Source: John Caldwell Calhoun, The Works of John C. Calhoun: Reports and Public Letters, ed. Richard K. Crallé (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), 60–62, 65–69, 73–74, 75–76, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_John_C_Calhoun_Reports_and/I2njyLyfTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=0. … The
Source: Speech of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, on the Oregon Bill, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 27, 1848 (Washington, DC: Towers, 1848), https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002087601150&view=1up&seq=3&skin=2021. Now, let
Source: John C. Calhoun, Speeches of John C. Calhoun: delivered in the Congress of the United States from 1811 to the present time (New York: Harper’s and Brothers, 1843), 222–226,
Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun, vol. 5: Reports and Public Letters of John C. Calhoun, ed. Richard K. Crallé (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), 333–339; available
Source: John C. Calhoun, Speeches of John C. Calhoun: delivered in the Congress of the United States from 1811 to the present time (New York: Harper’s and Brothers, 1843), 222–226,
Source: Speech of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, on the Oregon Bill, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, June 27, 1848, (Washington, D.C.: Towers printer, 1848), https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002087601150;view=1up;seq=1. .
John C. Calhoun articulated his vision of federalism in the nullification doctrine outlined in the South Carolina Exposition.
I have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this
. . . To perfect society, it is necessary to develop the faculties, intellectual and moral, with which man is endowed. But the main spring to their development, and, through
“RESOLVED, That to conquer Mexico and to hold it, either as a province or to incorporate it into the Union, would be inconsistent with the avowed object for which the war
