Statesmen of the Old South; Or, From Radicalism to Conservative Revolt
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In this he succeeded and after banishing from the commimity irreconcilables like William Smith and Randall Hunt, he became easily the one great figure — ^the personification of the hotspur state.
Digitized by LjOOQ IC JOHN C CALHOUN 139 Rcgw^g^^the tariff as a settled question, he 1W'.n<^d.iaj832:. to_the^^^ of negro jjaycry,,. The people of his state had never pro- nounced "the institution" an evil ; there were men in Charleston who wrote pamphlets as early as 1803, defending it as a moral and religious arrangement. In Georgia the prevalent idea was that the African slave trade ought not to have been anathematized as piracy in 1819.^ Now that Alabama and Mississippi were requiring slaves in ever-increasing numbers, Virginia had repented of her earlier heresy and the business of raising negroes for the southern market was not frowned upon.* Calhoun saw the full possibilities of the new situation. He would unite the whole South as he had already united the people of South Car- olina.
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