Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six Attempts During the First Century of the RepublicA study of sucession and nullification movements in the United States from the nullification resolutions of 1798 to the American Civil War. Powell proposes that the secession of the southern states in 1861 was not a unique event in American history, but the culmination of a tradition as old as the nation. Indeed, he argues, it was an expression of the "intense individualism which was the most potent factor in the creation of the republic" (Preface). Sensitive to the continued animosity between the North and South, Powell hoped that the historical context provided by his study would help to promote a spirit of reconciliation. The six attempts at nullification and secession that he examines are: - the Nullification Resolutions of 1798 - the plot for a northern confederacy (1803-1804) - the Burr plot (1805-1806) - New England nullification and the Hartford Convention (1812-1814) - South Carolina's attempts at nullification (1832) - the secession of 11 states and creation of the confederacy (1861). |
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... Jackson - He aims at a great Mississippi Valley Confederation - The people true to the Union- Wilkinson deserts Burr - Burr plots in all directions ; starts to New Orleans with a flotilla ; is arrested- Burr's trial at Richmond a fiasco ...
... Jackson proposes force - Clay brings in a Compromise Bill , reducing the tariff to its old basis- South Carolina ... Jackson's Proclamation . Livingston's Views . ( 8 ) Webster's Four Propositions . CHAPTER VII . ( 7 ) PAGE 241 SECESSION ...
... Jackson : " That some of the leaders of the Federal party entertained principles unfriendly to our system of gov- ernment I have been thoroughly convinced ; that they meant to work a change in it by taking advantage of favorable ...
... Jackson , finds it necessary to insist on a dis- tinction between " the people " and the State " or " the government , " then we must refer to another " ( 1 " " chapter of history . The people's Convention 68 Nullification and Secession.
... Jackson did assert this doctrine in one of his veto messages . " Each public officer , " he said , " takes an oath to support the Constitution as he understands it ; and not as it is understood by others . " It was a very similar ...
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June 25 1798 2 The Sedition Act July 14 1798 | 97 |
CHAPTER III | 105 |
ugees in New York 2 Letter of Hamilton to | 150 |
PAGE | 153 |
tory to the United States Senate 2 President Jef | 198 |
SOUTH CAROLINA NULLIFICATION IN 1832 | 241 |
Proposal of Canning 2 President Monroes Mes | 294 |
CHAPTER VII | 328 |
CONCLUDING | 435 |
from Hon T M Cooley on Centralization 2 | 449 |