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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... sovereign ; and that we are deter- mined , with our lives and fortunes , to support him in the legal exercise of all his just rights and preroga- tives . And , however misrepresented , we sincerely approve of a constitutional connection ...
... sovereign power whatever a right to dispose of either without their consent . Resolved , N. C. D. 2. That our ancestors , who first settled these colonies , were at the time of their emigra- tion from the mother country , entitled to ...
... sovereign , in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed : But from the neces- sity of the case , and a regard to the mutual interests of both countries , we cheerfully consent to the opera- tion of such acts of the British ...
... sovereign capacity is implied in call- ing a convention ; and thus submitting that instrument to the people . But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it , and their act was final . It requires not their affirmance ...
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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 |