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- THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
- JAMES BUCHANAN
- WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
- WILLIAM H. HAYWOOD
- HUGH WHITE
- JOHN Y. MASON
- ABBOTT LAWRENCE
- THOMAS H. BENTON
- SAMUEL D. HUBBARD
- MARTIN VAN BUREN
- ROBERT C. WINTHROP
- ROGER B. TANEY
- JOHN M'LEAN
- DANIEL WEBSTER AND RUFUS CHOAT
- EDWARD A. HANNEGAN
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
- ALBERT GALLATIN
- OREGON AND CANADA, REMARKS ON
- CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL
- EDMUND GAINES
- MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY
- JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
- HENRY CLAY
- RIGHT REV. JOHN HUGHES, CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NEW YORK
- NOTE ON THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE AT WASHINGTON
- ON COMMERCE
- ESSAY ON FREE TRADE, BY THE AUTHORESS
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OREGON
- NOTES ON THE MEXICAN WAR
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
- JAMES BUCHANAN
- WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
- WILLIAM H. HAYWOOD
- HUGH WHITE
- JOHN Y. MASON
- ABBOTT LAWRENCE
- THOMAS H. BENTON
- SAMUEL D. HUBBARD
- MARTIN VAN BUREN
- ROBERT C. WINTHROP
- ROGER B. TANEY
- JOHN M'LEAN
- DANIEL WEBSTER AND RUFUS CHOAT
- EDWARD A. HANNEGAN
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
- ALBERT GALLATIN
- OREGON AND CANADA, REMARKS ON
- CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL
- EDMUND GAINES
- MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY
- JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
- HENRY CLAY
- RIGHT REV. JOHN HUGHES, CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NEW YORK
- NOTE ON THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE AT WASHINGTON
- ON COMMERCE
- ESSAY ON FREE TRADE, BY THE AUTHORESS
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OREGON
- NOTES ON THE MEXICAN WAR
Summary
“A reasoning, high, immortal thing.”
Calhoun is my Statesman. Through good report and through evil report; in all his doctrines, whether upon Slavery, Free Trade, Nullification, Treasury and Currency Systems, active Annexation, or masterly inactivity, I hold myself his avowed and admiring disciple. If this distinguished Statesman could be prevailed upon to visit England, either in a public or in a private capacity, he would command more admiration, and attract more interest than any other man of Europe or of America. The very anomaly of his position, the curious coincidences by which he becomes the representative of interests which, nominally at least, are in contra position to each other, and the skill and determined fidelity with which he unites and guards each several one of these interests; preserving entire the integrity of all; these attributes together compose a character so unique, an attitude so extraordinary as to be unparalleled either in his own or in any other country of the world. To know, to understand, and to appreciate him, it is requisite rapidly to review the measures of which he is the acknowledged expounder and advocate.
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- The Statesmen of America in 1846 , pp. 345 - 421Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009