Eulogy on Mr. Calhoun, 1850 July 4.
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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
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John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics. He did this in the context of protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, mo...
Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864
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United States Congressman from Orangeburg District, S.C., 1853- 1860; delegate to the secession convention of South Carolina; member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Ala. in Feb. 1861 and Richmond, Va., July 1861; raised the Twentieth South Carolina Regiment of Volunteers and was commissioned its colonel; promoted to Brigadier General..; wounded in the Battle of Cold Harbor, near Richmond, Va., and died of wounds, 4 June 1864. From the description of Lawr...
