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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... equal justice to all , this book is dedicated- -our common land — our indissoluble Union . " With malice toward none ; with charity for all . " Abraham Lincoln . PREFACE HIS book is undeniably written for a purpose .
... garden stuff and Connecticut firewood . These States retaliated with similar measures . The smaller States were equal every way in power to the larger ones ; and in vital matters , Delaware , Rhode 4 Nullification and Secession.
... equal and equally represented . Its representatives must look solely to it for their support , and for their instruc- tion . They must collectively vote in obedience to its will and be separately subject to its recall . " Jefferson ...
... equal the virulence of the popular hate which characterized the wrangling of Federals and Anti - federals from 1789 to the Hartford Convention of 1814. The present era of centralization , protected trusts , and general State socialism ...
... equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them , a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . We hold these truths to be self ...
Contents
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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 |