It is true Tyler has offered me again to-day the portfolio of secretary of state.

Shall I take it?
If I do, it means that I am employed by this administration to secure the admission of Texas.

Can you believe me when I tell you that my ambition is for it all--_all_, every foot of new land, west to the Pacific, that we can get, slave _or_ free?
Can you believe John Calhoun, pro-slavery advocate and orator all his life, when he says that he believes he is an humble instrument destined, with God's aid, and through the use of such instruments as our human society affords, to build, _not_ a wider slave country, but a wider America ?" "It would be worth the fight of a few years more, Calhoun," gravely answered his old friend.

"I admit I had not dreamed this of you." "History will not write it of me, perhaps," went on my chief.

"But you tell me to fight, and now I shall fight, and in my own way.