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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... secede . Hamilton's ideal was extreme . He would obliterate State sovereignty , if not State lines , fusing the whole population in one unit , with a single supreme head . Preliminary to such a step he would have the State governors to ...
... seceding . Jef- ferson wrote in 1786 : " I fear that the people of Ken- tucky think of separating , not only from Virginia , but also from the Confederacy . I should think this a most calamitous event . Our Confederacy must be viewed as ...
... seceding from the debtor States . ” " " Hamilton had laid before the Constitutional Conven- tion eleven propositions which he would make the basis of the new government . These were so monarchical in tone that he received no support ...
... secede , and form a separate compact , " the same difficulties might occur in the smaller union ; and finally each unit fall apart into its colonial condition . " He might have added that the end might not be there ; but that each State ...
... secede . ' " " The history of the ratifying conventions contains . further evidence that the government was considered to be a compact of sovereign States . In the Massa- chusetts convention Fisher Ames argued that " The Senators ...
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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 |