Word: calhounism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Founded to honor the memory of his wife in 1939 by Boston's Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 92, father of John Moors Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The other three 1953 winners: Crede H. Calhoun, New York Times Panama correspondent; Ismael Perez Castro, director of Ecuador's El Universe; Arturo Oscar Schaerer, editor of Paraguay's La Tribuna...
...elected, Barkley would be the fifth American to serve in the Senate after presiding over it as Vice President of the U.S. The others: John C. Calhoun, John C. Breckinridge, Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson...
...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...