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

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John C. Calhoun, one of the great intellectual architects of Southern distinctiveness or Southern sectionalism, and certainly of Southern States' Rights doctrine, was very much an American nationalist, at least in the early parts of his career.

约翰·卡胡恩,最重要的南方特性学,或南方地方主义知识体系建构者之一,当然也参与了南方各州的权利学说的构建,他是一个典型的美国民族主义者,至少在他职业生涯的早期是

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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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