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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... Danger of immediate Dissolution — Sectional Jealousy - Factional Hostilities . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I .- ( 1 ) Note written by Thomas Jefferson . ( 2 ) Instructions for the Deputies appointed by Virginia in 1774 to meet in General Con ...
... of Secession . ( 7 ) Procla- mation of Emancipation . ( 8 ) Amendments to the Constitution following Emancipation . ( 9 ) The Pro- posed XIIIth Amendment . 328 CHAPTER VIII . CONCLUDING Summary of dangers to permanency of X Contents.
... dangers to permanency of the Repub- lic - First , the Negro Problem - Second , the problem of Ignorance - Third , the problem of Expansion— Fourth , Spoliation of the Rich - Fifth , Spoliation of the Poor - Sixth , the policy of ...
... dangers that beset a fed- erated republic . It must become with the American people a fixed principle so to conduct public affairs that no section shall desire to be alien to the common- wealth ; or if the desire should arise , can show ...
... dangerous than were the battles of factions and of sec- tions . With a growth of centralized power in combina- tion with capital , a new Bourbonism arises , that the people will be slow to attack , because too long dazzled with the ...
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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 |