He was a son of John C. Calhoun, the statesman?--A. He
was a son of Mr. John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina.

Q. You are his grandson, then?
--A. Yes, sir; I am his grandson. My father was Col. Andrew
P. Calhoun. I was reared in South Carolina. In 1854 my father
removed his residence from his plantations in Alabama to Fort
Hill, South Carolina, near Pendleton, where I was raised. I
have been identified with the agricultural interest of the
South from my earliest recollections, and have been a
practical cotton planter myself since the war, giving my own
personal attention to my interests since 1869.

Q. When did you remove from South Carolina?
--A. I removed from South Carolina to Chicot County,
Arkansas, in 1869.

Q. Until 1869 you had been a resident of South Carolina?
--A. Yes, sir.

Q. And of course very familiar with the condition of things
on the Atlantic coast. Since that time you have been in the
Mississippi Valley?
--A. Yes, sir; my experience as a cotton planter and with
the laborers of the South is confirmed, I may say, almost
entirely to the Mississippi Valley, for I left South
Carolina so soon after the war that things had hardly shaped
themselves there so that I could form an accurate estimate
of the labor or the condition of affairs in South Carolina
or on the Atlantic coast.

The CHAIRMAN. Not having had a personal acquaintance with
Mr. Calhoun, and learning of his rare opportunities to give
valuable information to the committee, and of his presence
in the city, I addressed him a letter, calling attention to
the subject-matter upon which we should like information,
and which I had reason to think he could give us better than
almost any one else, indicating certain questions which I
would like to have him prepared to answer, and receiving a
courteous reply, expressing a willingness to oblige the
committee, I have called him before the committee, and will
now read the questions:--

1st. What is the condition of the laborers in your
section?

2d. Under what system are the laborers in your section
employed?

3d. When hired for wages what is paid?

4th. What division is made between labor and capital of
their joint production when you work on shares?

5th. When you rent what div