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[Footnote 36: An eminent jurist and philologist, of French origin, but
for many years a citizen of Philadelphia.]
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=_Charles J. Ingersoll,[37] 1782-1862._=
From the "Historical Sketch" of the War of 1812.
=_118._= CALHOUN CHARACTERIZED
John Caldwell Calhoun was the same slender, erect, and ardent logician,
politician, and sectarian, in the House of Representatives in 1814 that
he is in the Senate of 1847. Speaking with aggressive aspect, flashing
eye, rapid action and enunciation, unadorned argument, eccentricity of
judgment, unbounded love of rule, impatient, precipitate, kind temper,
excellent in colloquial attractions, caressing the young, not courting
rulers; conception, perception, and demonstration quick and clear, with
logical precision arguing paradoxes, and carrying home conviction beyond
rhetorical illustration; his own impressions so intense as to discredit,
scarcely listen to, any other suggestions; well educated and informed.
[Footnote 37: A native of Pennsylvania; long conspicuous in the law,
literature, and political life.]
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=_119._= BATTLE OF CHIPPEWA.
In a fair national trial of the military faculties, courage, activity,
and fortitude, discipline, gunnery, and tactics, for the first time the
palm was awarded by Englishmen to Americans over Englishmen.
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