...children of the North." Southern spokesmen returned to the older definition of freedom as a privilege, a "reward to be earned, not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike." The white man was "made for liberty," while blacks, said Governor George McDuffie of South Carolina,...

...Disquisition Calhoun had prefaced his praise of the principle of liberty with the following qualification: [I]t is a great and dangerous error to suppose that...be gratuitously lavished on all alike — a reward for the intelligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and deserving and not a boon to be bestowed on a people...

...romantic Frenchmen was indeed the origin of misfortune. It follows. from what has been stated. that it is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty. lt is a reward to be earned. not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike: a reward reserved...

...of the race is of greater moment than its improvement. It follows, from what has been stated, that it is a great and dangerous error to suppose that...not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike;—a reward reserved for the intelligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and deserving; —and not...

...natural freedom and equality is "the most false and dangerous of all political errors." Morally, liberty is "a reward to be earned, not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike.""0 Silences regarding the Declaration were quite as deafening as the loud refutations coming...

...statue glorifying an unflinching nullificationist like John Calhoun, who never abandoned the view "that it is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty," should find no place in the US Capitol's Great Rotunda, where it is now prominently displayed. This...

...to it.115 Although Calhoun remained devoted to this interconnection, he nevertheless submitted "that it is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty."116 In a decentralized republic, states become the primary arbiters of the relationship between...

...senator John C. Calhoun, mining Aristotle's theories of natural rights, wrote, "It follows . . . that it is a great and dangerous error to suppose that...equally entitled to liberty. It is a reward to be earned ... a reward reserved for the intelligent, the patriotic, the virtuous and deserving; and not a boon...

...for liberty, and thus require more power in the government that protects them and orders their lives. "[I]t is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty," Calhoun reminds the reader. Another error, not less dangerous, is the opinion that "liberty and equality...