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...more lurid struggle was going on. John Randolph, pain-ridden, drink-ridden, drug-ridden, and yet the clearest head in Congress, was fighting for local rights against the anti-conservative growth of central power. John C. Calhoun, quenching his own burning ambition, was busy on his unpopular formulation of minority rights against "the tyranny of majorities." Nathaniel Hawthorne was throwing his almost obsessive consciousness of sin into the bland and smiling face of the growing optimism...
...Tragic Marriage. In Hawthorne's industrial New England. Bentham was triumphant, although never wholly so. The ostensible home of U.S. conservatism moved to the rural South, there to meet its worst defeat. Calhoun had spoken in principle for all minorities, but in practice he spoke for the slaveholding interest. In dealing with the tragic union of U.S. conservatism and slavery, Russeil Kirk, a bold writer, does not firmly grasp his nettle. He sidles away, with a glancing blow at the abolitionist innovators. He had a better case than he makes...
...monstrous scale, in its time, U.S. chattel slavery was not a conservative institution. Superficially a throwback, it was more truly an innovation, a creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...
Years after Appomattox. a simple, honest and superlatively skillful horse soldier, General Nathan Bedford ("Get thar fustest") Forrest, attended a meeting of Confederate veterans. He listened to typical Southern oratory (Calhoun's principles and Scott's language) on the Lost Cause. Hardly a word was said about slavery. Forrest, ill at ease amid hypocrisy, rose to say that if he hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers, and other folks' niggers, he never would have gone to war in the first place. Forrest was interested in Sambo, not Ivanhoe. The sentiment...
...York All-Stars. As a result, the varsity will field two separate teams Saturday, and will attempt to sweep both ends of the doubleheader. "Due to the progress individual players have made since Bermuda, we have a 50-50 chance of winning both games," notes player-coach Tom Calhoun...