The Middlebury People's Press

MR. CALHOUN IN 1836.

The annexed etchings—so called from the escharotic process of the act—are in Mr. Calhoun's most artistic style; and they may, peradventure, be read with more than their primitive interest, just now, while the artist is using his best efforts "neither to seek nor to decline" the Presidency. We snip them from the Knoxville Register.

The PORTRAITS.—Who has forgotten Mr. Calhoun's description of Gen. Jackson or the contemptuous language used by him in relation to Mr. Van Buren in a speech delivered in the Senate while Mr. V. Buren was President of that body?

Here is his portrait of Gen Jackson.

"Gen. Jackson (said Mr. C.) has many high qualities: has courage and firmness; is bold, warlike and audacious—though not true to his word or faithful to his pledges!"

Here are falsehood and treachery charged upon the old Hero in one breath.

Now look at his picture of Mr. Van Buren:

"Mr. Van Buren (said he in the same speech) has none of these recommendations; he is not of the race of the lion or tiger; he belongs to a lower order—the fox for the weasel."

This was Mr. Calhoun's language in 1836. And this is the man that is now about casting himself into the arms of the friends of the men he thus stigmatized!