Calhoun could be matched; but not so easily the strength and steadiness of his virtue; not so easily his exemption from all that was underhand; not so easily his repudiation of all truckling as the price of his own exaltation.

A few concluding words. Our material prosperity has been amazing. Is it as certain that political morality increases in our country? There are those who anxiously ask themselves that question. The widening arena of contests for the Presidency; the passions, intrigues, disappointments and exasperations, they stir up under our rapidly augmenting population, making the prize more tempting, and incalculably increasing the competitors for it,-these things are enough, without other foreshadowings, to start solicitudes to the bosoms of the reflecting. If there be cause for solicitude in all or any of these omens, let every occasion be improved for striving to avert it. Let Calhoun's death be one of them. Let our young men imitate his moral course as the best public safeguard. A great country is to be in their hands. Its institutions, its freedom, its past and prospective renown, open a magnificent future. But not if subordinate men with cunning minds bear sway. This, in the end, would undermine it for all that is highest, purest, and most lasting; for all that is truly great in nations. And this would happen, though our fields might continue to produce their crops, our workshops their fabrics, our sea

ports their ships and steamers, our mines gold, and our population indefinitely to increase.

The Senate has resolved that, at the call of his family, the remains of Mr. Calhoun are to be removed to his native State for interment. They will be in charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms, as specially appointed to that solemnity. A deputation of Senators will form the solemn escort. In that State repose the ashes of the Marions, the Sumpters, the Laurenses, the Gadsdens, the Pinckneys, the Lowndeses, the Rutledges these are of her honored dead. The ashes of Calhoun will mingle with the sacred heap. Like Germanicus, he departed in life to return in death; and as the ashes of the great Roman were borne back to Italy, so Calhoun's to his beloved Carolina. Mourning crowds will await their approach. The widowed partner of his heart will be in their thoughts, deepening the general gloom—as when Agrippina bore the urn of Germanicus. But let her, let all, take consolation in the thought, that his tomb will be as a shrine, at which the youth of Carolina and the nation, may reanimate the patriotism and virtue which his life illustrated.

LETTER

TO A COMMITTEE OF INVITATION FROM THE DISTRICT OF PENN,

IN THE COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA,

REFERRING TO

THE QUESTION OF AFRICAN SLAVERY,

AND

THE COMPROMISE ACT OF 1850.