Statue of Hon John C Calhoun Erected in Statuary Hall of the Capitol At Washin
Statue of Hon John C Calhoun Erected in Statuary Hall of the Capitol At Washin
United States. Congress (52nd, 1st Session : 1891-1892)
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Calhoun hastened secession, he did it by no incon- sistent or unconstitutional course. If he hastened secession, perhaps it was better than that the smoldering fires should have broken in greater fury from being longer pent up. If this Nation was to be convulsed, its domestic systems upturned, and a new and changed order of things inaugurated, some master mind, under the providence of God, had to give definite human shape to the plan of reversal. • May he not have been the instrument? It is a f...itting tribute to the memory of that great man that his beloved State has set his statue here, beside those the I20 Statue of Hon. John C. Calhoun events of whose lives were interlaced with his. I feel as though we are giving him back to the Republic, after the mist of sec- tional prejudice has risen. His purity of life, his power and sublimity of thought, must find responsive appreciation in that higher sphere of American thought where the qualities of mind and heart are considered. I can but believe that the day is dawning when the Nation will again take him to her bosom; that she in truth welcomes his statue into the circle of those who in their lives molded and defended her, and who, standing here in enduring marble, will keep their silent vigil over her destinies throughout the coming ages.
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