| 1. | John C. Calhoun in the U.S. Capitol | | | Senator from South Carolina, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, twice Vice President. Life and times, gallery, political theory, links.
xroads.virginia.edu |
| 2. | John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures | | | Delivered on March 4, 1850, this is among his most famous speeches. Too ill to deliver it himself, it was read by another senator. Calhoun, so ill he had to be helped out of the Senate Chamber after the speech, died on March 31, 1850.
www.project21.org |
| 3. | Johnc. Calhoun's Speech Against the Compromise | | | The famous South Carolinian (1782-1850) made his last Senate speech during the course of the great debate over the Compromise of 1850, a complicated and controversial set of resolutions sponsored by Henry Clay (1777-1852) of Kentucky.
rs6.loc.gov |
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