...in saying it—guarded itself with the strictest jealousy from any such baleful contaminations. But what a picture of horror rose before its eyes as it contemplated the freeing of the slaves. John C. Calhoun had drawn that picture in vivid colors which now, recalling the days of carpet-bag and negro ascendency, seems like a prophet's vision. If I owned the four million of slaves in the South, said Robe...