Eulogy On the Late Honorable John Caldwell Calhoun Delivered At Columbia South
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From the flood the tide dates its ebb. From the meridian the sun com- mences his decline. Depend upon it, there is more of sound philosophy, than of fiction in the fickleness, which poets attribute to fortune. Prosperity has its weakness, adversity its strength. In many respects our enemy has lost by these changes, which seem so very much in his favor. He can no more claim to be struggling for existence ; no more to be fighting the battles of the world, in defence of the liberties of mankind. "... Never was political prophecy more amply verified. In a few short months from the time it was uttered, the veterans, who had marched almost in continual triumph, from Lisbon to Paris, were destined, at New Orleans^ to resign the palm of victory into the (O)- >_' mil III |||||BiiB MiMi i nT'-''""**^'*>«»i;^»^r»^t'3>»-KPi'w*t««rarwwt^r^^ aa 19 hands of troops, that had never frequented the tented field, nor felt their spirits stirred, by the glorious con- course of arms. From behind the darkest clouds of adversity, the star of our country burst forth, in more than its pristine effulgence.
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