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Updated: May 20, 2025
In one of the hospital tents for special cases, as I sat to-day tending a new amputation, I heard a couple of neighboring soldiers talking to each other from their cots. One down with fever, but improving, had come up belated from Charleston not long before. The fever soldier spoke of John C. Calhoun's monument, which he had seen, and was describing it.
South Carolina took the lead, and indeed stood alone, in applying a remedy more drastic than the disease nullification. Calhoun's logic welded and sharpened the weapon which had behind it almost the entire weight of the State.
He sat looking at me with amusement and amazement both upon his face, as I went on: "Listen to what I am to do in the meantime. First I go post haste to Mr. Calhoun's office. Then I am to take his message, which will send me to Canada, to-night. After I have my orders I hurry back to Brown's and dress for my wedding." The glass in his hand dropped to the floor in splinters. "Your wedding?"
It was almost two hours later 1500 hours ship-time when the people of Dara were informed by broadcast that Calhoun was publicly to be executed; immediately. From the viewpoint of Darians, the decision of Calhoun's guilt and the decision to execute him were reasonable enough.
Murgatroyd climbed up into Calhoun's lap and with a determined air went to sleep there. Calhoun disturbed him long enough to get an instrument out of his pocket. He listened to Murgatroyd's heartbeat with it while Murgatroyd dozed. "Maril," he said. "Write down something for me. The time, and ninety-six, and one-twenty over ninety-four." She obeyed, not comprehending.
I myself was dismissed from the service without pay sad enough blow for a young man who had been married less than a year. Mr. Polk's jealousy of John Calhoun was not the only cause of this. Calhoun's prophecy was right. Polk did not forget his revenge on me. Yet, none the less, after his usual fashion, he was not averse to receiving such credit as he could.
Something in Calhoun's voice roused the rage of Lord Mallow, but he controlled it, and said calmly: "Don't talk nonsense, sir; we shall walk together, if you will." At the entrance to the house of the general, the man to whom this visit meant so much stopped and took a piece of paper from his pocket. "Your honour, here is the name of the slayer of Erris Boyne.
The sweeping up of the dead leaves, the gathering of the fallen branches, and the weeding out of the paths, changes the aspect of the place, and gives the passer-by a prodigious idea of the efficiency of the new broom. The country was alive, too, to the necessity of coast and frontier defences, and there was much building of forts during the seven years of Mr. Calhoun's tenure of place.
In truth there was nothing whatever in these disclosures, for which was paid an amount equal to the salary of half a presidential term, to warrant the assumptions of either Mr. Madison's messages or Mr. Calhoun's report.
Indeed Calhoun's defense of Protection, from the assaults of those from New England and elsewhere who assailed it on the narrow ground that it was inimical to commerce and navigation, was a notable one. The country will from this derive much advantage. Again it is calculated to bind together more closely our wide-spread Republic.
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