Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six Attempts During the First Century of the RepublicThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2002 - 461 strani A 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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... morals - Disunion threatened -Compromise efforts of 1850 - Freedom declared na- tional - Slavery declared national - Abolition of Com- promises in 1854 - Election of Lincoln - Secession War - Free Labor triumphs - Slavery as a Social ...
... moral principle of duty . This al- lowed a negative to every legislature , on every meas- ure of Congress ; —a negative so frequently exercised as to benumb the action of the general government . The want , too , of a separation of the ...
... morality or wisdom of slavery are considerations belonging to the States themselves . " So at the very outset South Carolina and New England were of affili- ated temper ; destined always after to be most cordial friends , or most bitter ...
... favor of a separate nationality . Laboulaye , in his Moral and Political Studies , says , " The new - born Republic just missed dying in its cradle . " It became at the very outset clear Í 2 Nullification and Secession.
... moral as well as criminal code was created . In the case against Callender , Judge Chase harangued against the accused , and ordered the marshal to put none but Fed- eralists on the jury . On Callender's lawyers he threat- ened to ...
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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 |
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Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six ... Edward Payson Powell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1898 |
Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six ... Edward Payson Powell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1897 |