Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Jefferson Davis to John C. Calhoun, July 7, 1824

Lexington, July 7th 1824.        
Transylvania Univer

The commission of Cadet granted the undersigned March 11th, and remitted to Natchez, on account of my absence was forwarded here. I accept it.

Am not able to go on before Sept. for reasons I will explain to the superintendent on my arrival.

Yours &c
Jefferson Davis.
J. C. Calhoun.
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* Calhoun, John Caldwell (1782-1850), an American statesman of the States-rights school, was born of Scotch descent, in Abbeville district, S. C., March 18, 1872; was graduated from Yale College in 1804; studied law in Litchfield, Conn., and in an office in Charleston, S. C., and was admitted to the bar in 1807. He was a member of the South Carolina general assembly 1808-1809 and of the national House of Representatives from March 4, 1811, to March 3, 1817; was Secretary of War from December 10, 1817, to March 3, 1825; was Vice President of the United States from March 4, 1825, to December 28, 1832; U. S. Senator from December 12, 1832, to March 3, 1843, and from November 26, 1845, to March 31, 1850; Secretary of State from April 1, 1844, to March 6, 1845. He died in Washington, D. C., March 31, 1850. Calhoun was the author of the South Carolina doctrine of nullification, which conceded to each State the right to nullify any United States law which the State regarded as unconstitutional. He proposed to check the anti-slavery movement by preventing Northern commerce from entering Southern ports and preferred a dissolution of the Union to a submission to the will of the North with regard to slavery. Consult John C. Calhoun, by Gaillard Hunt, 1 Vol., 335 pp., Philadelphia, 1908, and W. M. Meigs, Life of John C. Calhoun, 2 vols., 934 Pp., New York, 1917.

SOURCE: Dunbar Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 1

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