The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . JOHN C. CALHOUN, the greatstatesman of South Carolina, wasthe exponent of nullification andthose principles which led event-ually to secession and civil , a man of the highestintegrity, socially a man of mostwinning character, he carried totheir extreme logical consequencescertain views of the rights ofthe Southern States which couldnot be realized without violentresults. He represented the cen-trifugal force in the development of American politicalinstitutions. John Caldwell Calhoun was of Scotch
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . JOHN C. CALHOUN, the greatstatesman of South Carolina, wasthe exponent of nullification andthose principles which led event-ually to secession and civil , a man of the highestintegrity, socially a man of mostwinning character, he carried totheir extreme logical consequencescertain views of the rights ofthe Southern States which couldnot be realized without violentresults. He represented the cen-trifugal force in the development of American politicalinstitutions. John Caldwell Calhoun was of Scotch-Irish descent. Hisfather, Patrick Calhoun, had been brought to America in1733, when but six years old; and after a short sojourn inWestern Pennsylvania and Virginia, had been taken to Abbe-ville county, on the Cherokee frontier, in the northern part ofSouth Carolina. During the Revolution he was an activeWhig. His son John was born on the 18th of March, his nineteenth year he began his preparation for college,studying with his brother-in-law, Rev. Dr. Waddel; and in1802
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