cAIaIIoUNAND WEBSTER.
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Daniel Webster npd John Caldwell Calhoun were born in the same year One the son of a respec la ble northern far mcr, who cmigra,ed into New HaMp. shire when it was wilderness, and serv- cd as an officer in the old French war and the Revolution and the other, of a routhcrn planter. of similar circumstan- ces. who was pioneer in tho forests of Carolina, and with tho same rank, fought the Cherokees and the British. The ta- thers of both, after distinguishing lhem> selves in the field were called to honor able civil stations, but they continued to be cultivutors of ihe soil, and their sons, after partially acquiring their education, decided to follow their inherited occupa- tions, and passed some three years in the quiet pursuits of agriculture. What changed the purpose of Webster is un- known, but Calhoun was led to study his profession by the jus, appreciation of an elder brother. When Christopher Gore presented his pupil, young Danil Web- st r, for admission to the bar of Boston, he ven,ured u prediction of h,s future emi- hence, which all his present fame has not more than fulfilled, and Doctor Dw- ghf, about the same time, ut the close ef il cIass examination at Yale College, fore toldS that his southern student. John Caldwell Calhoun. would ene day bc President of the United States. For while, they fingered about tho northern and sonlhern horizons, and then simul- laneously shot up iuso mid-haven, with a steady. but different Iusirs, 10 fix the gaze, not of their admiring couatrymen only, but of mankind. Whatever may now or hereafter be the estimation in which any man or men engaged in our public affairs may be held, Daniel Web ser and John Caldwell Calhoun will c: n. ,inue to be regarded as the rePresenta> lives of the genius me of the lending oonions in political philosophy. held by the northern and southern staees of tho confederacy in the frs, hult ofthe nine : teenth century.