Nullification and an embittered sectionalism was the hateful legacy bequeathed to the republic by the tariff controversy.
Nullification shall leave a fitting successor, as Philip of Macedon left Alexander to carry out his plans.
That dream of nullification was still uppermost in his soul--dispersed, as it was, in the eyes of all reasonable men.
Nullification and Secession he denounces as "twin heresies," that "ought to be buried in the same grave.
President Jackson had stirred the country profoundly by his imperious attitude toward the banking interests on the one hand, and the matter of South Carolina's nullification of the tariff law on the other hand.
Let the laws of the Constitution be obeyed and nullification would never be provoked.
In referring to South Carolina's attempted nullification of the tariff law, she said that if they ever attempted to secede they should be pushed out of the door and not held.
You will find that every time, with the single exception of the nullification question, they sprung from an endeavour to spread this institution.
Go back to the nullification question, at the bottom of which lay this same slavery question.
The more mature and thoughtful among the students shared in the political issues of the time, especially when they were as exciting as nullification then was.
Though the dual administration of Governor Bagby fell on stormy times, as the issue of nullification was then dominant, he succeeded in so directing the affairs of the state as to increase rather than lessen public esteem.
Lewis was a student at the South Carolina College during the time that nullification was a dominant issue, and readily imbibed the principles advocated by Mr. Calhoun, who was then the ideal of most young South Carolinians.
And it was under the same authority that President Jackson crushed nullification in South Carolina and that President Lincoln issued his call for troops to save the Union in 1861.
However, her aunt Serafina had brought influence to bear on her, by opening to her the hope of a possible nullification of her marriage, should she throw herself at the feet of the Holy Father and entreat his intervention.
Nullification and secession, so often confounded, are, indeed, antagonistic principles.
Nullification is a remedy which it is sought to apply within the Union, and against the agent of the States.
I hope none who hear me will confound this expression of mine with the advocacy of the right of a State to remain in the Union, and to disregard its constitutional obligations by the nullification of the law.
A great man who now reposes with his fathers, and who has often been arraigned for a want of fealty to the Union, advocated the doctrine of nullification because it preserved the Union.
Nullification and secession are often erroneously treated as if they were one and the same thing.
It is by this confounding of nullification and secession that the name of a great man whose ashes now mingle with his mother earth has been evoked to justify coercion against a seceded State.
One of these was as to the legitimacy of the parentage of Francesca Pompilia, the wife, and the nullification of the dowry-agreement, and was brought by Pietro in the Tribunal of the Sacred Rota.
But even just ground of fear, because of which the luckless girl was moved to flee, has come to light, namely, the lawsuit brought by her father against the Accused for the nullification of the dowry contract.
They then entered suit before Judge Tomati for the nullification of the dowry contract.
The act of nullification would itself be null and void.
We charge that the present administration and Democratic majority in Congress owe their existence to the suppression of the ballot by a criminal nullification of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
As a culmination of her opposition, South Carolina passed a Nullification Ordinance in 1832, based upon the doctrine of State rights as advocated by John C.
Rise and Progress ofNullification in South Carolina.
But public sentiment had gone too far in South Carolina to be checked; party leaders were too deeply committed to retreat; and at the close of 1832 the ordinance of nullification was adopted by a State convention.
Let it be remembered, that, where nullification is most powerful, it is not unopposed.
Nullification will proceed, or will be put down by a power as unconstitutional as itself.
But there is not an individual in its ranks, capable of putting two ideas together, who, if you will grant him the principles of the veto message, cannot defend all that nullification has ever threatened.
The modern doctrine of nullification was broached by her accomplished statesmen, and an unsuccessful attempt made to deduce it from the Virginia resolutions of 1798.
Is nullification at all more disorganizing than that?
Does nullification teach any thing more revolutionary than that?
The doctrines of nullification have received a severe and stern rebuke from public opinion.
Now, Sir, I think it exceedingly probable that the President may come to an open rupture with that portion of his original party which now constitutes what is called the Nullification party.
On this occasion the doctrine of nullification was sustained by him with far greater ability than it had been by General Hayne, and in a speech which we believe is regarded as Mr. Calhoun's most powerful effort.
The first occurred in 1798, when Virginia and Kentucky passed nullification resolutions.
The fifth, the nullificationacts of South Carolina in 1832.
This was as clear a case ofnullification as that of South Carolina in 1832.
The poison of nullification thus infused into the body politic at its birth bore baleful fruit in the years that followed.
South Carolina; settlement of; nullification in; secession of.
The South Carolinians, on their part, suspended the nullification ordinance and thus avoided an armed conflict with "Old Hickory," as his admirers called Jackson.
In considering the question of secession it will be well to review the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the Nullification episode.
Hayne, nor Mr. McDuffie, nor Mr. Turnbull, nor any other writer on the subject of nullification has condescended to inform us.
The result of this attempt at nullification by Charles X.
Secession is the actual retirement of one of the partners to a common concern; nullification is the refusal of the same partner to be bound by an act of the common agent.
The Constitution, we repeat, is totally silent in regard to the powers attributed by the theory ofnullification to the States and to the General Government.
The process of nullification is therefore, in its most important points, absolutely impracticable.
A few years afterward, its nullification was authoritatively sanctioned by fresh sumptuary laws.
The king, who had a strong partiality for Rochester, favored their views, and Essex, finding that his suit was hopeless with his wife, opposed no obstacle to the nullification of his marriage.
What, for instance, would be the event, if Nullification should find an echo in the same States of the North, where it has lately been so firmly rejected?
It was nearly snapped asunder during the Nullification crisis, occasioned by the resistance of South Carolina to the tariff adopted under the influence of New England, in order to protect her growing manufactures.
That State had, on its own individual authority, declared the tariff act of Congress null and void, and had armed its militia to sustain its nullification Ordinance.
Calhoun began by clamoring for the tariff protection of Southern industries and developed into the chief apostle of nullificationas a means of escaping protective tariffs.
The occasion of this nullification act was the Tariff Laws of 1828, which were not considered favorable to the Southern States.
Charleston took a prominent part in the passage of the nullification act by the State, which maintained that any one of the States might set aside or nullify any act of Congress which it deemed unconstitutional or oppressive.
In effect, therefore, Calhoun, the logician of nationalism in the legislation that followed the War of 1812, became the real architect of the system of nullification as a plan of action rather than a protest.
Calhoun did not publicly avow his authorship or his adhesion to nullification until three years later.
Houston, A Critical Study of Nullificationin South Carolina (Harvard Historical Studies, III.
