This doctrine is strange indeed in the mouth of the Prince of nullifiers and great champion of State Sovereignty.
This exposition by the Vice-President is recognised by the nullifiers as the most authentic statement that has yet appeared of their sentiments, and is constantly referred to as the standard and symbol of the true nullifying faith.
You have, I think, shown satisfactorily that we never have been perfectly distinct, independent societies, sovereign in the sense in which the Nullifiers use the term.
Mr. Calhoun and all the Nullifiers agree to the principle.
You have brought into view numerous important historical facts which, in my judgment, remove the foundation on which the Nullifiers and Seceders have erected that superstructure which overshadows our Union.
The nullifiers claimed this as a triumph, and formally repealed the ordinance of nullification, as if it had accomplished its object.
These testimonies absolve Mr. Jefferson: but thenullifiers killed his birthday celebrations!
He fully overthrows and justly resents the attempt "of the nullifiers to make the name of Mr. Jefferson the pedestal of their colossal heresy.
Not until the nullifiers were defeated, and had failed to draw the South into their nullification plan, was slavery agitation introduced into Congress and made a sectional party question with aggressive demands for national protection.
Had the Anti-Nullifiers stood firm, the Nullifierswould probably have given way, and if not, would certainly have been crushed.
The first man to take up the gauntlet the Nullifiers had thrown down was Webster, in his famous reply to Hayne.
If the struggle with the Nullifiers showed Benton at his best, in the conflict with the Bank he exhibited certain qualities which hardly place him in so favorable a light.
One result, at least, the Nullifiers accomplished,--they completely put an end to the Jefferson birthday celebrations.
It must always be kept in mind in describing the attitude of the Jacksonian Democrats towards the Nullifiers that they were all along, especially in the West, hostile to a very high tariff.
On the constitutionality of the laws which the nullifiers object to, and their right to recede from the Union, this able State paper is full and conclusive.
It is a document addressed to the nullifiers of South Carolina, occasioned by the late treasonable proceedings of their convention.
If the nullifiers or believers in extreme States' rights supposed Jackson to be on their side, they were quickly undeceived.
When Jackson was asked, years afterward, what he would have done with Calhoun and the nullifiers if they had continued, he replied, "Hung them as high as Haman.
Then Jackson, with his undaunted courage and indomitable will, ordered a body of troops to South Carolina, and threatened to hang Calhoun and his nullifiers as "high as Haman.
There can be no doubt that the outlook was very threatening, and the nullifiers were extremely likely to be the first to suffer from the effects of the impending storm.
The nullifiers could now declare that every means suggested by their opponents as regular and lawful had been tried and had failed, and that there now remained only submission to oppression, or nullification, or rebellion.
The nullifiers had committed themselves to the doctrine that the nullifying power was a power of sovereignty, not of government, and that it resided, therefore, in the convention, not in the legislature.
There are many followers and admirers of Jefferson who maintain that he did not take the same view of the Kentucky resolves as the nullifiers of South Carolina.
Many protectionists believe that if Mr. Clay had been willing to give to General Jackson the glory of an absolute victory over the Nullifiers of South Carolina, the revenue system of the country would have been very different.
The nullifiersfirst postponed and then repealed their ordinance.
Jackson did not attend, but he sent a toast, and probably the seven words of his toast were more confounding to the nullifiers than all the stately paragraphs of Webster's oration.
For the time, even Calhoun and the nullifiers yielded the first place among his enemies to Clay, Biddle, and the Bank.
The people had given an answer to Clay and Biddle and Calhoun and Marshall; to the corrupters of the government and the enemies of the President; to the nullifiers of the law and the slanderers of Peggy Eaton.
But neither the nullifiers nor the Bank were willing to give up.
The nullifiers had carefully planned the evening's proceedings with a purpose to strengthen their cause with the country.
Virginia and North Carolina voted heavily for the bill, but South Carolina and Georgia as vigorously opposed it; and the nullifiers refused to see in it any concession to the tariff principles for which they stood.
The nullifiers did not at once recoil from the blow.
The nationalists favored working through the customary channels of legislative reform; the nullifiers urged that the State interpose its authority to prevent the enforcement of the objectionable laws.
On the other hand, the nullifiers had brought about the repeal of the laws to which they objected and had been largely instrumental in turning the tariff policy of the country for some decades into a new channel.
Accordingly, a bill was introduced which aimed to do just what the nullifiers had been clamoring for, that is, to reduce the revenue to the amount required by the government.
In other words, I think the President, whoever he may be, should treat all attempts Douglas, to break up the Union by resistance to the laws, as Old Hickory treated the nullifiers in 1832.
I tell you, it’s old Union Crick that keeps the Nullifiers down in Tallapoosy!
The controversy with theNullifiers had exhibited Jackson's patriotism and force of character in a strong and popular light, but it had lost him what support he could still count upon among the politicians.
Much depended upon the attitude of the new President, and the Nullifiers did not despair of enlisting him on their side.
That this party could make common cause with the Nullifiers seemed impossible.
While all America was rejoicing over the peaceful end of what had looked like an ugly civil quarrel, the President was writing to a friend and supporter: "You have Nullifiers amongst you.
The nullifiers enraged him, and though they abstained from resorting to extreme measures, they continued their threats.
Calhoun The president's proclamation against the nullifiers Compromise tariff Morgan and anti-masonry Private life of Jackson His public career Eventful administration HENRY CLAY.
Then the President sent a message to Congress requesting new powers to put down the nullifiers by force, should the necessity arrive, which were granted, for he was now at the height of his popularity and influence.
On March 3 it became a law, and on March 11 the South Carolina Nullifiersheld an adjourned meeting of their convention and nullified their previous nullification.
The Nullifiers saw, and saw correctly, that the anti-slavery sentiment could only be resisted in America as heresy was resisted by Louis XIV.
He defended the Union against the Nullifiers as decisively in one way as Jackson did in another.
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