Calhoun

[ kal-hoon, kuhl- ]

/ kælˈhun, kəl- /

John Caldwell, 1782–1850, vice president of the U.S. 1825–32.

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But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.
Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Calhoun supported state nullification of federal laws and gave a speech to Congress titled “Slavery as a Positive Good.”
Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween|P. J. O’Rourke|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Invoking Wilberforce allows conservatives like DeMint to pretend that he, not Calhoun, is their moral lodestar and inspiration.
What Plantation Is Jim DeMint Living On?|Michael Tomasky|April 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a speech on the Senate floor in 1837, Calhoun defended slavery as a “positive good” and not a “necessary evil.”
Southern Conservatives Revive Calhounism—Tyranny of the Minority|Jamelle Bouie|June 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The "Calhoun Option" is to do whatever possible to stop progress, right here, right now.
Wake Up and Smell Reality, Republicans|Justin Green|February 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In this Clay was conspicuous, and Webster and Calhoun were his sympathetic allies.
Expansion and Conflict|William E. Dodd
The free-trade party was led by Daniel Webster, and the tariff party by Calhoun.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson
Mr. Calhoun handed her to a chair, where she began to use her languid but effective fan.
54-40 or Fight|Emerson Hough
It was a risky guess to make on such evidence as Calhoun considered he had, but no other guess was possible.
Pariah Planet|Murray Leinster
Calhoun nodded politely and went back to what he'd been doing before she appeared.
This World Is Taboo|Murray Leinster