It will equally adjudge him to have been wrong in his theory of the Federal Government, and dead to the awakened sentiment of Christendom in his views concerning the enslavement of man.
Mr.Calhoun's published works show the extent of his participation in the national councils.

They exhibit his zeal, the intensity of his convictions, and at the same time the clearness and strength of his logic.

His premises once admitted, it is difficult to resist the force of his conclusions.

Mr.Webster assailed his premises, and in their debate of February 16, 1833, defeated him, as another senator remarked, "by the acuteness of his definitions,"-- thus meeting Mr.Calhoun on his own ground.

The war and its results have in large degree remanded the theories of Mr.Calhoun to the past, but no intelligent student of the institutions of the United States can afford to neglect his elaborate, conscientious, able discussions.