Show PROPHECY John C Calhoun made a speech years ears ago in the senate of the United States the words of o which seem timely now new and prophetic But few of the nations he said have hae been so fortunate as to adopt a wise constitution still fewer have had the wisdom to preserve preserve one It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty Again he said We think we may now Indulge in everything with impunity impunity as if we held our charter by right divine from heaven itself Under these impressions impre ions we wh plunge into war warwe warwe warwe we contract ct heavy debts d we increase the patronage of the executive and we talk of a crusade to force our institutions of ot liberty upon all people There is ie no species of extravagance which our people imagine will endanger their own liberty in any degree Sir the hour is approaching the day of retribution will come It will come as certain as I am m now addressing the senate and when it does come awful will be the reckon reckoning reckoning reckoning ing heavy the responsibility some somewhere somewhere somewhere where |