Ritchie. It was 99 years ago that John Caldwell Calhoun, then Vice President of the U. S., wrote "The South Carolina Exposition," a political thesis which maintained that the Federal Government was usurping rights inherent to the individual states. Calhoun's protest was inspired by the high tariff law of 1828. Later the tariff problem was swallowed up in the secession issue and the state rights doctrine temporarily crumbled at Gettysburg and Appomattox Court House.
Last week in Chicago, in Kansas City, Mo., and in Omaha another Southerner once more raised the state rights banner,...
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