Category: History - American
Insistance of the South on the right of secession--Belief in this of English and of some Northern writers--The doctrine of Webster’s speech on nullification approved throughout the country except in South Carolina--Hayne’s doctrine and speech--Webster’s reply to Hayne’s attack...
In 1811, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, a young man not of the age of thirty years, took his seat as a member of the national House of Representatives, and at once became a...
9. CHAPTER III.Let us now retrace our steps and see what took place in the convention that made the Constitution, and what those that made it intended. Fortunately we have the journals of the...
10. CHAPTER IV.During Adams’ administration peace had been endangered by the endeavor of foreigners to embroil the country in the war then raging in Europe. In 1798 the Alien Laws giving the p...
8. CHAPTER II.The claim of South Carolina, at the time of her threatened nullification and secession, and of the South at the period of our civil war, is, that the Constitution which the Stat...
7. CHAPTER I.In the renewed friendly relations at the dinner-table and in the lecture-room, the North of late has had the pleasure of listening to the speeches and discourses of Southern ora...
11. CHAPTER V.In less than the brief space of two and a half years after the Kentucky resolutions were passed Jefferson became President. If he believed in those resolutions he should at once...
4. CHAPTER IV.Jefferson reputed author of Kentucky resolutions--Slight notice taken of Kentucky resolutions--Resolutions are merely the opinion of the legislature passing them--Kentucky resol...
3. CHAPTER III.Convention called to amend the articles of Confederacy--First resolution passed: the government should be supreme and national--The national plan offered by the Virginia delegat...
6. CHAPTER VI.Calhoun in the beginning a leader and advocate of national views in the House of Representatives--Sectional division of States on the question of slavery--Missouri compromise--C...
2. CHAPTER II.The question is whether a national government or a confederacy of nations was made by the adoption of the Constitution--The doctrine of nullification and secession considered--T...
5. CHAPTER V.Doctrines of Jefferson’s inaugural--Serious conflict in the Gideon Olmstead case--Jefferson signed an act authorizing the use of the army and navy against a State--The United St...
1. CHAPTER I.Insistance of the South on the right of secession--Belief in this of English and of some Northern writers--The doctrine of Webster’s speech on nullification approved throughout...