only trace like the comet, by the light he casts upon his path, or the blaze he leaves in his train. But the situation to which he has been recently elevated, has fear, abridged his sphere of usefulness, and as Secretary of War, Mr. Calhoun, who occupied every tongue during the session of the national legislature, may dwindle into obscurity, but will never be forgotten."?

Without a capactty for long. continued, and patient investigations no one can be a man of business; and Mr. Calhoun although a brilliant orator, was not considered in Congress, as a man of business. in the proper sense of the word. An orator, and a man of business in Congress, are frequently very distinct things. It is easily shewn that Mr. Calhoun took an active and decided part in most of the important subjects debated in the House of Repre sentatives; and we have members enough who speak eloquently and ably upon every question, but who really have but little capacity for business.

This eulogist presumed that because Mr. Calhoun was wanting in the essential requisites of an able and useful Secretary of War, he must consequently dwindle into obscurity. No conclusion could be more erroneous. Mr. Calhoun s far from dwindling into obscurity, has - endeavoured to dazzle the nation with the novelty and splendour of his atchievements, and his success has cost the country some millions of dollars. He will not dwindle into obscurity, while his magnificent and visionary schemes continue to drain our treasury. He will not be forgotten, while the Yellow Stone expedition, or Rip Rap contracts shall be remembered.

Whatever has been said to place this aspiring Secretary, in the intellectual scale, above the first men of our country of his acquiring by intuition, what other men can only acquire by application and study-Whatever has been said of the lihtning glance of his end, his splendor, his effulgence, his bursting upon the world, and a thousand other such fooleries, deserves only to be treated with ridicule But what has been said of his economy and the great savings he has made for the nation; as it is calculated to impose upon the public, deserves, and shall receive more a serious notice. Se bon From the 106th number of the New York Patriot,

edited by Col. Gardner, we take the following quotation: Is there an individual among the promising candidates, the structure of whose moral feelings and sentiments, the elementary principle of whose character, form a striking resemblance to those of Washington? We most confidently answer in the affirmative. If, since the days of Washington, a Star has appeared in our political firmament, whose rising effulgence has attracted the eyes of the American People, and inspired the real friends of the country with new and peculiar hopes and anticipations, if an individual has risen among us, who has check20ed in the bosom of patriotism, the unavailing regret, while it has mourned over the memory of Washington, that individual is Mr. Calhoun.

"We take the position with confidence, that there is not a prominent man in our country, whose private and political character bears so strong a resemblance to Washington, as that of Mr. Calhoun, and if a resemblance to Washington is a proper test in selecting the next president, Mr. Calhoun will be elected."

As this is the first time the officers of the Army have ́undertaken to make a president, something new was expected of them As that they would bedaub their candidate with a profusion of tinsel and gold lace, display something of the "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war," and so forth; for all which, the public was was prepared to make due allowance. But to exhibit him as a new Star rising in our political firmanent, whose effulgence has attracted the eyes of the American People, is a dashing evolution, an intrepid plunge into the regions of folly, that has astonished the nation. These officers have sent up their young candidate like a sky-rocket. enveloped in blaze and smoke to the wonder and admiration of all beholders, but in this, decency has been outraged, and common sense dismissed the service.

We have never had any thing like this before, and it is to be hoped, we may never have any like it hereafter. The other candidates for the presidency, make no pretesions to the lustre or effulgence of stars, they are decent, modest, opaque bodies, reflecting only borrowed li, and moving about upon the surface of the earth, much after the manner and fashion of other mortals.

In the Columbia Telescope, of South Carolina, of the 9th of April, 1822, we have the following extract of a letter from a gentleman at Washington, Calhoun will be the next President. For the benefit of the country, God grant he may. South Carolina bas given to the nation, the ablest man whoever filled the War Department, and unless public opinion be most fallible will soon present our Country, with as great a Statesman as ever presided over this People. I cannot in reflecting on this subject, avoid recurring to the declaration of the lamented Dr. Dwight concerning Calhoun, that he had at one and twenty, talents enough for a President of the United States. There was something of Prophecy in it." !!!

Soon shall be as great a statesman, &c. Soon here, means the 4th of March, 1825. If by that time, Mr. Calhoun, with such oppo tunities of acquiring knowledge as these times afford, shall be as great a statesman as Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison or Monroe, with all their experience, acquired during a long series of arduous and important services, performed for our country, in times of our greatest adversity as well as prosperity, he must indeed, be the most extraordinary young man, that ever attracted the eyes of the American People. And at all events he has very extraordinary friends.

In the same paper we have a communication headed "Economy-Mr. Calhoun."-" There is no virtue so necessary in a repblican government as economy," &c.

In the same paper of the 16th of April, 1822, we again have "Economy Mr. Calhoun."" Great savings in the War Department" By the splendor of his own merits he [meaning Mr. Calhoun] atchieved his course to power and influence. by the force of his own ability, and the strength of his own integrity, he has maintained his situation, daily enlarging the circle of his own reputation, and transmitting the solid and permanent benefits of his administration into every section of the Union." Trash like this, enough to fill a volume, might easily be collected from the public papers of the last two years.

Economy and Calhoun are kept together, probably in stereotype, in these newspapers, as if there was really

some connexion between them; as if they were convertible terms; as if they meant the same thing, or as if Çalhoun was economy personified. But this is an unnatural association, only to be found in the newspapers. A little examination will shew that Mr. Calhoun is a total stranger to economy.

How did he consult economy in his efforts to perpetuate the abuse of brevet pay to the officers of the army, > which abuse, Congress were under the necessity of correcting by law?

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How did he consult economy in his efforts to prevent every proper reduction of the army?

How did he consult economy in his wild and visionary scheme of sending an army to the Yellow Stone river fifteen hundred miles up the Missouri, or in the expensive and wretched manner, in which a part of that expedition was conducted?

How did he consult economy when he loaned, or advanced without authority to Daniel Buzzard, ten thousand dollars of the public money, to build a powder mill for the said Buzzard, which loan was to remain three years without interest, and then to be returned, not in money, but in powder which was not wanted, and at a price much above its value?

How did he consult economy in the Rip Rap con

tracts?

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These and many other cases of a similar character, present interesting subjects for critical examination. ས་ ་ shall, however, select a subject for a future communication, depending chiefly upon Documentary evidence, which will afford a very distinct view of Mr. Calhoun'e system of economy. I mean his causing 3211 men to be recruited for the service of the year 1820, when Congress restricted the recruiting for that year to 1500 men; or, in other words, his recruiting 1500 men by the authority of Congress, and 1711, by the authority of the War Department; and this after he had been required by the House of Representatives, to report a plan for reducing the army from 10,000 to 6,000 men.

CASSIUS.

NO. II.

"ECONOMY-MR. CALHOUN.”

"Great savings in the War Department."

COLUMBIA TELESCOPE.

The power of the Secretary of War had arrived at its highest point about the close of the year 1819. He had produced a strong impression upon the Members of Congress, as well as upon the puplic, that to oppose his measures, was to oppose the administration of the Presisident of the United States; and thus he availed himself, to a certain extent, of the weight of Mr. Monroe's character. He had also produced another strong impression, which still seems to prevail, that he had more influence than any other member of the cabinet, in procuring appointments to office; and, this, however groundless, has been of the greatest advantage to him. It has given him extensive influence, and added prodigiously to the fascination of his manners. It has brought to his party, all the office hunters in the Union; and taken collectively, they are a very formidable body."

His measures thus far, although considered as wild and extravagant by some of the old fashioned republicans, had met with no decided opposition by a majority of either house of Congress. But his estimates of the appropriations neceessary for his department for the year 1820, startled those who had placed some reliance on his his prudence and talents for business. Even those who had believed all the accounts of the "great savings in the War Department," now began to examine for themselves into his expenditures. The consequence of which was, that a majority of both houses of Congress concurred in the propriety of arresting the Secretary in his favorite,