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Aspersions were being cast upon his beloved New England; the Constitution was under attack; the Union itself was being called in question. Webster's decision was instantaneous: Hayne must be answered and answered while his arguments were still hot.
Clancy has except perhaps two hundred dollars all belongs to Lieutenant Hayne, since he paid off every cent that was stolen from Captain Hull." Supplemented by Mrs. Clancy's rueful and incoherent admissions, Clancy's story did its work. Mrs.
Calhoun and Cheves were for years among the most ardent exponents of broad constitutional construction; Hayne himself was elected to the Senate in 1822 as a nationalist, and over another candidate whose chief handicap was that he had proposed that his State secede rather than submit to the Missouri Compromise. After 1824 sentiment rapidly shifted.
Webster, in his great speech in the Senate against the State sovereignty doctrine of General Hayne and Mr. Calhoun, which won for him the honorable title of Expounder of the Constitution and expound it he, no doubt, did in the sense of its framers.
Don't let him loose, Misther Foster!" she screamed to the officer of the guard, who at that moment appeared on the full run. "What's the trouble?" he asked, breathlessly. "Clancy seems to have been drinking, and wants to talk with me about something, Mr. Foster," said Hayne, quietly. "He belongs to my company, and I will be responsible that he goes home. It is really Mrs.
Governor Hayne issued a counter-proclamation, while Calhoun resigned the vice-presidency in order to represent South Carolina on the floor of the Senate. In January the President sent another message to Congress asking for authority to suppress rebellion.
If they had disagreements, they were kept to themselves; and even in a case which in its day had attracted wide-spread attention the Riflers had long since learned to shun all talk outside. It was evident to other commands that the Hayne affair was a sore point and one on which they preferred silence.
Webster heard his State and himself mercilessly attacked by General Hayne, of South Carolina, no mean antagonist.
Southern gentlemen like Calhoun or Hayne might accept the mild and humane God of Channing, but not the farmers of the rural districts or the business men of the small towns. If Boston cultivated philosophy and religious reform, New York was the seat of a literature that was read.
She was loved throughout the regiment for her kindliness and grace of mind, as well as for her devotion to the sick and suffering in the old days of the Indian wars, and Stannard had made a similar proffer and been similarly refused, and he had gone away indignant. He thought Mr. Hayne too bumptious to live; but he bore no malice, and his wrath was soon over.
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