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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 8 (search)
what was termed the National in contradistinction to the Radical or strict-construction theory of the nature and functions of our Federal Government, found in Mr. Calhoun and his personal adherents their most thorough-going champious: and South Carolina was, about 1820, the arena of a stirring conflict between her National school of politicians, headed by Calhoun and McDuffie, and the Radicals, whose chief was William H. Crawford, of Georgia. Repeated duels between Mr. McDuffie and Colonel William Cuming, of Georgia, in one of which McDuffie was severely wounded, were among the incidents of this controversy. Yet but few years elapsed before Mr. Calhoun and his trusty henchman, McDuffie, appeared in the novel character of champions of State rights, and relentless antagonists of Protection, and all the National projects they had hitherto supported! Mr. Calhoun attempted, some years afterward, to reconcile this flagrant inconsistency; but it was like arguing the seal off the bond --a
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)
ciliation in the Senate, 373; introduces his Compromise, 376-7; reflections on its nature, 378 to 81 ; 883; 402; 403; presides over the Kentucky Convention, 495; 555; offers a resolution in the House, 568. Croghan, Col. St. George, (Rebel,) killed, 526. cross-Lanes, Va., Federals defeated at, 525. Cruse, David, a Missouri slaveholder, slain, 286. Cuba, 268 to 272; its acquisition demanded by the Democratic Convention of 1860, 278. Cumberland, U. S. Frigate, at Norfolk, 478. Cuming, Col. Wm., of Ga., 91. Curtin, Gov. Andrew G., of Pa., elected, 326. Curtis, Geo.W., suppressed at Philadelphia, 367. Curtis, Judge B. R., 252; on Dred Scott, 260-3. Cushing, Caleb, 146; chosen President of the Charleston Convention, 309; resigns the chair, 318; President of the Seceders' Convention, 318; sent to Charleston by Buchanan, 409. Cuyler, Theodore, speech at the Philadelphia Peace meeting, 365; welcomes President Lincoln, 419. D. Dakotah Territory, organizati