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Chapter 14:
Early Foreshadowings
opinions of Madison and Rufus King
safeguards provided
their failure
State Interpositions
the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions
their endorsement by the people in the presidential Elections of 1800 and ensuing terms
South Carolina and Calhoun
the Compromise of 1833
action of Massachusetts in 1843-45
opinions of John Quincy Adams
necessity for secession.
From the earliest period, it was foreseen by the wisest of our statesmen that a danger to the perpetuity of the Union would arise from the conflicting interests of different sections, and every effort was made to secure each of these classes of interests against aggression by the other.
As a proof of this may be cited the following extract from Madison's report of a speech made by himself in the Philadelphia convention on June 30, 1787:
He admitted that every peculiar interest, whether in any class of citizens or any description of States, ought to be secured as far as p