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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nullification, (search)
xt of this proclamation, see Jackson, Andrew.) This proclamation, written by Louis McLane, then Secretary of the Treasury, met the hearty response of every friend of the Union of whatever party. It was emphasized by ordering United States troops to Charleston and Augusta. Met by such boldness and determination on the part of the President, with such a loyal majority of the people of the Union behind him, the South Carolina nullifiers, though led by such able men as John C. Calhoun and Robert Y. Hayne, paused for a moment; but their zeal in the assertion of State supremacy did not for a moment abate. Every day the tempest-cloud of civil commotion grew darker and darker, until at length Henry Clay, the founder of the American system which had produced this uproar, presented a compromise bill, Feb. 12, 1833, which provided for a gradual reduction of the obnoxious duties during the succeeding ten years. This compromise measure was accepted by both parties. It became a law March 3, 18
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
nt and dedicated the Northwest Territory to freedom, was an Eastern man. Discussing the wisdom of that measure, he referred to the prevailing customs in the South. and made comparisons distasteful to Senators from the slave-holding States. Robert Y. Hayne, of South Carolina, defended his people and arraigned those of the East in a long and able speech. Mr. Hayne's speech was delivered on Jan. 21. On the 26th, Mr. Webster replied in an argument which has become historic. Inspired by thiMr. Hayne's speech was delivered on Jan. 21. On the 26th, Mr. Webster replied in an argument which has become historic. Inspired by this battle of giants, Mr. Calhoun, who was then Vice-President, resigned that position that he might enter the Senate as a member, and in July next following he delivered a speech discussing not anything then before the body, but the argument delivered by Mr. Webster six months before. Following this, at the next session of Congress, came the famous free-trade report of the committee on ways and means, followed by the nullification proceedings of 1832 and the compromise tariff act of 1833, a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of South Carolina, (search)
hn Drayton1808 Henry Middleton1810 Joseph Alston1812 David R. Williams1814 Andrew J. Pickens1816 John Geddes1818 Thomas Bennet1820 John L. Wilson1822 Richard J. Manning1824 John Taylor1826 Stephen D. Miller1828 James Hamilton1830 Robert Y. Hayne1832 George McDuflie1834 Pierce M. Butler1836 Patrick Noble1838 B. K. Henneganacting1840 J. P. Richardson1840 James H. Hammond1842 William Aiken1844 David Johnson1846 W. B. Seabrook1848 John H. Means1850 John L. Manning1852 James ey5th to 7th1798 to 1801 Thomas Sumter7th to 11th1801 to 1810 John Ewing Calhoun7th1801 to 1802 Pierce Butler8th1803 to 1804 John Gailard8th to 20th1805 to 1826 John Taylor11th to 14th1810 to 1816 William Smith14th to 18th1817 to 1823 Robert Y. Hayne18th to 22d1823 to 1832 William Harper19th1826 William Smith20th to 22d1826 to 1831 Stephen D. Miller22d1831 to 1833 John C. Calhoun22d to 28th1833 to 1843 William C. Preston23d to 27th1833 to 1842 George McDuffie27th1843 to 1846 Danie
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ndale, and tried on the track at Honesdale......Aug. 8, 1829 William Lloyd Garrison publishes the Genius at Baltimore, Md., advocating immediate emancipation......1829 Twenty-first Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 7, 1829 Robert Y. Hayne's (South Carolina) great speech in defence of State rights in the Senate on the Foote resolution, limiting the sale of public lands......Jan. 25, 1830 Daniel Webster's reply defending the Constitution......Jan. 26-27, 1830 Bill beforect of Congress......June 28, 1886 Act to legalize incorporation of national trade unions, headquarters in District of Columbia......June 29, 1886 Act restoring Gen. Fitz John Porter to the army, approved......July 1, 1886 Paul Hamiltons, Hayne, the Southern poet, born 1831, dies near Augusta, Ga.......July 7, 1886 Order of President Cleveland warning office-holders and subordinates against the use of official positions to influence political movements......July 14, 1886 Act taxin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
nforce 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 State convention passes two ordinances: first, repealing the nullification act of Nov. 2
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webster, Daniel 1782-1852 (search)
nate, of which he was a member in 1827-39. His celebrated speech in reply to Hayne, of South Carolina, delivered in the Senate in 1832, is considered the most corenton, N. J. He died in Marshfield, Mass., Oct. 24, 1852. Webster's reply to Hayne. The following is the text of Senator Webster's reply to the speech of SenatSenator Robert Y. Hayne (q. v.): Mr. President,—When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself ofs heart, that there was something rankling here, which he wished to relieve. [Mr. Hayne rose and disclaimed having used the word rankling. ] It would not, Mr. Presidd, construed, or decided on but by her own feelings of honorable justice. [Mr. Hayne here rose and said that, for the purpose of being clearly understood, he woulent lies in a direct appeal to the interference of the State governments. [Mr. Hayne here arose. He did not contend, he said, for the mere right of revolution, b
1st of January, 1831, or sympathized with the rising pulsebeat of that tremendous power of which he was to become a prominent director, and which was to change the destiny of this nation, is not now clearly known: but the immortal works of genius whose spirit he had fondly breathed are instinct with the love of human liberty; and his mind had thus been nurtured for the acceptance and performance of his mission, whenever his day should come. Daniel Webster, even then, in his reply to Col. Robert Y. Hayne (Jan. 26 and 27, 1830) had brought the North up somewhat towards its true position; and as a Whig and genuine admirer of the principles and eloquence of the great senatorial leader, Mr. Sumner must have caught, even at that early day, some glimpses of a grand impending crisis. Entering the Cambridge Law School in 1831, he came immediately under the instruction of that eminent jurist and accomplished scholar, Joseph Story, Ll.D., who very soon began to appreciate the ability and to
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 2: the Background (search)
d form of metaphysical faith among us. No doubt all nations harbor similar prejudices as to their own institutions; but the nations of Europe have been jostled into liberalism by their contiguity one with another; and the jostling is now being extended to us. During our early history, however, we were isolated, and our intellectual classes took their American history a little too seriously. The state of mind of our statesmen and scholars in that epoch is well summed up in Webster's reply to Hayne. That speech closes an epoch. It is the great paving-stone of conclusive demonstration, placed upon the mouth of a natural spring. All this while something had been left out in all the nation's political and social philosophy — something which policy forbade men to search for, and this something was beginning to move in the pit of the stomach of Americans, and to make them feel exceedingly and vaguely ill. In order to bind the Colonies into a more lasting union, a certain suppression o
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 3: the figure (search)
ature of Massachusetts can provide a durable remedy for this most appalling grievance .. Robert Y. Hayne of Columbia, S. C., begged Otis to find out whether Garrison had mailed him (Hayne) a copy Hayne) a copy of the Liberator. Otis obsequiously sent a deputy to question Garrison. This was something very like a prostitution of his office on the part of Mayor Otis; because what Hayne wanted was to obtain eHayne wanted was to obtain evidence to be used in a criminal prosecution of Garrison. Garrison at once becomes the able constitutional lawyer. The Hon. Robert Y. Hayne of Columbia, S. C., says the Liberator of October 29thThe Hon. Robert Y. Hayne of Columbia, S. C., says the Liberator of October 29th, 1831, (through the medium of a letter), wishes to know of the Mayor of Boston, who sent a number of the Liberator to him, a few weeks ago. The Mayor of Boston (through the medium of a deputy) wishesaforesaid individual. Mr. Garrison (through the medium of his paper) wishes to know of the Hon. Robert Y. Hayne of Columbia, S. C., and the Mayor of Boston, what authority they have to put such quest
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
; reward offered forhisarrest,by Georgia Legislature, 48, 49, 256; and J. Q. Adams, 50; indicted in No. Carolina, 50; and Hayne, 53, 54; and the Liberator, 57; and the Colonization Society, 63 ff.; his Thoughts on African Colonization, 63, 64, 65; h 74, 75. Gurney, Samuel, 245, 251. Harrington, Judge, 140. Harris, Miss, colored pupil of P. Crandall, 70, 71. Hayne, Robert Y., Webster's reply to, 14; appeals to Otis against G., 53; Liberator, quoted on, 53, 54. Henry, Patrick, 215. Hernert E., 24. Liberator, the, G.'s first editorial in, 35-41; founded by G., 47, 56; Southern campaign against, 51, 52; and Hayne, 53, 54; office of, 57, 58; office of, closed, 123, 124; 82, 97, 98, 99, 148, 150, 152, 153, 167, 168, 179, 189. Linco, 51. Ward, Samuel R., 217. Washington, George, 215. Webb, Richard D., quoted, 195. Webster, Daniel, his Reply to Hayne, 14; Channing and, 28; and the Fugitive Slave Law, 235, 236, 238; Abolitionists and, 239; 138, 140, 199. Weld, Theodo
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