But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.
Calhoun supported state nullification of federal laws and gave a speech to Congress titled “Slavery as a Positive Good.”
Invoking Wilberforce allows conservatives like DeMint to pretend that he, not Calhoun, is their moral lodestar and inspiration.
In a speech on the Senate floor in 1837, Calhoun defended slavery as a “positive good” and not a “necessary evil.”
The "Calhoun Option" is to do whatever possible to stop progress, right here, right now.
In this Clay was conspicuous, and Webster and Calhoun were his sympathetic allies.
The free-trade party was led by Daniel Webster, and the tariff party by Calhoun.
Mr. Calhoun handed her to a chair, where she began to use her languid but effective fan.
It was a risky guess to make on such evidence as Calhoun considered he had, but no other guess was possible.
Calhoun nodded politely and went back to what he'd been doing before she appeared.
