. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . and stops while you answer ; he either passes by what you say, or twists itinto a suitability with what is in his head, and begins to lecture again. Miss Martineau also saw Calhoun in South Carolina, where he was thepolitical teacher and guide, and the acknowledged chief:— During my stay in Charleston, Mr. Calhoun and his family arrived from Congress, andthere was something very striking in the welcome he received, like that of a chief returned to thebosom of his clan. He stalked about like a monarch of the little domain, and the
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . and stops while you answer ; he either passes by what you say, or twists itinto a suitability with what is in his head, and begins to lecture again. Miss Martineau also saw Calhoun in South Carolina, where he was thepolitical teacher and guide, and the acknowledged chief:— During my stay in Charleston, Mr. Calhoun and his family arrived from Congress, andthere was something very striking in the welcome he received, like that of a chief returned to thebosom of his clan. He stalked about like a monarch of the little domain, and there was certainlyan air of mysterious understanding between him and his followers. The agitation of the slavery question, from 1835 to 1S50, was chiefly thework of this one man. The labors of Mr. Garrison and Mr. Wendell Phillips,saysParton, might have borne no fruit during their lifetime, if Calhoun had notmade it his business to supply them with material, I mean to force the issueupon the North, he once wrote ; and he did force it. The denial of the right 3.
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