Excerpt from John Crisis Calhoun
In this book I endeavor to show not only the chief events in the political career of John C. Calhoun, but his complete identification with two opposing popular movements: - how he helped to form a broad national sentiment, the part he played in the struggle in his state against that sentiment, and his leadership of the triumphant sectional sentiment. I have shown that, as he was a popular leader, he was dominated by popular forces and that his power lay in his correct interpretation of the will of his people. To study his public life, therefore, is to study the course of public opinion in the South during a momentous period, when it formed into a great movement to resist a greater movement.
I have sketched his personal characteristics and his private life, which was beautiful in its simplicity and purity, and have aimed to show that his personal ambition was always subordinated to the cause with which he was identified. It is fortunate for the credit of our history that the leadership fell to such as he.
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