"We now begin to experience the danger of admitting so great an error (all men are created equal) to have a place in the declaration of our independence. For a long time it lay dormant; but in the process of time it began to germinate, and produce its poisonous fruits. It had strong hold on the mind of Mr. Jefferson, the author of that document, which caused him to take an utterly false view of the subordinate relation of the black to the white race in the South; and to hold, in consequence, that the former, though utterly unqualified to possess liberty, were as fully entitled to both liberty and equality as the latter; and that to deprive them of it was unjust and immoral."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States SenateVice Presidents of the United StatesPoliticians from South CarolinaUnited States Secretaries of State
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Speech on the Oregon Bill, 1848
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John C. Calhoun
1782 – 1850
US-amerikanischer Politiker
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