tyler-calhoun

Updated: May 14, 2025

"Or look at us," say the Whigs, "deprived of our inalienable right to office by this Tyler-Calhoun administration.

John Greenleaf Whittier - The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII,: The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics: and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism

"Or look at us," say the Whigs, "deprived of our inalienable right to office by this Tyler-Calhoun administration.

John Greenleaf Whittier - The Conflict with Slavery, Part 1, from Volume VII,: The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics: and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism

Henry Clay, with nearly the entire Whig Party, from the first opposed the Tyler-Calhoun programme. Clay's own reason for this, as his memorable Lexington speech in 1847 disclosed, was that the United States would be looked upon "as actuated by a spirit of rapacity and an inordinate desire for territorial aggrandizement."

Elisha Benjamin Andrews - History of the United States, Volume 3