The Cause of the U.S. Civil War
John C. Calhoun to Littleton Waller Tazewell, August 25, 1827, page 4
of the country may present,
to the formation of such
despotic combinations, will
be surmounted by new
schemes of associations,
which in time will be-
come so firmly established,
as to supersede virtually
the forms of the Con-
stitution itself. The Harris-
burgh Convention has com-
menced this state of things.
It is the selected instrument
to combine with greater
facility the great geographical
Northern manufacturing in-
terest in order to enforce
more effectually the system
of monopoly and extortion
against the consuming
States. If it should suc-
Original documents at the John C. Calhoun Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
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