Talk:James H. Hammond

Untitled
Something about his Mudsill speech should be added 152.23.65.115 15:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Secret and Sacred Diaries
Can this be found anywhere online? Surely it is in free use now.Zigzig20s 11:13, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Secret and Sacred is available from booksellers for less than $5. It is readable and interesting. The encounter with Wade Hampton II's daughters pretty much ruined his career - as he found much later, even his wife undermined his prospects in order to keep him at home. He denies association with Calhoun, saying he considered the man politically inept, they had hardly met, and the few letters received from Calhoun were impersonal and didactic. He was greatly concerned that his slave force 'failed to increase', although the financial loss motivated a great deal of that concern.Hughespj 16:05, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Withers letter
Is it really worth the space to go on and on like this about the teenage Hammond's sexual activity. It seems to be quoted merely to titillate - what was the public effect? It is an interesting contrast with 'Secret and Sacred' in which he portrays himself as agued and worn out, hardly capable of offering or resisting any advances whatsoever. Hughespj 17:39, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * For future editors interested in this section, the Hammond/Withers letters are also discussed in the essay "Writhing Bedfellows" in Antebellum South Carolina: Historical Interpretation and the Politics of Evidence by Martin Bauml Duberman. It appears in Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 6, Nos 1/2, pp. 85-102, Fall/Winter 1980-81, and is reprinted in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr. (New American Library / Penguin Books, 1989) Codenamemary (talk) 21:49, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Confusing paragraph
''His Secret and Sacred Diaries reveal that his appetites did not end there. He describes, without embarrassment, his 'familiarities and dalliances' with four teenage nieces - the daughters of Wade Hampton II. Blaming the seductiveness of the “extremely affectionate” young women, his political career was crushed for a decade to come, and the girls with their tarnished social reputations never married. His father, Elisha Hammond, pushed him hard, regarding him as a genius. Possibly the main lesson he learned from his father was not to marry a woman with a large potential inheritance. That proved to be an undependable way to acquire wealth for his father. Instead, James found himself a young, unattractive woman named Catherine Fitzsimmons with a considerable dowry. Fitzsimmons' sister, Ann, was the wife of Wade Hampton II.''

Was this the remains of a botched attempt to move sentences around? What relationship does "His father... pushed him hard" have to do with the crushing of a political career?

Needs New Sources
Three of six sources are dead links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roofuskit (talk • contribs) 22:29, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Tirana, Albania?
What is this? ''He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and started a practice in Tirana, Albania. He established a newspaper there in support of nullification.''

It would have been extremely strange for this ambitious American lawyer and politician to start practicing law at what was then a very obscure and backward province of the Ottoman Empire. The very last thing which Albanians under Ottoman rule would have been interested to read about was "nullification". What the Tirana Wikipedia page has to say about this period is After 1816, Tirana languished under the control of the Toptani family of Krujë. The Tirana townspeople might have been happy to get the help of an ambitious American lawyer - but I don't think that James Henry Hammond was ever really there, or opened a law office in their town. In fact, I am quite sure this is a mistake, that Hammond never went to Albania and that the town where he opened a law office and started a newspaper was not Tirana, Albania, but some American town. Can somebody find the correct location?Blanche of King&#39;s Lynn (talk) 00:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Checked the history. The place where he started a law office was Columbia, South Carolina. The spurious substitution for Tirana, Albania was made on Novemeber 18, 2017 by [] - evidently a vandalism which had gone unnoticed for several weeks. Now restoring the correct data.Blanche of King&#39;s Lynn (talk) 16:06, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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Common name
Regarding the move of this page, J. H. Hammond (47%), James H. Hammond (33%), and James Hammond (20%) are the only iterations of Hammond's name that constitute over 5% of references to him on newspapers.com in South Carolina from 1830 to 1870. Per WP:INITS, a written-out name is preferable to simply initials if the written-out version is used by RS. Star Garnet (talk) 20:12, 16 June 2023 (UTC)