. The great American book of biography . imate sourceof power? The people, an-swered Calhoun. Dr. Dwightcombated this opinion ; Calhounreplied ; and the whole hour ofrecitation was consumed in thedebate. Dr. Dwight was somuch struck with the ability dis-played by the student that heremarked to a friend that Cal-houn had talent enough to be aPresident of the United did not foresee that Cal-houn would imbibe ideas which,logically carried out, would leaveno United States in existence to require a President. After two years in the South Carolina Legislature, Calhoun was elected toCongres
. The great American book of biography . imate sourceof power? The people, an-swered Calhoun. Dr. Dwightcombated this opinion ; Calhounreplied ; and the whole hour ofrecitation was consumed in thedebate. Dr. Dwight was somuch struck with the ability dis-played by the student that heremarked to a friend that Cal-houn had talent enough to be aPresident of the United did not foresee that Cal-houn would imbibe ideas which,logically carried out, would leaveno United States in existence to require a President. After two years in the South Carolina Legislature, Calhoun was elected toCongress in 1810, where he served until 1817, when he became Secretary ofWar under President Monroe. In 1824 he was elected Vice-President, underJohn Quincy Adams, and again in 1828, when Andrew Jackson was electedPresident. In 1832 he resigned the Vice-Presidency to become Senator fromSouth Carolina, and remained in the Senate during nearly all the remainder ofhis life. In 182S Congress passed a tariff bill by which the protective duties were. JAMES MONROE. THE NULLIFICATION DEBATE. ■ 209 considerably increased. This bill was bitterly opposed in the South, where itwas styled the Tariff of Abominations ; and on its passage Calhoun prepareda most remarkable paper, called the South Carolina Exposition, in which hemaintained that the Constitution authorized Congress to levy tariff taxes onlyfor revenue ; that protective taxes were therefore unconstitutional ; and that aState had the right and power to declare an unconstitutional law null and void,and to forbid its execution in that State. It was the purpose of the people ofSouth Carolina to agitate for the repeal of the obnoxious law ; and, in casetheir efforts should fail, to resort to the remedy of nullification. This Ex-position, says Parton, was the beginning of our woe,—the baleful <;g fromwhich were hatched nullification, treason, civil war, and the desolation of theSouthern States. It was issued in December, 1828. In
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