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Title: Statesmen
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886 Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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s accumulationwas lost or destroyed. He was a planter anda slave-owner, and his estate at Fort Hill, S. C,was well managed and prosperous. His slaveswere well treated and they came to him asan umpire, judge, and friend. A rigid justicecharacterized his management and regulatedall his doings with the highest and the low-est. One biographer says that his counte-nance at rest was strikingly marked by decisionand firmness; in conversation or when speak-ing, it became highly animated and expressive.His large, dark, brilliant, penetrating eyesstrongly impressed all who encountered theirglances. When addressing the Senate he stoodfirm, erect, accompanying his delivery with anangular gesticulation. His manner of speakingwas energetic, ardent, and rapid, and marked bya solemn earnestness which inspired a strong be-lief in his sincerity and deep conviction. Hevery rarely indulged in figures of speech, andseldom left any doubt as to his meaning. Heappears to have been utterly destitute of either
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74 STATESMEN wit or humor. Nathan Sargent says of him: Able as Mr. Calhoun certainly was, he foundan antagonist in Mr. Clay too adroit and readyfor him. He required time to prepare his matterand arrange his ideas, even to select his words.Mr. Clay did not, at least in a personal contro-versy. As he said, he was self-poised, everready, he could fire off-hand without rest. Mr.Calhoun, on the contrary, must have time to loadand take deliberate aim. In doing so he wassure to hit and penetrate the most vulnerablepoint of his antagonist, but while he was doingthis his antagonist would have hit him in a halfdozen places. I have said that he was destitute of humor,but he was sometimes the cause of wit in others.Even Webster, who seldom employed any pleas-antry in his speeches in the Senate, was pro-voked into a humorous sally when Calhoun, ongoing into the Cabinet of John Tyler, landed inthe camp of his former enemies. Webster re-ferred to a mock play written in England bysome wit to ridicule

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