Alexandria Gazette

MR. CALHOUN'S SPEECH,

We opened the Globe, yesterday, to see what that delectable print would have to say of Mr. Calhoun's speech on the Removal of the Deposites. Our curiosity was excited, because it had proclaimed Mr. Clay's speech to be a failure; Mr. McDuffie's to be mere fustian; Mr. Binney's we forget what, &c.; and we thought that it would cap the climax with some such opinion of equal correctness, with regard to Mr. Calhoun's speech. But Impudence was dumb!

We listened with much satisfaction to Mr. Calhoun. His speech was short, but conclusive. His language was strong and forcible, but always dignified; nor in the whole course of it did anything that was said calculated to injure the personal feelings of the President and his Secretary, notwithstanding their daring assumption of power was indignantly denounced.

Mr. Calhoun's feelings were perfectly under command, and in that respect the present occasion gave him an advantage over his effort on the Force Bill last winter. He laid down his propositions distinctly, clearly stated his arguments, and drew his conclusions most fairly and logically.

He agreed with Mr. Clay, who, he said, had remarked, with as much philosophy as eloquence; that we are in the midst of a revolution; but he differed from that gentleman in dating the commencement of that revolution. He fixed the virtual change in the government at the period when the protective system was established. [With deference it may be remarked, that the Hon. Senator here used a weapon which cut himself as well as others.] He then warmed on the subject of "the lost rights of the states:" denounced the Force Bill: eulogized the party-the denounced and small party, as he said, to which he belonged: and concluded with a handsome peroration invoking blessings upon his country.

That we did not agree with all Mr. Calhoun said, is true; but it is equally true that the whole speech left the most favorable impression on our minds.