He decided to make it on March seventh, just three days after Calhoun's speech was read to the Senate.

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The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

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If all these things were not done,Calhoun said, then it would be better to separate, to part in peace.

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One newspaper in Calhoun's state of South Carolina said: "The senator's death is best for the country and his own honor.

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At the party's other extreme were the Democrats of the South, led by John C.Calhoun of South Carolina.

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Calhoun said the North was responsible for all this, because it had destroyed the political balance between the two parts of the country.

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When Calhoun finished his speech to the Senate, southern lawmakers crowded around the old man, congratulating him.

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He did so for two reasons: Calhoun believed that Texas should be part of the United States.

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On Sunday,March third, it was announced that Calhoun would speak in the Senate the next day.

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And Tyler - a Whig - hoped that Calhoun might be able to get him nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

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Calhoun said that for a long time he had believed that the dispute over slavery -- if not settled -- would end in disunion.

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President Tyler named John C. Calhoun - a Democrat - as his new secretary of state.

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He denounced Calhoun's demands for a political balance between the North and South.

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Then Calhoun listed the things the North must do to satisfy the South.

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Senator John C.Calhoun said it was a bad defeat for the South.

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And,said Calhoun, it had viciously attacked the southern institution of slavery.

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The committee agreed, and Calhoun wrote most of the declaration himself.

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Calhoun said it was clear now to everyone that the Union was breaking apart, that the ties that had held the North and South together were breaking,one by one.

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Seward then criticized another senator John C.Calhoun of South Carolina.

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3 of the 5 men in Jackson's cabinet supported Calhoun.

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But Calhoun's supporters in the Senate defeated Van Buren's nomination.

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Webster was sixty-eight years old, as old as Calhoun.

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Calhoun had been too ill to hear Clay's speech.

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For years, Calhoun was the voice of the South.

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"The South will know what to do," said Calhoun.

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The problem was Vice President John C. Calhoun.

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Calhoun was too weak to read his speech.

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Calhoun would have blocked a settlement."

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The Senate was crowded when Calhoun entered.

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