carolitiina has given birth to two of John iq particular, wp will deduce from i * a h thig vharge stands in llie extract, it miglii h's own coufossions prcsontlv. j be understood as made iipun Mr. Perry's own re* Samuel Towns married Lucrotia, the ' sponsildliiy, but ( am very sure that he did not daughter of William Calhoun • ..f *-b,- I intend that it should be so understood. ; of course “he ! * nition in a biKitlossexpcrinicnt. and Jonathan bad saved all bis for future uses. Thus mv fancy pictured the scene and my moral tex ture made it rich to me. Never did I dream, ucxcr dm 1 Immpsou dream, that tins harm less little anecdote would cicrbc brought be fore the world distorted, stuffed, and pet ver ted, niululated, with all the sense and spirit ked outefit, to prove that Johu C. Cal- | sue-1 sue-.nd titui and “spoke to him, ’ : ondes- ctii‘*on shove, to Mr. C. which he did not re- repeat for n any years,” how many he does nut teh us in this piaeo, but he leaks it out 'ti uuuihcrand ilionumber was a ju-t a r utnd j they be of record, bra is pmumed tu have seventeen, t' hat Mr. ( sai*- r did In of- j record iiijpossession oi within ca-v reneli fond him. be does not infirm us. I In le |j s us | y lu , n ^.; v0 us t | ie j, r(>u f y} r j* ^ ta e c col| . ■-list in 1832 (h having now reached the* ad | u ccy. So much for the first political v a need age ef twenty-eighti •die beeaum I m,, tha, mined Mr. Calhoun iu Guv. 1* ’* cs- j tiinntinii. and shucked his moral sensibilities I to su'di a degree that “ho could not sec. h ov t the author of it could bo a wise or sincere j "Ian. 1 have, therefore, dwelt upon it to an I unreasonable l iigth. The children of this greal sin arc many, and as it would require a volume to piy my respects to them all in dividually, 1 will group them up and dis- cn (he . I ways t i act with them vU-.u I in ap- l oppose the adiniiii-’ratiou i! i dt-dre to se. power change hands, it a-1-u- eause 1 disapprove d’ the gen Tul oi tti-c of those in autlioriiy. b -o-iuse they have depar jino iin- iower an ! patiouagt put into their iiidii ’•! a .aii si VIi Cal- vory strougl.' houn,’ and I.t* assigns his reasons for it; but In cut .'dr. l N acquiiiiitauce fiitir years bo- foru; and was it liberal, was it magnjuimmis, whs it humane, w - it courteous to leave air. Calhoun to inouni four long years overtire i loss of to dear a friend, without offering to him one short word of explanation or conso lation ? 'Four yours did I say ? Twenty-one; four without reason,ettndseventeen with.— Four for no sin at nil, and seventeen for sins purely political! Did poor Calhoun deserve such treatment ? pose of them in a lump. Mr. Calhoun wa* an “egotist.” “Ho thought and reasoned so rapidly and diic tly, and was so abaorbe 1 by the one subject for the time bring, that ° !| v luenso idi- ' 1” words « ‘ntinicutin icg.-.rd to slavery and the re in.- ; }s to secure •ion law-. These laws were ennfowediy eon-1 an j advance 'lie • ft it itioual aud yct she nliililied them offer t i. il | , ,. r » .,} jl,. u, mio ly within her border? Still she roniainr 1 j w . n nl obi cts. But tin* tibi: ty of the crinutrv ui :io “icd, they iiave per- p-i'ty instruments f.,r per- it ii.-.- m t been, nor will F \ in the Union to suck It, aud to curse it, and to torment it. and to disgrace it, witliou! i 1 . curling the di.'i'leature of even Mr Ferry ic i, 1 ventui" tlii- «tat**ment bectui-e be cm- j tbey it ' m ci clc i «yst 'matic iq positicn. Whatever or tin ii - I may deem right, I sh ill upp it. and I only desire tha* . t ventui - tlii- «tati-uient beeftu ••*'. he • m- j they ■-nail f. .« me more frequent ijlX ,8?. y. .;((pi -*.| m-V'r t > h :v. n.; ,r <j ii.) .-’ . ■ ‘ ' : * ;! '' : tor o,.;. >s;ti*,c n. - I loaning thy ’un .1 !':i'-in a r-o.i i “ , ! I' - " ' iliua i.e -i.iofce in iV, r -( .'q I has proved itscll'to be a ror ■• of Mos- ; 3 ■ l ire third time they met was at tne meet- j Ue tk# wlthout co ^ ;il cr ] sers. Yallaudigltaui, Yoorliec.-i an i congratulateyour-.-lvc* that this rope < did not gut round your m .As, 1 •; th.' 0)11111 a{ sympathy*) Sir. I’crry gives us a will :c f.nl'J 1 “I Cal sins for which Mt. Claff un *X» ,l * | ”*~VoH»ndigheui HtHetl. Voorhee* was thi catcncl with .kuth, an’l Carry—v» i‘il. he began to publisii n spcach. ili? pro * was '•rprcsscih Id- spcacli wa« .upprcescvl, ari l he *•'•* JrprfKSea. \S1 for *;/::<fsothy. 18;,* lie made the great IVrry-elwok,'’ A sp Ui -\ i. of b.ui to timk in thcSttt* mg ,.te fur it. In reply ho had tho par. just quoted read. At the conclusion be said, “ n y arc rccoidcd H'litimct.le in 1 full aud explicit upitu oil tha * U WK* here that Foreytli* turg self in theiiel.'Dce ofthe old gene whipped the whole of them in di-bate. ^ [CO.NCLUDElr OS TIUKD fAOa.J