The home of radical abolitionism was also the home of radical secessionism, as a very real and constitutionally legitimate intellectual and political option.
Massachusetts, a byword for intellectual schizophrenia.
This place has always been so filled with ignorance....
He was accused, by his professor at Yale, of sophistry....
every principle of secession or states' rights which Calhoun ever voiced can be traced right back to the thinking of intellectual New England ... Not the South, not slavery, but Yale College and Litchfield Law School made Calhoun a nullifier ... Dwight, Reeve, and Gould could not convince the young patriot from South Carolina as to the desirability of secession, but they left no doubts in his mind as to its legality.[
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