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.
* 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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