Homes of American statesmen: . thathe might have rejoiced at an opportunity to serve it; but wouldhe have swerved one iota from his convictions to secure a king-dom ? Who, that knew him, believes it ? Mr. Calhoun was an author as well as a statesman, and inthe dissertations on the constitution and on government pub-lished since his death, has bequeathed us the ripened fruits ofhis life-long study. They are works of the rarest penetrationand sagacity, of subtle logic, of earnest conviction, of profoundobservation of men and things, and of unquestionable genius. 412 HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN.
Homes of American statesmen: . thathe might have rejoiced at an opportunity to serve it; but wouldhe have swerved one iota from his convictions to secure a king-dom ? Who, that knew him, believes it ? Mr. Calhoun was an author as well as a statesman, and inthe dissertations on the constitution and on government pub-lished since his death, has bequeathed us the ripened fruits ofhis life-long study. They are works of the rarest penetrationand sagacity, of subtle logic, of earnest conviction, of profoundobservation of men and things, and of unquestionable genius. 412 HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN. The particular conclusions at which the writer arrives, as tothe nature and limits of government, and as to the amend-ments that ought to be made in the constitution of the UnitedStates, will not be adopted by large classes of readers ; butnone of them will arise from a perusal of his pages, withoutan additional admiration of the keenness and force of his in-tellect, the ardor of his patriotism, and the purity of
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