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"I suppose his clothes were made by a Western Reserve tailor." "Probably," answered his classmate, smiling. "He looks like a confirmed rustic." "That is true, but there is something in him. I am in his division, and I can tell you that he has plenty of talent." "His head is big enough." "Yes, he has a large brain a sort of Websterian intellect. He is bound to be heard of."
I joined the Websterian Society and frequently debated, and was one of the three or four orators chosen by the school to "orate" in a grove on the shore of the lake, on the Fourth of July. I held forth in the true spread-eagle style. I entered into the sports of the school, ball-playing and rowing on the lake, with the zest of youth.
Calhoun through the tortuous mazes of his second essay; nor, if we could, should we be able to draw readers after us. We can only say this: Let it be granted that there are two ways in which the Constitution can be fairly interpreted; one, the Websterian method; the other, that of Mr. Calhoun. On one of these interpretations the Constitution will work, and on the other it will not.
Whether voting secession or accepting it on State mandate, Southern men naturally resented being called traitors or rebels. By the Websterian conception of the nature of our government they were so, but by Calhoun's they were simply acting out the Constitution in the best of faith. No recognized arbiter or criterion existed to determine between the two views.
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