Author: George McDuffie
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781290605700
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Author: George McDuffie
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-02
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781330573402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Defence of a Liberal Construction of the Powers of Congress as Regards Internal Improvement, Etc: With a Complete Refutation of the Ultra Doctrines Respecting Consolidation and State Sovereignty "Ambitious men, of inferior talents, finding they have no hone to be distinguished in the councils of the general government, naturally wish to increase the power and consequence of (he state governments, the theatres in which they expect to acquire distinction. It is not, therefore, a regard for the rights of the people, and a real apprehension that those rights are in danger, that have caused so much to be said on the subject of prostrate state sovereignties, and consolidated empire." - One of the People. By George M'Duffie, Esq. The United States exhibit at present, a most extraordinary spectacle to the world. We are stunned with the most impassioned declamations in favour of "state rights" - and the danger they are in from the usurpations, and ambition, and despotic views of the general government, which is preparing to devour them, and labouring to produce the so-styled, most abominable of all governments, consolidation, whereby the lives, liberties, and property, of all our citizens, from Maine ta Florida, will be inevitably annihilated. To guard against this conglomeration of evils, preparations are making "to renew" the bloody "scenes of the revolutionary war." A spectator remote from the fervid atmosphere of South Carolina who could view the state of the country with the calm eye of a dispassionate philosopher, would pronounce that this alarming prospect was not only without foundation, but that the dangers of the nation were in a totally opposite direction. "The lion" of the United States government "is bearded in his den" - and by second or third rate members of the confederacy. He would pronounce, with Mr. M'Duffie, [see postea 13] that "we have more cause of apprehension from the states than from the general government, or, in other words, that there is in our system, a greater tendency to disunion than to consolidation." Treaties entered into with all the solemn sanctions that bind civilized nations, are set aside without consulting either of the high contracting parties - and the dreaded monster, the United States, is powerless to enforce the observance of them, or to protect the suffering party. Maine appears disposed to be somewhat troublesome, about the decision of the boundary line. None of us has forgotten the difficulties the United States' government experienced during the late war, from the seditious opposition of individual states. To crown the whole, South Carolina, with a population of 280,000 white inhabitants, and 260,000 slaves, appears, so far as can be collected from the proceedings of the nullifiers, to be preparing to annul, and it appears from the operations of her executive, that he is preparing, vi et armis, to resist the operation of, laws enacted in due form by the entire confederacy of twenty-four states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Christopher Childers
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1421426153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this illuminating history, a senatorial debate about states’ rights exemplifies the growing rift within pre-Civil War America. Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union. Was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne, only the vigilant protection of states’ rights could hold off an attack on a southern way of life built on slavery. Meanwhile, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster believed that the political and economic ascendancy of New England—and the nation—required a strong, activist national government. In The Webster-Hayne Debate, historian Christopher Childers examines a sharp dispute in January 1830 that came to define the dilemma of America’s national identity. During Senate discussion of western land policy, the senators’ increasingly heated exchanges led to the question of union—its nature and its value in a federal republic. Childers argues that both Webster and Hayne, and the factions they represented, saw the West as key to the success of their political plans and sought to cultivate western support for their ideas. A short, accessible account of the conflict and the related issues it addressed, The Webster-Hayne Debate captures an important moment in the early republic.
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 1006
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 688
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