Edgefield Advertiser

From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

Mr. Calhoun—Always manly in feeling and powerful in intellect, once the idol of the nation.—Mr. Calhoun has been treated, for some years past, by the presses of the North, with marked neglect, and worse than that, marked misrepresentation. He might have been President after Gen. Jackson if he would have stooped to little things, and those not so little nor so mean as politicians are accustomed to resort to. But he would not compel Mrs. Calhoun to invite into her society a woman whom the opinion of Washington had excluded, and this piece of manliness thrust him out of the succession, and brought Mr. Van Buren in.

His virtues have always drawn out the enthusiastic admiration and love of his friends. "Tell me," said a leading Whig of this city some months ago in conversation with Mr. Preston, on Mr. C.'s wonderful popularity at the South? "It is the purity of his character," replied Mr. P. no man ever becomes acquainted with him who does not love him." This was generous praise from a generous opponent.

Mr. C.'s noble stand last year in favor of law and order in Rhode Island, when some other interests in the democratic party were meanly and wickedly urging on the dogs of civil war, has done something to soften the prejudices against him which the tariff controversy had engendered.

He is again brought forward as a candidate for the presidency. His consistent moral and religious character, his great talents as a statesman, and his life of manly patriotism, will ensure him a host of ardent friends, so long as there are men in the republic to admire these qualities.

The letter which we print to-day, is a specimen of the man. He does not disguise that his opinions have somewhat changed since his entrance on public life. Whose opinions have not changed in thirty years? Most of our prominent statesmen have boxed round the compass in that time. Not one of them has changed less than Mr. Calhoun.