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 pages 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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... force - Clay brings in a Compromise Bill , reducing the tariff to its old basis- South Carolina accepts - Character of Calhoun — Char- acteristics of Massachusetts and of South Carolina . APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI .— ( 1 ) Jefferson on the ...
... force might be used to prevent Pennsylvania from 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 ...
... force of statute , made in the thirty- fifth year of the reign of King Henry the eighth , colo- nists may be transported to England and tried there upon accusations for treasons and misprisions , or con- cealments of treasons committed ...
... force offered to , or attacks made upon them , or any of them , on account of religion , sovereignty , trade , or any other pretense whatever . Art . IV . The better to secure and perpetuate mu- tual friendship and intercourse among the ...
... forces , land or naval ; and the militia of all the states to be under the sole and exclusive direction of the United States ; the officers of which to be appointed and commissioned by them . 4 CHAPTER II THE NULLIFICATION RESOLUTIONS ...
Contents
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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 |