Published by BEALS, HOMER & Co. Congress-street, and RUSSELL, ODIORNE 1833. DEBATE IN CONGRESS. IN SENATE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1833. SPEECH OF MR. CALHOUN OF S. CAROLINA, Mr. CALHOUN rose and addressed the Senate. He knew not which, he said, was most objectionable, the provi sion of the bill, or the temper in which its adoption had been urged. If the extraordinary powers with which the bill proposed to clothe the Executive, to the utter prostration of the Constitution, and the rights of the States, be calculated to impress our minds with alarm, at the rapid progress of despotism in our country; the zeal with which every circumstance, calculated to misrepresent or exaggerate the conduct of Carolina in the controversy, was seized on, with a view to excite hostility against her, but too plainly indicated the deep decay of that brotherly feeling which once existed between these States, and to which we are indebted for our beautiful Federal system. It was not his intention, he said, to advert to all these misrepresentations, but there were some so well calculated to mislead the mind, as to the real character of the controversy, and hold up the State in a light so odious, that he did not feel himself justified in permitting them to pass unnoticed. Among them, one of the most prominent was the false statement, that the object of South Carolina was to exempt herself from her share of the public burthens, while she participated in the advantages of the Government. If the charge were true-if the State were capable of being actuated by such low and unworty motives, mother as he considered her, he would not stand upon this floor to vindicate her conduct. Among her faults, and faults he would not deny she had, no one had ever yet charged her with that low and most sordid of vices-avarice. Her conduct on all occasions had been marked with the very opposite quality. From the commencement of the revolution-from its first breaking out at Boston, till this hour, no State had been more profuse of its blood in the cause of the country: nor had any contributed so largely to the common treasury, in proportion to her wealth and population. She had in that proportion contributed more to the exports of the Union, on the exchange of which, with the rest of the world, the |