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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... citizens , and let them vote . Are they property ? Why , then , is no other property included ? " He would " sooner submit to a tax for paying for all the negroes in the United States than saddle posterity with such a Constitution ...
... citizens of the States were divided by their sentiments of friendship for either England or France ; New England being in general anxious for closer English alliance , while the Middle and Southern States were inclined to favor measures ...
... citizens that that day should be set apart for fasting and prayer to the Supreme Being , imploring Him to avert the calamities then threatening us , and to give us one heart and one mind to oppose every inva- sion of our liberties . It ...
... citizens taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our ...
... citizens in the several States ; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and egress to and from any other State , and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties , impositions ...
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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 |