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We bespeak the attention of the dispassion- ate reader, this week, to the Review of MT Calhoun's pamphlet, which occupies so large a portion of our paper It forces no other construction upon the acts of the Vice-Presi- dent, than what are warranted by the plain est interpretation of the English language In the early part of his public life, MT Cal houn was certainly republican of the Jeffer- sonian School. He was recognized as such until the suicidal act was passed in Congress, for compensating the members of that body, not after the fashion of republics, but accord ing to the usage of Kingly governments. That never to be forgotten act, which changed the terms of compensation from daily rate, to that of a fixed salary of fifteen hundred dol- Lars, the session, to each member, was pass ed through Congress in 1916. When the news of this odious law was announced in the southern States, it afflicted the public mind, not less than 7uar, hestilense, or .famine- Men who had embraced republicanism for righteousness sake, beheld with grief a deli becate attempt in Congress, to change the re- lation of that body with the country, so far as to sweep away the dependence, the respon- sabilities and the ties which should bind the Representative to his fellow-man, and which the apostles of liberty have decided to be the ,surest bulwarks against anti-republcant ten dencies. It is not our purpose to rest all the blame of that offensive lew upon the shonl-

 ders of the Vice President. Other southern members voted for it, innocently and incau- tiously, as our Trustees may have done few

 weeks since, without dulyconsidering the dsas-

 terswhich would inevitably follow. Our objectls

 to demonstrate that MT Calhoun with his usual

 zeal, spoke and voted for the law, and that the perplexities into which he was plunged by it, presented him to the world a changed { man. Not that he became so at once; or that this single act cancelled the labors of former { years; but the success with which he avoided

 punishment then, taught him how discreetly

 allegiance to the people might be foresworT

 in Congress, and how hard it was to detect

 him who henceforward would leave nothing

 in the power of witnesses. Like the Tigef

 which having obtained the first snuff of blood becomes more eager in the pursuit of it's prey q or like the gambler who having ,bafflSd ths < first stings of an offended consciencs be- kcomes more bold and impudent in his plans for plunder. At the next election MT Cal