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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)
as favored ours may not, by the madness of party, or personal ambition, be disregarded and lost: and may His wise providence bring those who have produced this crisis to see the folly, before they feel the misery, of civil strife; and inspire a returning veneration for that Union, which, if we may dare to penetrate His designs, He Has chosen as the only means of attaining the high destinies to which we may reasonably aspire. General Jackson's Special Message against Nullification January 16, 1833. is equally decided and thorough in its hostility to the Calhoun heresy, under all its aspects, and dissects the Ordinance of Nullification, and the legislative acts based thereon, with signal ability and cogency. A single extract, bearing directly upon the alleged right of Secession, will here be given: The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
1828 and 1832 null and void......Nov. 19, 1832 [The term nullification was borrowed from the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798.] Second session convenes......Dec. 3, 1832 President Jackson issues a proclamation to the people of South Carolina......Dec. 10, 1832 John C. Calhoun, Vice-President, resigns......Dec. 28, 1832 President Jackson, by message, informs Congress of the proceedings of South Carolina, and asks power to enforce the collection of the revenue......Jan. 16, 1833 John C. Calhoun, now a Senator from South Carolina, introduces resolutions: that the theory that the people of the United States are now or ever have been united in one nation is erroneous, false in history and reason......Jan. 22, 1833 Henry Clay introduces the compromise tariff in the Senate as a solution of all pending troubles between the manufacturing States and the South......Feb. 12, 1833 Electoral votes counted......Feb. 13, 1833 Compromise tariff passes the House,
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 4: (search)
dious to the whole country, and has since passed into universal disrepute. But not so with its twin sister secession. Whilst these proceedings were pending, General Jackson was ready and willing to enforce the laws against South Carolina, should they be resisted, with all the means in his power. These were, however, inadequate for the occasion. New legislation was required to enable him to act with vigor and success. For this he applied to Congress in an elaborate message of the 16th January, 1833. Congressional Debates, vol. IX., part 2d, Appendix, p. 145. This was not granted until the passage of the Compromise Act had rendered such legislation unnecessary. In fact, this act and the Force Bill, as it was then called, conferring on him the necessary powers, were approved by General Jackson on the same day (2d March, 1833). Such was, at this crisis, the jealousy of executive power in Congress, that the only effective enactments of this bill were to expire, by their own limi
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 6: (search)
n labor, because the moment that any State felt herself aggrieved she might secede from the Union. What a crushing argument would this have proved against those who dreaded that the rights of the States would be endangered by the Constitution. The truth is, that it was not until some years after the origin of the Federal Government that such a proposition was first advanced. It was afterwards met and refuted by the conclusive arguments of General Jackson, who, in his message of the 16th January, 1833, transmitting the nullifying ordinance of South Carolina to Congress, employs the following language: The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will and without the consent of the other States from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberty and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted, and to the o
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1860., [Electronic resource], Presidents Message. (search)
s were all vain labor, because the moment that any State felt herself aggrieved she might secede from the Union. What a crushing argument would this have proved against those who dreaded that the rights of the States would be endangered by the Constitution.--The truth is, that it was not until many years after the origin of the Federal Government that such a proposition was first advanced.--It was then met and refuted by the conclusive arguments of Gen. Jackson, who in his message of 16th January, 1833, transmitting the nullifying ordinance of South Carolina to Congress, employs the following language:--"The right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberty and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged. Such authority is believed to be utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted and to th
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
ders of their State, sealed with the blood of the Revolution, and witnessed in the history of their legislation, they nevertheless maintain now, as they have ever done, the rights of the people of the slaveholding States to the uninterrupted enjoyment of their own domestic institutions, and all their constitutional rights in relation thereto. 3. Resolved, unanimously. that we adopt the sentiment and language of President Andrew Jackson, expressed in his message to Congress on the 16th of January, 1833, that "the right of the people of a single State to absolve themselves at will, and without the consent of the other States, from their most solemn obligations, and hazard the liberties and happiness of the millions composing this Union, cannot be acknowledged; and that such authority is utterly repugnant both to the principles upon which the General Government is constituted and the objects which it was expressly formed to attain." 4. Resolved. that the Constitution of the United