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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... slave labor inevitable - The question one both of economics and morals - Disunion threatened -Compromise efforts of 1850 - Freedom declared na- tional - Slavery declared national - Abolition of Com- promises in 1854 - Election of ...
... slave trade , was adopted on the 4th ; and on the 2d of August was signed by all the members present except John Dickin- son . Acting for the States as States , Articles of Confedera- tion were drawn up in July , 1776. But it was 1781 ...
... slavery ; one of these , in the apportionment of repre- sentatives , permitted a count of three - fifths of negro slaves ; the other forbade the abolition of the slave trade before 1808. The debate that ended in these concessions was ...
... slave trade for her interest , as the negroes would be imported in her vessels . At any rate the South would form a ... slavery are considerations belonging to the States themselves . " So at the very outset South Carolina and New ...
... Slavery The offspring and the nurse ; Of mad Ambitiou The pamper'd minion ; Of Liberty The scourge and victim . Α Hypogriff In form was not more terrible ; A harpy Not more vile , rapacious , Or Insatiate . The shores of fertile Nile ...
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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 |