men had fallen, the rest made their escape.  Returning three days after to bury their dead, they found upon the field the bodies of twenty-three Indian warriors.  At another time, as his son used to relate, he had a very long combat with a chief noted for the certainty of his aim,—­the Indian behind a tree, the white man behind a fallen log.  Four times the wily Calhoun drew the Indian’s fire by elevating his hat upon his ramrod.  The chief, at last, could not refrain from looking to see the effect of his shot; when one of his shoulders was slightly exposed.  On the instant, the white man’s rifle sent a ball through it; the chief fled into the forest, and Patrick Calhoun. bore off as a trophy of the fight his own hat pierced with four bullets.

This Patrick Calhoun illustrates well the North-of-Ireland character; one peculiarity of which is the possession of will disproportioned to intellect.  Hence a man of this race frequently appears to striking advantage in scenes which demand chiefly an exercise of will; while in other spheres, which make larger demands upon the understanding, the same man may be simply mischievous.  We see this in the case of Andrew Jackson, who at New Orleans was glorious; at Washington almost wholly pernicious; and in the case of Andrew Johnson, who was eminently useful to his country in 1861, but obstructive and perilous to it in 1866.  For these Scotch-Irishmen, though they are usually very honest men, and often right in their opinions, are an uninstructable race, who stick to a prejudice as tenaciously as to a principle, and really suppose they are battling for right and truth, when they are only wreaking a private vengeance or aiming at a personal advantage.  Patrick Calhoun was the most radical of Democrats; one of your despisers of conventionality; an enemy of lawyers, thinking the common sense of mankind competent to decide what is right without their aid; a particular opponent of the arrogant pretensions of the low-country aristocrats.  When the up-country people began to claim a voice in the government, long since due to their numbers, the planters, of course, opposed their demand.  To establish their right to vote, Patrick Calhoun and a party of his neighbors, armed with rifles, marched across the State to within twenty-three miles of Charleston, and there voted in defiance of the plantation lords.  Events like this led to the admission of members from the up-country; and Patrick Calhoun was the first to represent that section in the Legislature.  It was entirely characteristic of him to vote against the adoption of the Federal Constitution, on the ground that it authorized other people to tax Carolinians; which he said was taxation without’ representation.  That was just like a narrow, cranky, opinionative, unmanageable Calhoun.