[37] “It used to be a remark often made by Chief Justice Lumpkin, who was a man himself of wonderful genius, profound learning, and the first of his State, that Webster was always foremost amongst those with whom he acted on any question, and that even in books of selected pieces, whenever selections were made from Webster, these were the best in the book.” A. H. Stephens, War between the States, vol. i. 336.
[38] Ransy Sniffles is a character in Georgia Scenes, who has long been a proverb in the south for one who habitually provokes personal encounters among his neighbors.
[39] See infra, p. 436.
[40] See what he said February 20, 1860, in the United States senate, to Clark, repeating the charge, as reported in the “Globe.”
[41] W. Pinkney Starke, Account of Calhoun’s Early Life, Calhoun Correspondence, 69.
[42] The inscription on her tombstone states—so I have been informed—that she died in May, 1802. In a short while afterwards he put the mother of his future wife in her place and bestowed on her the highest filial love.
[43] W. Pinkney Starke, Account of Calhoun’s Early Life, Calhoun Correspondence, 78.
[44] Starke’s Account of Calhoun’s Early Life, Calhoun Correspondence, 87.
[45] Life of John C. Calhoun. By Gutasvus M. Pinkney, of the Charleston, S. C., Bar, Charleston, S. C., 1903.
[46] Calhoun Correspondence, 88.