Phenix Gazette

Is it true, that Mr. Calhoun, and not Mr. Crawford, as was believed for years after the event—a belief which at that time, especially in Virginia, and more especially, with a certain contemporary, who in 1819, and up to 1824, eschewed Gen. Jackson as "a curse."—added vastly to Mr. Crawford's popularity—is it true, that Mr. Calhoun was the member of Mr. Monroe's cabinet, who had the firmness, magnanimity, the generous devotion, to counsel the arrest of the man who with arms in his hands, trampled on the constitution of the United States, the rights of Georgia, and the dignity of the American people?

If it be true, Crawford has lost, and Calhoun won, the greenest and most beautiful sprig that adorns his chaplet. The advice was that of Cato the younger, when he demanded that Caesar should disband his Legions, and return to Rome, to answer for his disobedience and contempt of the laws. We know not if our taste be correct, but we had rather have been the author of that noble and Roman stand in Mr. Monroe's cabinet, than all that Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Crawford have ever done for their country, besides. Is this the sin which Mr. Crawford now wishes to fix upon Mr. Calhoun? Alas! we fear that Mr. Calhoun has not deserved the proud distinction of having been the only one to vindicate the honor of the country, at a crisis which deeply tarnished it. The man who voted for Amos Kendall, to please his master, could hardly have given that heroic advice.—Richmond Whig.