John Calhoun's Speech...Summarized
- says that slavery will end up in disunion
- says that he called upon the political parties to approach this, but it was not successful
- says that the union is being threatened and harmed
- all of these show the imbalance that will result in the house and Senate
- discontent among all the southern states
- caused by the agitation of the slavery question
- this leads to the southern belief that they couldn't safely/honorably, remain in the Union
- North was going to gain 5 free states whereas the south got 0 slave states in the same time frame
- North also attracted many of the immigrants that came to the U.S because it was easier to find jobs in the North than the South
- Calhoun thinks that the tariffs further divide the North and South since they favor the North
- Calhoun says that he is afraid that all of the above reasons will lead to sectionalism, and that the South will be forced into abolition or will secede
- Calhoun said that the only way to fix the southern discontent was by doing justice, and satisfying the South
- giving the south equal representation and territory
- will keep the fundamental social and economic structure of slavery
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