tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9506140.post7478771774935817252..comments2024-02-15T23:23:12.924-05:00Comments on Elektratig: "Whereas, I Love You"Elektratighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703096671081292287noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9506140.post-61704714031527811882011-02-16T04:41:37.784-05:002011-02-16T04:41:37.784-05:00CW,
I certainly know that Calhoun was an expansiv...CW,<br /><br />I certainly know that Calhoun was an expansive nationalist earlier in his career, but I'm not sure I've ever seen him described as the life of the party. Now I'll have to go hunting around for early-Calhoun descriptions!Elektratighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703096671081292287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9506140.post-20509534845539208382011-02-15T09:43:05.817-05:002011-02-15T09:43:05.817-05:00And yet descriptions of Calhoun before the late 18...And yet descriptions of Calhoun before the late 1820s portray a vibrant, magnetic, youthful personality. John Quincy Adams described him as "above all sectional and factious prejudices more than any other statesman of this Union with whom I have ever acted." Calhoun was also the most fervently nationalist politician of the first quarter of the nineteenth century. One can only conclude that South Carolina's "peculiar interest" crushed Calhoun's national ambitions, and his expansive personality as well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04616106414422271836noreply@blogger.com