I think that if the dispensary law were so altered as to give each county the purchase of its liquor by, say, its supervisor, nominated by this primary, the opportunity of graft, now discrediting the administration of the law with many, would be effectually closed. There would then be everywhere a trustworthy official, of their own election, to keep the people advised as to proper prices and cost. It would be to lose all chance of re-election for the official to cheat the public by colluding with the liquor sellers.
[55] Life of John C. Calhoun, 225-229.
[56] Id.
[57] Heyward thus translates: “Reason and good sense express themselves with little art. And when you are seriously intent on saying something, is it necessary to hunt for words?”
[58] Von Holst, John C. Calhoun, 133.
[59] Id. 141.
[60] Von Holst, John C. Calhoun, 148.
[61] As illustrating his anti-tariff progress, see what he says in his letter of July, 1828, to James Monroe, Correspondence, 266; what in that to his relative, Noble, of January, 1829, id. 269, 270; in that to Samuel L. Gouvernour, of February, 1832, id. 310, 311; and what as to benefit from having concentrated opinions in south, in that to his brother-in-law, id. 313, 314.
[62] Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States, Works, vol. i. 392.
[63] Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States, Works, vol. i. 393.