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Calhoun's Death

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Day
10
Month
February
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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An el letter ÏTOva Mr. II. M. T. Ilimter, a Virginia Senator, gives some interesting facts concernlng Mr. Calhouh's last moment s, and the views at thattimc of the Southern magnates. "Mr. Calhoon's deatli," wrote Mr. Munter, "was eminently siriiple, calm and unaffected, - no display or pretensión, nothing for stage effect. Ile knew tliat his mortal siekness was upon him, but he dicl not expect to die so soon. The evening bef ore his death he had his mail read to liini, romuienleil on some of the letters, and directed liis son to clear up his table, as he wíuj wout every niglit. Ia I the night, ln-ti he found he was dying, he directed his sou to ]aek up his papers and watch, and td ghe his pencü to his sou Andiew. Wlieu speecli left him lic still sliowwl consciousness by signs; and, beckoniog to lus son, aqueezcii iiis hánd ;md expirëd without pain :ind wiiiiout fear. Ifc had alwaya saiil lome picvinusly aiul to ütlicrs tiirough his üickljess Uiat. lic had Da apprehensions of death; that it was an event in rclatiou to whicn lic feit that he had no tight to entertain a vish. He was B man Of lew nuotations, but one which he often used to me was the same Providencie on the fatal as the atal hour.' He wasnot cnnsiillt d as to liis hirtli, nor did he believe that his wishes ought to weili or even exist as to his (lcalh: sucli I supposeto have been liis ïneaninjf. He had a greater faith in his alistraetions, one and all, thaii any other man I ever saw, andthiswaa liis alistraetion (as I think) abont death."

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