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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in Jail. (search)
shed to break the contract, on account of the heavy duties imposed upon foreign merchandise.--In a popular convention, elected with that view, she resolved, on the 19th March, that she would withdraw from the Union, if by a specified day, certain modifications of the tariff, which she had recommended in concert with other Southern States, were not effected. Her Governor called out the militia, and stood prepared to repel force by force, when a compromise, concerted between Messrs. Clay and Calhoun, was adopted by the Federal Congress and the Legislature of South Carolina. "One historical fact, from its peculiar hearing at this moment, ought not to be lost sight of. On two separate occasions since the foundation of the Union, before the moment just mentioned, the right of secession was asserted, and, in both instances, by those very Northern States that are now the most ferocious adversaries of the South. In the first years of the republic, in 1794, during the administration of