THE CAROLINA TRIBUTE TO CALHOUN. EDITED BY J. P. THOMAS. "This was the noblest Roman of them all."-SHAKSPEARE. COLUMBIA, S. C.: 1857. U.S.5003.43 ALLEGE DEC 201910 LINHART Gift of 1 PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF "THE SOUTII CAROLINIAN." PREFACE. THE PRESENT VOLUME is commended to the People of South Carolina with every confidence that it will be accepted by them as a valued memento of a sad but cherished past. Designed mainly to commemorate the death of CALHOUN, it embraces all the important incidents, ceremonies, and testimonials connected with that great event; together with the several discourses, addresses, and orations, elicited from the full hearts of admiring Carolinians. The death at Washington; the meeting in the Senate Hall; the removal home of the mortal remains; the imposing demonstration at Charleston; the Cemetery of St. Philip's; the plain marble slab with its brief though expressive inscription; and then the solemn gathering of our people in various quarters, these are the scenes which the volume depicts-these the recollections it revives. It thus speaks forcibly to the heart, and, moreover, presents a record of mingled love, admiration, and grief, such we conceive as has been vouchsafed to but very few men. Herein are contained the remarks in Congress of distinguished Senators and Representatives; the Sermon of the Chaplain of the Senate; the Report of the Committee of Twenty-five; the Narrative of the Funeral Honors at Charleston; the Message of Governor Seabrook; the Discourses of the Rev. Messrs. Barnwell, Thornwell, Miles, Palmer, and Smith; and the Orations-instinct with thought and feeling-of Messrs. Allston, Coit, Henry, Whyte, Porcher, Hammond, Rhett, and Porter. Nor must we omit to refer to the Resolutions of the Pennsylvania and the New York Legislature, the Proceedings of the New York Historical Society, and to other memorials of rare interest; all bearing the highest testimony to the virtues and the services of our great statesman, and showing how well the splendor of his public conduct accorded with the stainless purity of his private life. Precious, therefore, are the memories which this volume embalms; useful is the lesson it teaches; and deathless the spirit it excites. Filled with thoughts of high import-with the sentiments both of laymen and divines, its pages wear the chaste impress of truth, and glow with the fire of genuine eloquence. Impressively they tell of patriotism and noble self-devotion; of duty and its stern behests; of greatness and its large rewards; of laurels won and cypress scattered. With respect to the Engraving here given-which was executed expressly for |