Works
Speeches and State Papers (6 vols.) edited by Richard K. Crallé.
Calhoun has been called the philosopher of statesmen, and his style accords with this description. “His eloquence was part of his intellectual character. It was plain, strong, terse, condensed, concise; sometimes impassioned, still always severe. Rejecting ornament, not often seeking far for illustration, his power consisted in the plainness of his propositions, in the closeness of his logic, and in the earnestness and energy of his manner.”—Daniel Webster.