Clay was probably the best of the triumvirate; Calhoun was Hitler, and Webster sold out his morals to the Slave Power far more than Clay, despite the former being from a free state and the latter a slave slate.
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I agree (totally unexpected ik), Calhoun was funny but also semi-deranged and evil, I've softened on Webster but he allowed himself to become the puppet of wealthy barons and was funadmentally conservative, Clay was kinda driven by ambition but also held genuine beliefs which are evidenced by
his support for colonisation of slaves (not a good policy, but one he stuck by despite it being unpopular), his attempt to secure graduated emancipation twice in Kentucky (1799 and 1849) and his persistence with the American System.
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