num_pages: 740
description: Revealing documents from a period of intransigent sectional conflict Volume XXIV of The Papers of John C. Calhoun ushers in the final, tumultuous phase in the statesman's public life. Concluding with less than three years remaining in Calhoun's forty-year career, the volume underscores the importance of two themes that dominated Calhoun's concerns -- the efforts of the Northern majority to exclude the South from territories being won in battle and, equally important, his continuing campaign to curb American imperialism, which in Calhoun's mind boded ill for republican virtue.
language: English
title: The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Vol 24: December 7, 1846-December 5, 1847
titlecomplete: The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Vol 24: December 7, 1846-December 5, 1847
ratings_count: 1
series: Papers of John C. Calhoun
publisher: University of South Carolina Press