WORKS.
Speeches and State Papers (6 vols.) edited by Richard K. Crallé.
Calhoun has been called the philosopher of statesmen, and his style accords with this description. “His eloquence was part of his intellectual character. It was plain, strong, terse, condensed, concise; sometimes impassioned, still always severe. Rejecting ornament, not often seeking far for illustration, his power consisted in the plainness of his propositions, in the closeness of his logic, and in the earnestness and energy of his manner.”—Daniel Webster.
WAR AND PEACE.
War can make us great; but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.
SYSTEM OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
(Speech on State Rights and Union, 1834.)
I know of no system, ancient or modern, to be compared with it; and can compare it to nothing but that sublime and beautiful system of which our globe constitutes a part, and to which it bears, in many particulars, so striking a resemblance.