John C. Calhoun was a Senator from the South who proclaimed that slavery was a good thing to have and it shouldn’t be abolished. While writing his speech he foreshadows the Civil War and what happens to the USA. He also predicted the Emancipation Proclamation being written and the outcome of it. Calhoun used many examples and reasoning to explain why slavery would not be abolished in his speech “ Slavery a Positive Good”
Even though we would eventually abolish slavery, Calhoun explains that to many people it a natural and important right people had in his society ( lines 63-64) “ Be it good or bad, slavery has grown up with our society and institutions, and is so interwoven with them that to destroy it would be to destroy us as a people.” Calhoun in his speech also makes note that if this petition , which he states through ( lines 26-32) “I then predicted that the doctrine of the proclamation and the Force Bill-that this Government had a right, in the last result…” doesn’t get word around the North to help convince the government to not abolish slavery ( lines 43-46) “ Standing at the point in time at which we have now arrive, it will not be more difficult to trace the course of future events…” the South would eventually have to abolish it because they will not have many supporters. Calhoun in his speech says that “ I then predicted that it would commence as it has with this fanatical portion of society, and that they would begin their operations on the ignorant, the weak, the young, and the thoughtless… however …show more content…
Calhoun was pro slavery and believed it was a positive good. He stated many reasons like it was a custom in society and it was very important. Another reason he gave to backup that slavery is a positive thing is including the benefit it had on the African Americans which to him was a good thing. John C. Calhoun gave a pretty strong argument but as history went along the abolishment of slavery was,
Even though we would eventually abolish slavery, Calhoun explains that to many people it a natural and important right people had in his society ( lines 63-64) “ Be it good or bad, slavery has grown up with our society and institutions, and is so interwoven with them that to destroy it would be to destroy us as a people.” Calhoun in his speech also makes note that if this petition , which he states through ( lines 26-32) “I then predicted that the doctrine of the proclamation and the Force Bill-that this Government had a right, in the last result…” doesn’t get word around the North to help convince the government to not abolish slavery ( lines 43-46) “ Standing at the point in time at which we have now arrive, it will not be more difficult to trace the course of future events…” the South would eventually have to abolish it because they will not have many supporters. Calhoun in his speech says that “ I then predicted that it would commence as it has with this fanatical portion of society, and that they would begin their operations on the ignorant, the weak, the young, and the thoughtless… however …show more content…
Calhoun was pro slavery and believed it was a positive good. He stated many reasons like it was a custom in society and it was very important. Another reason he gave to backup that slavery is a positive thing is including the benefit it had on the African Americans which to him was a good thing. John C. Calhoun gave a pretty strong argument but as history went along the abolishment of slavery was,