Excerpt from Address of the Hon.: John C. Calhoun, in the Senate of the United States, on the Subject of Slavery, Read for Him by Hon. Mr. Mason, March 4, 1850 Sir, when questions of this kind take hold of the religious sentiments of mankind, and come to be discussed in religious assemblies, by clergy and laity, there is always to be expected, and always to be feared, a great degree of excitement. It is in the nature of man, manifested by his whole history, that religious disputes are apt to become warm. Men's strength of conviction is proportioned to their view of the magnitude of the question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.