Adams And Calhoun

Author : William F. Hartford
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643363950

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Adams and Calhoun by William F. Hartford Pdf

Examines the evolving lives of two men who were crucial political figures in the consequential decades prior to the Civil War Although neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political figures of the era to shape the intersectional tensions that produced the conflict. William F. Hartford examines the lives of Adams and Calhoun as a prism through which to view the developing sectional conflict. While both men came of age as strong nationalists, their views, like those of the nation, diverged by the 1830s, largely over the issue of slavery. Hartford examines the two men's responses to issues of nationalism and empire, sectionalism and nullification, slavery and antislavery, party and politics, and also the expansion of slavery. He offers fresh insights into the sectional conflict that also accounts for the role of personal idiosyncrasy and interpersonal relationships in the coming of the Civil War.

Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Vice-Presidents
ISBN : LCCN:2012555845

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John Quincy Adams Letter by John Quincy Adams Pdf

Adams notifies John C. Calhoun of Calhoun's election to the vice presidency of the United States. Calhoun was vice president under Adams and Andrew Jackson 1825-1832. Text handwritten by unknown clerk; signed by Adams.

Author : John Niven
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807118583

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John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union by John Niven Pdf

John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) was one of the prominent figure of American politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. The son of a slaveholding South Carolina family, he served in the federal government in various capacities—as senator from his home state, as secretary of war and secretary of state, and as vice-president in the administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Calhoun was a staunch supporter of the interests of his state and region. His battle from tariff reform, aimed at alleviating the economic problems of the southern states, eventually led him to formulate his famous nullification doctrine, which asserted the right of states to declare federal laws null and void within their own boundaries. In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost half a century, John Niven skillfully presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Deftly blending Calhoun’s public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a far more complex human being than previous historians have thought. Rather than history’s image of an assured, self-confident Calhoun, Niven reveals a figure who was in many ways insecure and defensive. Niven maintains that the War of 1812, which Calhoun helped instigate and which nearly resulted in the nation’s ruin, made a lasting impression on Calhoun’s mind and personality. From that point until the end of his life, he sought security first from the western Indians and the British while he was secretary of war, then from northern exploitation of southern wealth through what he regarded as manipulation of public policy while he was vice-president and a senator. He worked tirelessly to further the South’s slave-plantation system of economic and social values. He sought protection for a region that he freely admitted was low in population and poor in material resources, and he defended a position that he knew was morally inferior. Niven portrays Calhoun as a driven, tragic figure whose ambitions and personal desires to achieve leadership and compensate for a lack of inner assurance were often thwarted. The life he made for himself, the peace he felt on his plantation with his dependent retainers, and the agricultural pursuits that represented to him and his neighbors stability in a rapidly changing environment were beyond price. Calhoun sought to resist any menace to this way of life with all the force of his character and intellect. Yet in the end Calhoun’s headstrong allegiance to his region helped to destroy the very culture he sought to preserve and disrupted the Union he had hoped to keep whole. Niven’s masterful retelling of Calhoun’s eventful life is a model biography.

Author : Lynn Hudson Parsons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442202887

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John Quincy Adams by Lynn Hudson Parsons Pdf

He was born in 1767, a subject of the British Empire, and died in 1848, a citizen of the United States and a member of Congress in company with Abraham Lincoln. In his dramatic career he had known George Washington and Benjamiin Franklin, La Fayette of France, Alexander I of Russia, and Castlereagh of Great Britain. He had both collaborated and quarrelled with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. In his lifetime Americans had fought for and established their independence, adopted a Constitution, fought two wars with Great Britain and one with Mexico. They had expanded south to the Rio Grande and west to the Pacific. At the time of his death, Adams was seen as a living connection between the present and past of the young republic and his passing severed one of the nation's last ties with its founding generation. As son of the second president of the United States, father of the minister to the Court of St. James, and grandfather to author Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams was part of an American dynasty. In his own career as secretary of state, President, senator, and congressman, Adams was as an actor in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century. In this concise biography, Lynn Hudson Parsons masterfully chronicles the life of one of America's most absorbing figures. From the day in 1778 when, as a boy, he accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France, to his last years as an eloquent , cantankerous opponent of this country's foreign and domestic policies, Adams was rarely detached from public affairs. And yet, this biography reveals Adams as a man never truly at home anywhere—in Washington he was stubborn and reclusive, in Europe he was a phlegmatic ideologue, a bulldog among spaniels. His story parallels America's own.

Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : UOM:39015027040719

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Congressional Reminiscences by John Wentworth Pdf

Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385474970

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Congressional Reminiscences. Adams, Benton, Calhoun, Clay, and Webster by John Wentworth Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Mary W. M. Hargreaves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011519991

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The Presidency of John Quincy Adams by Mary W. M. Hargreaves Pdf

Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his administration as a failure, founded upon "bargain and corruption" and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote strong Pan-American relationships, and the enactment of the "tariff of abominations." Some analysts have even argued that it generated the sectionalism which terminated the "Era of Good Feelings." Mary Hargreaves contends, instead, that the basic effort of Adams's presidency was to harmonize divergent sectional interests. To ignore the Adams administration's commitment to nationalism, she argues, is to overlook a fundamental stage in the establishment of the federal government as guardian of the general interest. The volume contains new information on the development of United States commercial policy, the nation's early relationships with Latin America, and difficulties of local and regional adjustment to the growth of the national economy. It will be of keen interest to all students of the economic and political history of the early national period.

Author : John Caldwell Calhoun,Clyde Norman Wilson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872494187

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The Papers of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun,Clyde Norman Wilson Pdf

The first portion of Calhoun's service as U.S. Secretary of State.

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385542548

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Heirs of the Founders by H. W. Brands Pdf

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, "the immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.

Author : Charles Maurice Wiltse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Politicians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010363666

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John C. Calhoun: Nationalist, 1782-1828 by Charles Maurice Wiltse Pdf

Author : Robert Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Calhoun Family
ISBN : 0465096441

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Calhoun by Robert Elder Pdf

John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was during his time as Jackson's vice president that he crafted his famous doctrine of "state interposition," which laid the groundwork for the south to secede from the union -- and arguably set the nation on course for civil war. Other accounts of Calhoun have portrayed him as a backward-looking traditionalist -- he was, after all, an outspoken apologist for slavery, which he defended as a "positive good." But he was also an extremely complex thinker, and thoroughly engaged in the modern world. He espoused many ideas that resonate strongly with popular currents today: an impatience for the spectacle and shallowness of politics, a concern about the alliance between wealth and power in government, and a skepticism about the United States' ability to spread its style of democracy throughout the world. Calhoun has catapulted back into the public eye in recent years, as the tensions he navigated and inflamed in his own time have surfaced once again. In 2015, a monument to him in Charleston, South Carolina became a flashpoint after a white supremacist murdered nine African-Americans in a nearby church. And numerous commentators have since argued that Calhoun's retrograde ideas are at the root of the modern GOP's problems with race. Bringing together Calhoun's life, his intellectual contributions -- both good and bad -- and his legacy, Robert Elder's book is a revelatory reconsideration of the antebellum South we thought we knew.

Author : United States. Department of State,John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1828*
Category : Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818
ISBN : OCLC:79026388

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Letter of John Quincy Adams, in Explanation and Vindication of Gen. Jackson's Invasion and Occupation of Florida, and the Execution of Arbuthnot and Armbrister by United States. Department of State,John Quincy Adams Pdf

Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044035132

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Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams by Josiah Quincy Pdf

This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.

Author : John Torrey Morse
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385314085

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John Quincy Adams by John Torrey Morse Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421423876

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John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850 by Peter Charles Hoffer Pdf

A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.