...question was in debate, John Calhoun said to John Quincy Adams, " that he did not believe that the question then pending in Congress would produce a...dissolution of the Union; but, if it should, the South would be, from necessity, compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain" Mr....

...angel upon earth." About this time Mr. Calhoun remarked to Mr. Adams, that he did not think the skve question, then pending in Congress, would produce...from necessity, be compelled to form an alliance, oifensive and defensive, with Great Britain. Mr. Adams asked if that would not be returning to the...

...John Quincy Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union ; but if...whether he thought if, by the effect of this alliance, the population of the North should be cut off" from its natural outlet upon the ocean, it would fall...

...John Quincy Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union ; but if...compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, *ith Great Britain. Mr. Adams asked if ihst would not be returning to the old colonial state. Calhoun...

...John Quincy Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union; but if it...whether he thought if, by the effect of this alliance, the population of the North should be cut off from its natural outlet upon the ocean, it would fall...

...did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a diswlution of the Union ; but if it should, the South would,...whether he thought if, by the effect of this alliance, the population of the North should be cut off from its natural outlet upon the ocean, it would fall...

...of the slave question should produce a dissolution of the Union, which he thought not improbable, ' the South would, from necessity, be compelled to form...alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain.' This remark, which was an exceedingly weak one when it was made in 1820, and long before the question...

...John Quincy Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union ; but if...Adams asked if that would not be returning to the uM colonial state. Calhoun said, " Yes, pretty much ; but it would be forced upon them." Mr. Adams...

...some CODversation with Calhoun on the slave question pending in Congress. He said he did not think it would produce a dissolution of the Union, but, if it should, the South would be from necessity compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain. I said...

...some conversation with Calhoun on the slave question pending in Congress. He said he did not think it would produce a dissolution of the Union, but, if it should, the South would be from necessity compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain. I said...