He attempted to deliver it in the Senate on the 4th of March, but was so weak that he requested Mr.Mason of Virginia to read it for him.

On two or three subsequent occasions Mr.
Calhoun made brief extempore remarks showing each time a gradual decay of strength.

He died on the last day of March.

Most touching and appreciative eulogies were delivered by Mr.Clay and Mr.Webster, after his death had been announced by his colleague, Judge Butler.
Mr.Clay spoke of his "transcendent talents," of his "clear, concise, compact logic," of his "felicity in generalization surpassed by no one." He intimated that he would have been glad to see Mr.Calhoun succeed Mr.Monroe in the Presidency in 1820.

Mr.Webster, who always measured his words, spoke of him as "a man of undoubted genius and commanding talent, of unspotted integrity, of unimpeached honor." Mr.Calhoun had been driven by his controversies with Jackson into a position where he was deprived of popular strength in the free States.