Documents: Speech of John C. Calhoun and report of Henry Laurens Pinckney sixteen-page document entitled SPEECH OF MR. CALHOUN, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, MARCH 4, 1850. Towers, printer, corner of Sixth street and Louisiana avenue. This speech is said to mark the culmination of Calhoun's political career. Although seriously ill, he came to the Senate on March 4, but at the urgent advice of friends, he did not undertake the physical strain of delivering the speech that he had carefully prepared. He gave the manuscript to Senator James M. Mason of Virginia, who read it with dramatic effect, while Calhoun sat at his side. Calhoun was able to appear for a brief time on one or two subsequent occasions, but was too weak to speak at any length. Scarcely more than three weeks after the reading of this speech, the "Great Nullifier" died, on March 31, 1850. twenty-four page series of resolutions of Henry Laurens Pinckney, entitled SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MAY 18, 1836. These resolutions, which easily passed, raised the ire of the Fire-eaters back home, and cost Pinckney his seat in the House in the next election. Regardless, he was elected mayor of Charleston in 1837, where he began construction of White Point Gardens along the Battery. (Total 2pcs)

Literature: Calhoun argues that "Only if agitation over slavery ceased, all western territories were opened to slavery, and the Consitution were amended to give the South a veto to protect its interests could the Union be saved." Reference: Edgar, Walter. SOUTH CAROLINA: A HISTORY. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. pg. 242. "In 1836, in the midst of his second term in Congress, Pinckney suddenly and dramatically split with (John C.) Calhoun and (James Henry) Hammond by introducing a series of resolutions in the House declaring that Congress "ought not" to interfere with slavery in the District of Columbia, and that all abolitionist petitions should be tabled immediately following their reception." Reference: Edgar, Walter. THE SOUTH CAROLINA ENCYCLOPEDIA. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. pg. 729.