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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 8 (search)
out the struggle. Each was early left fatherless — Andrew Jackson's father having died before his illustrious son was born; while the father of John C. Calhoun died when his son was still in his early teens. Each was by birth a South Carolinian; for, though General Jackson's birth-place is claimed by his biographers for North Carolina, he expressly asserted South Carolina Fellow-citizens of my native State! --appealing to South Carolinians in his Proclamation against the Nullifiers, Dec. 11, 1832. He can hardly have been mistaken on this head. to be his native State, in the most important and memorable document to which his name is appended, and which flowed not merely from his pen, but from his heart. Each was of the original Anti-Federal, strict-construction school in our polities — Calhoun's father having vehemently opposed the adoption of the Federal Constitution; while Jackson, entering Congress as the sole representative of the newly admitted State of Tennessee (December
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tariff. (search)
subject of the tariff, urging resistance......July 15, 1832 Convention meets in Columbia, S. C., Nov. 19, and calls on the legislature to declare the tariff acts of 1824 and 1828 null and void in that State, and to prohibit the collection of duties there after Feb. 1, 1833; law passed......Nov. 24, 1832 Secretary of the Treasury, in his report, recommends a reduction of duties to the requirements of revenue......Dec. 5, 1832 President proclaims intention to enforce the laws......Dec. 11, 1832 Mr. Verplanck, from the committee on ways and means, reports a bill providing for the reduction of duties in the course of two years to about one-half......Jan. 8, 1833 Compromise tariff bill introduced by Mr. Clay......Feb. 12, 1833 House strikes out Mr. Verplanck's bill and substitutes Mr. Clay's, which declares its object to be to prevent the destruction of the political system, and to arrest civil war and restore peace and tranquillity to the nation. It provides for a gradu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
the ordinance; (5) giving warning that if the federal government should attempt to enforce the tariff by use of army or navy, or by closing the ports of the State, or should in any way harass or obstruct the State's foreign commerce, South Carolina would no longer consider herself a member of the Union......Nov. 24, 1832 President Andrew Jackson proclaims nullification to be incompatible with the existence of the Union, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed ......Dec. 11, 1832 Calhoun resigns the office of Vice-President......Dec. 28, 1832 Governor Hayne issues a proclamation in answer to that of the President's, in which he warns the people not to be seduced from their primary allegiance to the State......Dec. 31, 1832 A bill to enforce the tariff, nicknamed the bloody bill and force bill, becomes a law of the United States......March 2, 1833 Henry Clay introduces a compromise tariff bill, Feb. 12, 1833; becomes a law......March 2, 1833 A Sta
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
uincy, 1836; for all others, 65, Apr. 11, 1825 For Josiah Quincy, 3168; for Blake, 1750, Dec. 9, 1826 For Josiah Quincy, 2189; for Amos Binney, 340, Dec. 10, 1827 For Harrison Gray Otis, 2778; for Caleb Eddy, 1283, Dec. 8, 1828 For Harrison Gray Otis, 1844; for all others, 152, Dec. 14, 1829 For Harrison G. Otis, 2828; for Theodore Lyman, 672, Dec. 13, 1830 For Charles Wells, 3316; for Theo. Lyman, 2309, Dec. 28, 1831 For Charles Wells, 2918; for Theodore Lyman, 771, Dec. 11, 1832 For Theodore Lyman, 2734; for Sullivan and others, 2448, Dec. 9, 1833 For Theo. Lyman, 4261; for all others, 143, Dec. 8, 1834 For Samuel T. Armstrong, 3025; for John W. James, 1185, Dec. 13, 1835 For Samuel A. Elliott, 3288; for James and Williams, 2377, Dec. 8, 1836 For Samuel A. Elliott, 3471; for Walker, 1126; for Lyman, 1138, Dec. 11, 1837 For Samuel A. Elliott, 3780; for Caleb Eddy, 2769, Dec. 10, 1838 Election City. For Mayor, Jonathan Chapman, 4399; for