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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... Election of Lincoln - Secession War - Free Labor triumphs - Slavery as a Social prin- ciple abrogated by civilization - The Indissolubility of the Union , except by revolution , established . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VII .— ( 1 ) Compromise ...
... election . Besides the eleven Articles of Hamilton and the propositions of Pinckney there were two plans laid before the Convention : that of Virginia , which was national ; that of New Jersey , which was federative . To compromise and ...
... States . The judicial department , quite apart from popular election , was to be the creation of the President and the Senate ; while the judges thus con- stituted were out of reach of the people ; except Introductory 9.
... election . The effort of eleven States to break loose from the Union in 1860-61 was not an episode dependent on a novel reading of Constitutional rights , nor was it solely a consequence of the desire to perpetuate a social sys- tem ...
... election of the owner , to be either re - shipped or delivered up to the committee of the county , or town wherein they shall be imported , to be stored at the risk of the importer , until the non - importation agreement shall cease ...
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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 |