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this same Bermuda grass has about captured all of the fine 

 bottom land on the place. He also first introduced the hill- 

 side ditches. I remember when I was quite a boy, seeing him 

 superintending, surveying and staking off these graded 

 ditches, and many times have I seen him with his eldest 

 daughter, Miss Anna Mariah, walking together through the 

 fields and meadows of Fort Hill. 



Mr. Calhoun was ever pleased to receive and entertain his 

 neighbor farmers and discuss with them the agricultural inter- 

 ests of the country, and it made no difference whether they 

 wore broad cloth or homespun geans, all received the same 

 kindness and attention. His most earnest friends were his 

 nearest neighbors, and those who were best acquainted with 

 his spotless character. No state ever held more confidence in 

 her representative than did South Carolina in Mr. Calhoun, nor 

 did the South ever have a better and truer friend ; he seemed 

 to possess, to an eminent degree, all of the elements that 

 belong to true human greatness ; though brilliant and pro- 

 found beyond other men of his day, he was simple and unpre- 

 tentious in manner, affable.and conservative, yet as firm as the 

 rocks of Gibraltar in his convictions ; possessed of a Christian 

 spirit, without a shade of fanaticism, fully temperate, though 

 not a total abstinent, gentle and kind in disposition, but with 

 the heart of a lion when aroused by ads of aggression and 

 injustice ; as to the depth of his great mind there seemed no 

 bottom and his foresight of coming events is still the subject 

 of remark and wonder to the present day. 



John Caldwell Calhoun was born in Abbeville District, 

 South Carolina, in March, 1792; his family were Irish on both 

 sides. His father, Patrick, was born in Donnegal, Ireland, and 

 landed with his parents in Pennsylvania when but a child. The 



