. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . JOHN C. CALHOUN. 629 of petition, the annexation of Texas, the forcing of slavery into the Territories,—these were among the issues upon which he hoped to unite the South in hisfavor, while retaining enough strength at the North to secure his election to thePresidency. Failing in all his schemes of personal advancement, he died in 1850,still protesting that slavery is divine, and that it must rule this country or ruin life came to an end in March, 1850, before the Compromise Billof that year had once more postponed th
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . JOHN C. CALHOUN. 629 of petition, the annexation of Texas, the forcing of slavery into the Territories,—these were among the issues upon which he hoped to unite the South in hisfavor, while retaining enough strength at the North to secure his election to thePresidency. Failing in all his schemes of personal advancement, he died in 1850,still protesting that slavery is divine, and that it must rule this country or ruin life came to an end in March, 1850, before the Compromise Billof that year had once more postponed the irrepressible conflict. On the 4tb. OSCEOLA S INDIGNATION. of March his last speech was read in the Senate by a friend, he then being tooweak to deliver it. Three days afterward, when Webster delivered his famous 7th of March speech, Calhoun Hterally rose from his dying bed thathe mightbe present, and sat for the last time in his accustomed seat, his rigid face andintense gaze giving him a weird and unearthly aspect. On the 24th of the samemonth he died ; and his ashes were taken to Charleston, there to mingle withthe soil of the State to which he had given a lifes devotion, and which had re-warded him with unfailing love and honor. ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE PRESERVER OK THE UXION. BY PROF. W. W. BIRDSALL*
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