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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... Massachusetts and of South Carolina . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI .— ( 1 ) Jefferson on the Proposal of Canning . ( 2 ) President Monroe's Mes- sage . ( 3 ) Nullification Ordinance of South Carolina . ( 4 ) Digest of the Address of the South ...
... Massachusetts invited a General Congress of the col- onies to meet in New York , October 7 , 1765. Nine colonies which were there represented , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , Pennsylvania , Maryland , South Carolina ...
... Massachusetts , Vir- ginia , Georgia , Pennsylvania , and the Carolinas . There was no direct representation of the people . In 1783 , an attempt was made by Congress to secure power by im- post tax to pay the debt incurred by the ...
... Massachusetts and New York were strongest in opposition . Webster , in 1838 , said : " The Commonwealth of Virginia is enti- tled to the honor of commencing the work of establish- ing the Constitution . There is not a brighter jewel in ...
... Massachusetts , did not hesitate to say that if the appropriation bills failed to pass they would " throw up the game . ' Dexter was an avowed believer that the presidency must be changed to the life tenure . Hamilton seems never to ...
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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 |