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Title: The life of John Caldwell Calhoun
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Meigs, William Montgomery, 1852-1929
Subjects: Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
Publisher: New York, The Neale Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fort Hill, compelled Mrs. Calhoun to stay South in general.In 1829 and 1835, she came to the capital with some of thechildren and they occupied a mess, but in most, or all,other years she remained in the South. He was entirely alone during many of the sessions, butlonged for some of the family and wrote his eldest daughteron December 24, 1837, when the holiday season probablyturned his thoughts to home, that she and some others of thefamily must come on in the spring and have our old familyMess re-constituted. It was the most pleasant I ever had. »T The following general authorities may be e.xaniined in regard toCalhouns religious views: W. L. Millers Calhoun as a Lawyer, etc.,Vol. XI, Green Rag, pp. 329, 330: Col. Starkes Sketch in Cor-respondence, pp. 76, jy: Biographical Sketch printed in the Charles-ton Mercury of May 10, 1831, from the United States Telegraph; Private Life, by Mary Bates, ut supra, pp. 26, 27: Oliver Dyers GreatSenators, etc., p. 187: Gaillard Hunts Life, p. 38.
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Portrait of Mrs. Thomas (j. ClemsonVol. II, p. 374 PERSONALITY OF CALHOUN 105 In later years, when this daughter Anna Maria had grownold enough, she seems to have always come with him untilher marriage. She was ever a companion to him and con-fidante and probably his favorite child. The genius of poli-tics was in her, as can be easily seen from the fathers manyletters to her, and a New England observer, by no means pre-disposed to admire, wrote that he had rarely met a lady soskilful in political discussion as was Miss Calhoun, ... Iwell remember the clearness with which she presented theSouthern view of the situation, and the ingenuity with whichshe parried such objections as I was able to present. Thefashionable ladies of the South had received the education ofpolitical thought and discussion to a degree unknown amongtheir sisters of the North. ^^ The mess, which was the resort of so many public menof that day in Washington, was but a dreary boarding-house,and doubtless many a disti

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