It would be difficult to find two other contemporary Americans, of equal distinction, so absolutely contrasted in body, mind, principles, tastes and manners as were Benton and Calhoun. To rub Calhouns naturephysically slender, theorizing, gentlemanlyagainst Bentonsphysically massive, practical, tough to the point of ruthlessnesswas like rubbing the tender skin of an infant against the corrugated hide of a rhinocerous. Indeed, this Roman gladiator who somehow had become embedded in the nineteenth century, this robust and ferocious Christian, had a servant scrape his body daily with the roughest kind of horsehair brush, callousing his skin and toughening his mind for political combat
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