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Dick Harlow and Tom Calhoun, Post Correspondent, come by. How happy the follows look. Dick takes another puff on his cigar. "Yes, the boys are in top shape." A few minutes before ten. The first car backs in. Baltimore, here they come
...whispered staunchly: "I hope and trust to meet you all in Heaven, both white and black. . . ." But he gave no sign that he repented of having said, not long before, that he only regretted he had not been able to shoot Henry Clay and hang John C. Calhoun...
...CALHOUN...
...long interim between 1817 and the present, the art of clocution has declined far below the standard of men like Webster, Clay, Douglas, or Calhoun. In this descent toward mediocrity, the oratory prizes have stood out against the current like rocks in a stream, steadily maintaining their solid basis. They were washed over the blasts of rhetoric, by stultified, memorized arguments, but they remained fixed. Now, nurtured by Professor Packard's courses, and with the tremendous flowering of radio, which is based entirely on ear-appeal rather than the flourishing of arms, the true clocution which the prizes were founded...
...CALHOUN...