A review of Merrile D Peterson’s The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun #USHistory #TheGreatTriumvirate #DanielWebster #HenryClay #JohnCCalhoun
History Book Reviews: TWO STATESMEN AND A JACKASS jeremyshistoryreviews.blogspot.com/2012/10/two-...
A vice pres. first resigned on #ThisDayInHistory in 1832, when #JohnCCalhoun quit to take a seat in the Senate and defend #slavery; viz., "there never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not... live on the labor of the other".
South Carolinians protesting tariffs 👀👀👀 #TariffOfAbominations #AndrewJackson #JohnCCalhoun #TariffOf1828 #HistoryRepeating #USHistory
John C. Calhoun is rolling over in his grave trying, loving all of this segregationist bullshit and hating these wack-ass tariffs.
I hate these policies, but good lord I love thinking about that monster being miserable.
#doesnthelp #johnccalhoun #tariff #tariffofabominations
