Selections From the Letters And Speeches of the Hon James H Hammond of South
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He subsequently consented to have his name with- drawn in favor of Gen. Jackson. He was then nomi- nated for the Vice-Presidency — was elected by a large majority, and took his seat as President of the Senate in 1825. In regard to his direct connection with that body as its presiding officer, it is, perhaps, sufficient to say that on all occasions he fully sustained his reputation. No iucident of lasting importance occurred to elicit any extraordinary display of peculiar qualities of mind or te...mperament, until near the close of his first term. But the period of that term constitutes a most im portant era in the annals of our country, and also in the life of Mr. Calhoun. And hence may be dated the third and last epoch in his career. I have already adverted to the fact, that the Re- publican party had long strayed from the straight and narrow path of constitutional construction in which it first set out. The events of the war had so utterly prostrated and disgraced the Federal Party, that at 250 its close, that party was dissolved, and the very name of Federalist almost universally repudiated.
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