John C Calhoun Presidency in 1825

Is this at all possible?

From my understanding before the election he switched from an ardent nationalist to a states rights defender and that was what cost him his chances at winning or even attempting to win, thus he went for the Vice Presidency instead.

So, if he keeps his nationalist stance, would he be abl to win the Presidency at all?

OR, as mentioned in another thread.
Would the House remain deadlocked in 1824 until Calhoun could be sworn in as President in 1825?
 

katchen

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I think that it might have been the fear of a Calhoun Administration that ended the deadlock in the House in 1824. Calhoun was the man who publicized the idea that slavery was a positive good; that the only position Africans belonged in was in bondage to Europeans. A Calhoun Administration that actively sought to defend slavery everywhere would have gotten the US into a confrontation with the UK over its interference with the slave trade--at lest between Spain and Portugal's African colonies and the Western Hemisphere. Also, expect a Calhoun Administration to attempt to invalidate as unconstitutional state laws prohibiting slavery ala Dred Scott.
 

Would such a fire-eater Presidency cause a backlash amongst Northerners (with no need of Slavery), moderate's (who don't like how fervent Calhoun is), and Jeffersonians (who don't like big government forcing their decrees down people's throats)?
 
Would such a fire-eater Presidency cause a backlash amongst Northerners (with no need of Slavery), moderate's (who don't like how fervent Calhoun is), and Jeffersonians (who don't like big government forcing their decrees down people's throats)?
so do you reckon that there would be more of a chance the northerners would secede or would unite with the rest of the country against Calhoun? Because, from some reading, the Federalists seems to support Calhoun, though i think that was more for getting him to back Quincy Adams as President than anything else.
 
so do you reckon that there would be more of a chance the northerners would secede or would unite with the rest of the country against Calhoun? Because, from some reading, the Federalists seems to support Calhoun, though i think that was more for getting him to back Quincy Adams as President than anything else.


Hardly. Slavery had gone off the boil as an issue since the Missouri Compromise, and wouldn't get really toxic again until the 40s. And I don't think anything else would be likely to trigger secesso
 
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