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Quotation from Speeches on the Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
“Having now shown what cannot save the Union, I return to the question with which I commenced, How can the Union be saved ?”
Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Calhoun's speech, March 4, 1850, final section (The Works of John C. Calhoun, ed. Richard K. Crallé, vol. 4 (1854), Internet Archive OCR text)
After rejecting Clay's plan, the President's plan, and appeals to the Union's glory, Calhoun turns to his own remedy.
Citation: "Having now shown what cannot save the Union, I return to the question with which I commenced, How can the Union be saved ?" — Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Calhoun's speech, March 4, 1850, final section (The Works of John C. Calhoun, ed. Richard K. Crallé, vol. 4 (1854), Internet Archive OCR text). (id compromise-of-1850-speeches-q5)
Portrait: Henry Clay, Matthew Harris Jouett, Public domain.
