LAD #13

• In this speech, Calhoun is displaying a great deal of foresight in conveying his fear that sectionalism was creating a rift in the U.S and was putting it's well-being in jeopardy. He believed that slavery was the biggest cause of the divide, as the North and South had completely opposite views on it, and it was creating mass tension among the two sides. He rejects the Compromise of 1850, saying that the Constitution gives southerners the right to own slaves. He thought that the only way for peace was a compromise in which the North would surrender land to the South in order to achieve equality and give the South more representation in the Federal Government. Calhoun knew the potentially disastrous scenarios that could come about as a result of internal issue, and was doing everything he could to help.