The Life and Services of Joel R. Poinsett, the Confidential Agent in South Carolina of President Jackson During the Nullification Troubles of 18321888 - 84 páginas |
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Página 33 - Our federal union, it must be preserved ! " The nullifiers could only gasp. Calhoun, who was next called on, tried to retrieve the situation by giving as his toast, "The union, next to our liberty, most dear...
Página 55 - Charge will be mode if this card is mutilated or not returned with the book GRADUATE LIBRARY THF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN THE ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN...
Página 25 - The ratification of the Convention Bill was followed in Columbia by a discharge of Cannon and Music from a Band, but the Band (mal a propos) struck up ' Yankee Doodle.' " The Union Party in S° Car* very properly considered this Convention of the State a Critical movement, pregnant with dangerous consequences. They therefore also called a convention of the Union Party to be held at the same time & place. The Members of the two Conventions met accordingly in their separate Places; they eyed each other...
Página 39 - How impotent the threat of resistance with only a population of 250,000 whites & nearly that double in blacks, with our ships in the port, to aid in the execution of our laws! The wickedness, madness & folly of the leaders and the delusion of their followers, in the attempt to destroy themselves and our union has not its paralell in the history of the world — The Union will be preserved. The safety of the republic, the supreme law, which will be promptly obeyed by me. "I will be happy to hear from...
Página 38 - They should recollect that perpetuity is stamped upon the constitution by the blood of our Fathers, by those who achieved as well as those who improved our system of free Government. For this purpose was the principle of amendment inserted in the constitution which all have sworn to support and in violation of which no state or states have the right to secede, much less to dissolve the union. Nullification therefore means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
Página 38 - Fathers, by those who achieved as well as those who improved our system of free Government. For this purpose was the principle of amendment inserted in the constitution which all have sworn to support and in violation of which no state or states have the right to secede, much less to dissolve the union. Nullification therefore means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down. And you also and all other peaceable citizens have a right to aid in the same patriotic object...
Página 36 - F" and revenue cutters in your harbour and to visit Sullivan's Island. This to be done merely as a stranger having curiosity to examine your capacity for defence and facilities for commerce, to your polite aid I recomend him for this object. " I have instructed him to obtain the real intentions of...
Página 41 - Carolina down & place himself at the head of an armed force for such a wicked purpose, I would arrest him at the head of his troops, & hand him over to the civil authority for trial. The voluntiers of his own state would enable me to do this. I repeat again, my pride and desire is, that the Union men may arouse & sustain the majesty of the constitution & the laws, and save my native state from that disgrace that the Nullifiers have brought upon her. Give me early intelligence of the assemblage of...
Página 38 - The true spirit of patriotism that they breathe fills me with pleasure. If the Union party unite with you, heart & hand in the text you have laid down, you will not only preserve the Union, but save our native state, from that ruin and disgrace into which her treasonable leaders have attempted to plunge her.
Página 36 - Carolina should be so far deluded, by the wild theory and sophistry of a few ambitious demagogues, as to place themselves in the attitude of rebellion against their Government, and become the destroyers of their own prosperity and liberty.