That truth is welcome to no man, morbid or sane, sound or ill; but brave men meet it as this one did.
"Time to do much!" he murmured to himself.

"Time to mend many broken vessels, in those two years.

One more fight--yes, let us have it!" But Calhoun the man was lost once more in Calhoun the visionary, the fanatic statesman.

He summed up, as though to himself, something of the situation which then existed at Washington.
"Yes, the coast is clearer, now that Webster is out of the cabinet, but Mr.Upshur's death last month brings in new complications.

Had he remained our secretary of state, much might have been done.