From His Satanic Majesty himself.
Oh, all the work gets done only in the committee meetings, right? Even today that doesn't happen.
"But it was not the journalistic barrage and the poisonous rhetoric, nor even the covert activities of Crawford, that threatened serious divisions among the Jacksonians. It was, as Calhoun knew it would be, the tariff issue, on which the Adams administration was united but on which the Jackson forces were in disarray.
"Calhoun participated in discussions with Van Buren and Speaker Stevenson on the proposed tariff bill. None of them wanted the tariff question to play a part in the presidential campaign, but they saw no way to circumvent it since their opponents were determined to make it the prime political issue. ... What is known is that Calhoun approved the bill as reported." [John Niven, John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union, pp. 131-133]
And
"Van Buren had met with Calhoun and presented him with two alternatives. The first was for southern members to join with New Englanders and defeat the bill as reported. But, argued Van Buren, this would result in ultimate passage of a protective tariff because westerners would join with eastern interests to gain a modified bill. The second alternative was for southerners to resist all amendments that would raise rates and take a chance that the New England members would join the southerners and defeat the bill during its passage in either house. Van Buren stressed the fact that this arrangement risked a union of moderate and high tariff members, which would pass the bill, but it also held out the prospect of defeating the bill entirely. Calhoun accepted his reasoning and urged southern members to adopt the poison pill strategy." [Ibid., p. 133]
You read that stuff and accept it as the gospel, don't you? Have you read Calhoun's 1837 speech regarding this? I'll post a link to it and quote a few actual parts, maybe some wishing to buy the books you listed will have second thoughts. I learned very quickly since joining this forum that historians can't be trusted. Quoting their opinions can get embarrassing.
http://www.archive.org/details/worksofjohnc03calhrich
Wow this ain't pasting correct but it'll do.
"Have you forgot the tariff of
1828, that bill of abominations so execrated by the South,
and which has brought so many disasters on the country ?
I have (looking at Mr. Wright) its author in my eyes,
and he knows the fact. He well remembers the part he bore in
the passage of that act, and the means by which it was
effected. It was passed by a breach of faith. We were de-
ceived then. It will not be my fault if we be deceived now."
"Our hopes were soon blasted. A certain individual, then a
Senator, but recently elected to the highest office in the
Union, was observed to assume a mysterious air in relation
to the bill, very little in accordance with what, there was
every reason to believe, would have been his course. The
mystery was explained when the bill came up to be acted
upon. I will not give in detail his course. It is sufficient
to say, that, instead of resisting amendments, as we had a
right to expect, he voted for all which were necessary to
secure the votes of New England ; particularly the amend-
ments to raise the duties on woollens which were known to
be essential for that purpose. All these amendments, with
one or two exceptions, were carried by his votes, as appears
from the journal, now on my table, which I have recently
examined. If his name had been recorded on the opposite
side, they would have been lost, and with them, the bill itself."
"Having traced the tariff of 1828 to the Chairman of
the Committee on Finance, and the President elect,
as its authors; I next propose to trace, very briefly, what followed down to
the passage of the act of 1833, which settled the controversy
that grew out of the former, and which this bill, originating
with its authors, is intended to unsettle, in order that the
Senate may have a connected view of the whole series of
events connected with this deeply important subject, and of
which the present measure forms the last."
A couple of the sources I found last night credited Lincoln as having said it in 1858 and "some years ago." Take for example, this 1861 book 
Bringing the