Nov 3, 2001 · The Clay Compromise Measures by John C. Calhoun March 4, 1850 This is among John C. Calhoun's most famous speeches. He was too ill to deliver it himself, so it was read by …

Oct 27, 2009 · John C. Calhoun, a former vice president-turned senator from South Carolina, sought the expansion of slavery into new territories, but in an 1850 speech to the Senate, …

- The famous South Carolinian John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) made his last Senate speech during the course of the great debate over the Compromise of 1850, a complicated and controversial …

John C. Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina, speaking before the Senate, March 4, 1850 I have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not …

The Compromise of 1850 provoked one of the Senate’s most famous debates. In his last speech to the Senate, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina protested the admission of California as a …

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between slave and free states …

The Compromise of 1850 was passed and Calhoun died soon after on March 31, 1850. John C. Calhoun’s speech to the United States Senate against the Compromise of 1850, 4 March …

Manuscript/Mixed Material John C. Calhoun's speech to the United States Senate against the Compromise of 1850, 4 March 1850.

In 1850, Senator Henry Clay sought another compromise to preserve the Union and avoid war. The most famous debate in the history of the Senate ensued between Senators John C. …

John C. Calhoun on the Clay Compromise Measures, U.S. Senate, March 4, 1850 John C. Calhoun, a senator from South Carolina and the preeminent spokesperson for Southern …