Identifier: politicalhistory00boyd (find matches)
Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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832. It is very probable, however, that they deemed thetime a fit one to test the position of a State in the Union. f Jackson had pledged himself to a single term, and Calhoun had expected tobe his successor. But by adroit use of resolutions in several of the State Legisla-tures in favor of a second tei-m for Jackson, he concluded to run again. Hisquarrel with Calhoun now became a feud. Calhoun pressed his nullification idea, andJackson resisted by the proclamation of force, Dec. 16, 1832. Clay, fearing war,introduced his Compromise tariff bill, which passed March 2, 1833, under whichduties were to be scaled at the rate of 10 per cent, annually till they reached a uni-form rate of 20 per cent. This they did in 1842. During this period the countryreached universal bankruptcy in 1837, a sub-treasury law had to be passed to supplythe place of the suspended State banks, a bankrupt law to relieve individuals, andthe tariff act of 1842 to relieve the country.—Reminiscences of an old Whig,
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36a 364 POLITICAL HISTORY OF and the further thought that any such attempt at coercion wouldbe resisted by the States through which such troops would becompelled to pass, did prevail in South Carolina. At any rate theordinance passed, and it was backed up by resolutions to theeffect that any appeal from it to the United States SupremeCourt would be punishable as an offence, and that any attemptat force on the part of the general government would be followedby the secession of the State. This Ordinance, which went into effect Feb. i, 1833, placed theState in the attitude of forcible resistance to the laws of theUnited States. A certified copy of it reached the President inDecember, 1832, the Legislature of the State in the meantimepassing laws taking back all those powers it had parted with tothe central government, and rapidly placing it on a war footing.Soon after its receipt, the President, Dec. 16, 1832, issued hiscelebrated proclamation to the people of the State. It is im-portant

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