State Papers on Nullification: Including the Public Acts of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Assembled at Columbia, November 19, 1832, and March 11, 1833; the Proclamation of the President of the United States, and the Proceedings of the Several State Legislatures which Have Acted on the Subject |
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act of Congress adjourned adopted amendment annul Assembly authority Barnard E Barnwell Bauskett Bradwell Burt C. C. Pinckney Clerk Committee common Commonwealth compact concur confederacy consider Consti controversy Convention copy Court declared deem delegated doctrine elected ernment execution exercise exist Federal Government Francis Burt George McDuffie Georgia Gourdin Governor gress Hamilton Hayne House of Representatives important imposing independent ISAAC W James James Spann John Judge Colcock Lacoste laws legislation Legislature Legislature of Georgia liberty manufactures MARCH 11 Massachusetts measures ment Miller motion nation necessary Nicholas Ware Nullification object opinion oppression Ordinance Ordinance of Nullification parties patriotic political Preamble and Resolutions present preserve President principles proceedings Proclamation proper protecting system purpose question Report resistance Resolved respect revenue ROBERT Y Senate Smith South Carolina sovereign sovereignty Spann spirit stitution submitted Tariff Thomas Pinckney tion transmit Turnbull tution unconstitutional Union United Virginia Wilson
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Page 163 - They acted upon it in the only manner in which they can act safely, effectively and wisely, on such a subject, by assembling in convention. It is true they assembled in their several States— and where else should they have assembled? No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the states, and of compounding the American people into one common mass. Of consequence, when they act, they act in their states. But the measures they adopt do not, on that...