John C. Calhoun: “On the Second Resolution Reported by the Committee on Foreign Relations”

Glossary

• advert call attention to something, particularly a problem
• the history of the country twelve or fifteen years ago a reference to the Whiskey Rebellion, a 1794 uprising in western Pennsylvania
• impressment the act of forcing someone into labor or service
• John Randolph leading figure in the “Old Republican” wing of the former Democratic-Republican Party, which opposed Calhoun’s “National Republican” wing
• Mr. Fox Charles James Fox (1749–1806), leading figure in the British parliament and chief opponent to William Pitt the Younger
• Mr. Pitt William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806), British prime minister (1783–1801, 1804–1806)
• professedly obviously; by clear statement or admission
• regulars soldiers in a regular army—that is, a permanent, full-time military force
• swells in extent and pretension grows in size and demands
• the war against France Britain’s opposition to Napoléon Bonaparte and his attempt to subdue all of Europe during the early 1800s