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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... sectional or partisan stand- point . But it is not without the sphere of legitimate history to aid by such a statement of facts , in creating a more generous national sentiment ; and a conviction on the part of all sections that ...
... 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- gress . ( 3 ) Bill of Rights passed ...
... sectional sentiment were peculiarly strong in New England . It was a people of intense convictions . The anti - federal sentiment was over- whelming . The Confederate government had been held to be something of a foreign sort . To ...
... sectional autonomy . The fifth act was in the form of nullification , and was confined to South Carolina . The sixth and final act was that of 1861 , when eleven States withdrew their representa- tives from Washington , and created a ...
... Sectional jealousies and sus- picions , and all ungenerous sentiments cannot be too thoroughly discouraged . In a preliminary way it will be useful to note that American history has developed in three characteristic , but somewhat ...
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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 |