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to Wilson Lumpkin

Here, Calhoun concurs with Lumpkin's views on nullification, the Union, and the differences between [the] North and the South. "The question between the North & South is ... a mere question of power. The pretext of bettering the condition of the...

GLC06317

to S.L. Gouverneur

Vice President Calhoun wrote this letter after his falling out with President Andrew Jackson over Jackson's pursuit of the Seminole Indians into Florida during the first Seminole War. Discusses the Seminole Affair and questions a recently published...

GLC01118

[Two senate motions] [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two motions, one submitted by John C. Calhoun and one by John Norvell. Calhoun's resolution is well-known for establishing the orthodox state rights position. In his resolution, Norvell, the Democratic-Republican Senator from Michigan, agrees with...

GLC00267.021

In the Senate of the United States. December 27, 1837. Mr. Calhoun submitted the following motion for consideration.

25th Congress, 2d session, no. 47. Calhoun's famous resolution establishing the orthodox state rights position. "Resolved, That in delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the Federal Government, the States retained, severally, the...

GLC00267.021.01

Address of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, in the Senate of the United States, on the subject of slavery.

Title page missing. Appears to have been removed from a larger volume. Calhoun's speech was read for him by James Mason, 4 March 1850. Argues that the power of legislating over California "is vested in Congress, and not, as is assumed, in the...

GLC00267.376

to R. S. Garnett

Asks for a copy of a letter to Andrew Jackson, as well as a contract. Dated 12 February without a year, but probably written before 1825 as Secretary of War. Recipient's name is difficult to fully read.

GLC02504.06

to William McPherson

Secretary of State Calhoun asks U.S. Attorney for the District of Missouri McPherson that execution of convicted murderers John McDaniel and Joseph Brown be stayed. He adds "It is not... designed, by this interference, to create any hope of the...

GLC03019

[Appointment of David Vinton to West Point]

Document signed by Calhoun as Secretary of War in the Monroe Administration. Official document appoints David Hammond Vinton of Providence, Rhode Island, as a cadet at West Point. Asks him to notify the Department of War of his acceptance or non...

GLC03496

to Gilbert C. Rice

Calhoun, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, writes to Rice at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Cannot furnish Rice with requested documents (a speech he delivered in Senate and a letter by "Hammond"). Argues that neither the Whigs nor the Democrats have...

GLC03193

to Ferris Pell [copy]

Copy of a letter from Calhoun to Pell discussing the case "of the claims of the state of New York against the United States, for disbursements on account of Militia in the late War," referring to the War of 1812. Written from the Department of War...

GLC06313.04.061

to William Grayson

Recommends a friend, Elias Brown, for the post of clerk of the court for Carroll County, [Maryland]. Informs that the Senate has the Exchequer scheme under consideration. Says that the Clay Whigs (Henry Clay) are against it. Mentions that they are...

GLC04995

to David Hubbard

Written by Calhoun in blue ink, concerning his support for (and failure to get) a rail route from Georgia to the west, instead of through Ohio. He concludes that southern rail routes will unite the slaveholding states and change commercial and...

GLC02320.01

to Richard Graham and Joseph Philips

Secretary of State Calhoun denies an appropriation request because he did not receive a detailed estimate of expenses. Indicates that he will attempt to have the senate increase the appropriation but advises them to keep their disbursements to the...

GLC02146.17