. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . ay. Around him, says Mr. Hillard, wasthe landscape that he had loved, and above him was nothingbut the dome of the covering heaven. The sunshine fell uponthe dead mans face, and the breeze blew over it. A lover ofnature, he seemed to be gathered into her maternal arms, andto lie like a child upon a mothers lap. A vast crowd fromall parts of the Union within reach had assembled to take partin the ceremonies, and passed in silence by the body, to lookfor the last time upon the face New England had loved so well, In that cr
. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . ay. Around him, says Mr. Hillard, wasthe landscape that he had loved, and above him was nothingbut the dome of the covering heaven. The sunshine fell uponthe dead mans face, and the breeze blew over it. A lover ofnature, he seemed to be gathered into her maternal arms, andto lie like a child upon a mothers lap. A vast crowd fromall parts of the Union within reach had assembled to take partin the ceremonies, and passed in silence by the body, to lookfor the last time upon the face New England had loved so well, In that crowd there came one unknown man, in a plain andrustic garb, who truly and fitly, because in homeliest words,interpreted the thoughts that silently oppressed them all, when,looking down upon the face of the dead, he said, as if for him-self alone, Daniel Webster, the world, without you, will seemlonesome. When the funeral services were over, six sturdy New Englandfarmers bore the coffin on their shoulders to the grave, and laidthe dead statesman down to his eternal JOHN C. CALHOUN. JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN. ABOUT the year 1732, a Presbyterian family by the nameof Calhoun, consisting of the parents, four sons and adaughter, emigrated from the North of Ireland to America, andsettled in Pennsylvania. Somewhat later the family removedto Western Virginia, but were soon driven from their newhome by the Indians after the defeat of General Braddock. In1755 they passed Southward, hoping to find a securer place,and settled in the extreme West of South Carolina, in what isnow Abbeville District, but then an unbroken wilderness. The youngest of the four sons was Patrick Calhoun, who wastwenty-nine years old at the time the Calhoun settlement wasfounded. He was an earnest, impulsive man, and as stubbornas only a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian can be. He was also aman of sterling integrity and of great personal bravery. In1760 the Calhoun settlement was attacked by the Cherokees,who broke it up
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