Excerpt from A Letter to the Honourable John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, Robert Y. Hayne, Senator of the United States, George M'duffie, of the House of Representatives of the United States, and James Hamilton, Jr. Arise! For you are in the awful presence of your country. Arise! For the place whereon you stand is holy ground. Arise! For your country is your accuser. - Look up to that venerable, majestic face, not with the bold and haughty bear ing of the self-righteous, but with the humility which becomes a child before the accusing eye of his parent. TO the charge which she brings against you, listen, with reverence and devout attention, not with the scornfulness of the disobedient, or the reckless levity of the ungrateful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.