JOHN C. CALHOUN AS SEEN BY HIS POLITICAL FRIENDS: LETTERS OF DUFF GREEN, DIXON H. LEWIS AND RICHARD K. CRALLE DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1831 TO 1848. EDITED BY FREDERICK W. MOORE, PH. D., VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY. (Concluded in this number.) From-Duff Green. To-R. K. Crallê, Lynchburg, Va. Dated-Washington, December 30, 1843. Green has arranged to establish "a free press," the "Republic," in New York. "Mr. Calhoun has, I hear, written to the Senators from S. Carolina (both of whom are absent) that he will not permit his name to be presented to the Baltimore Convention. Adams & his committee will as I learn report in favor of an amendment to the constitution depriving the south of the representation on account of our slave population. The Van Buren men will yield on the question of slavery and the tariff." "We can secure the cooperation of the North West.... The Texas, the Oregon, and the Tariff are all questions cementing the South & N. West. All that is wanting is a spir ited development of the policy & tendency of the measures of the Abolitionists of this country & of England & to show the concert between them, to rally the people." From-Duff Green. To-R. K. Crallé, Lynchburg, Va. Through "The Republic" Green has issued a call for a convention to meet in Philadelphia on July 4. "I am laboring to throw on Ritchie the responsibility of defeating the party, and if he does not back out we will be compelled to make war on the Junta, and I know no man so competent as you are to do it. I will get an able writer to do up the Albany Junta, another to do up the Essex Junta, and you must do up Ritchie and the Richmond Junta." "Benton's purpose is to compel us to choose between Van & Clay, & he is making up his issues for the succession, let who will come in. We have to meet denunciation with denunciation." "The old set are dying off and we must save the new who are coming on the field. To do this we must give them a platform to stand upon, and to do this we must throw overboard the old party leaders. We must prevent any nomination by the Balt. Convention." From-A. Mazyck. To-R. K.. Crallé. Dated-Aiken, S. C., September 13, 1854. Is familiar with the rumor that Calhoun was the author "of Johnsons famous Sunday mail Report;" but knows no confirmation of it. Calhoun's Address to the people of the United States declining to go before the Convention as a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1844, dated February, 1844, "was sent to Charleston to be submitted to some of his friends there for revision before it should be published. I was present at |