Clyde N. Wilson

It's better than the stupid ideologies, these European inventions.

I mean, look, Clyde Wilson and I wrote an entire book in 2012 So, uh, I don't know how old Micaiah is.

Uh, I mean, he's older than, you know, 14, so he probably was born, you know, somewhere around 2006.

So he's too young.

Um, he-- I was introduced to Bradford as a teenager.

Uh, I started reading his work based upon the recommendation of Dr. Clyde Wilson, who was the editor of the Calhoun Papers at the University of South Carolina.

Clyde was never a professor of n- of mine, but he's been a, a dear friend for 20 years.

Uh, Bradford-- Without Bradford, uh, I don't know that anything called Southern conservative thought would be discussed by much of anybody right now.

I think that's the problem with our understanding of Abraham Lincoln, who he was, what he would be, what he wanted to be, what he wanted the United States to be.

Now, I go back to an essay that Clyde Wilson wrote on John C. Calhoun, which is often characterized as who is often characterized as more of an ambitious politician than a statesman.

That would be the way that people often portray Calhoun.

But I think Wilson points out very accurately that John C. Calhoun really was a statesman because he didn't look at things for party principle or for short-term gain.

Many New Yorkers were against the war in the first place, but in total numbers, far more of them ended up fighting in the war compared to the abolitionists of Massachusetts who had backed the war from the beginning.

Professor Clyde Wilson observes that Historians have often noted that, generally speaking, the best generals and soldiers in the Union armies were not supporters of the Republican Party or the Lincoln administration.

Republicans, and especially abolitionists, tended to avoid military service in the war they had initiated.

For example, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison was a pacifist, and so were his fighting age sons.

Nobody talks about the Constitution.

And going through the papers of John C. Calhoun for a project I'm working on, Clyde Wilson talked about that.

And it was right around the 1830s.

That's a transformative decade in so many ways.

But it actually still worked in many cases.

I've mentioned this before.

when I was having a conversation in the 1990s, it was Clyde Wilson, myself and another individual.

And I said, you know, we need to have more nullifications, more robust nullification.