Excerpt from "Slavery a Positive Good" by Senator John C. Calhoun, February 6, 1837 What is Calhoun's main claim in the speech? "There is and always has been in an advanced stage of wealth and civilization, a conflict between labor and capital." ". . . the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good—a positive good. . . ." ". . . in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, . . ." "All we want is concert, to lay aside all party differences and unite with zeal and energy in repelling approaching dangers."