Saturday, February 06, 2021

Notes regarding John C. Calhoun

As they say, the victor gets to write the history! Anybody, who believes that the American Civil War was about slavery, is a fool!

"... In the late 1820s, his views changed radically, and he became a leading proponent of states' rightslimited governmentnullification, and opposition to high tariffs. He saw Northern acceptance of those policies as a condition of the South remaining in the Union. His beliefs and warnings heavily influenced the South's secession from the Union in 1860–1861. ..."

John C. Calhoun - Wikipedia



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