18/21 "The split was in the wood of their proposed platform of bluff and insincerity. 'What do they _think_ ?' asks John Calhoun. And being now, in God's providence; chosen to do some thinking for them, I have thought." He turned to the table and took up a long, folded document, which I saw was done in his cramped hand and with many interlineations. "Copy this out fair for me to-night, Nicholas," said he. "This is our answer to the Aberdeen note. |