Nullification and Secession in the United States : A History of the Six Attempts During the First Century of the Republic [1897]

by Powell, Edward Payson

• ISBN13: 9781584771326
• ISBN10: 1584771321
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd

Table of Contents

Introductory	1	(49)
The difficulties involved in building the Federal Republic
Danger of immediate Dissolution
Sectional Jealousy
Factional Hostilities
Appendix to Chapter I
Note written by Thomas Jefferson
Instructions for the Deputies appointed by Virginia in 1774 to meet in General Congress
Bill of Rights passed by the Continental Congress, Oct. 14, 1774
Articles of Association passed by the Continental Congress, Oct. 20, 1774
Jefferson's Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence, reported July 4, 1776
Digest of the Articles of Confederation passed by the Continental Congress, July 9, 1778
Hamilton's Plan of Government, laid before the Constitutional Convention of 1787
The Nullification Resolutions of 1798	50	(55)
The Federal Party in power
The people strongly sympathetic with France
The leaders, especially in New England, devoted to England
The Jay Treaty with Great Britain
Hamilton clashes with President Adams
Passage of partisan measures by Federals in Congress
The new Naturalization law
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Their tyrannous character
Their nullification by the Legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky
Two questions involved: First, who were the contracting parties to the formation of the United States; Second, who should decide whether Congressional enactments were Constitutional
The people the final arbiter
Conflicts with the Supreme Court
Plots of Hamilton with Great Britain to attack Spanish possessions
Adams opposes and establishes a treaty with France
The Federal party rent into fragments
Appendix to Chapter II
The Alien Act, June 25, 1798
The Sedition Act, July 14, 1798
The Virginia Resolutions, December 24, 1798
Mr. Madison's report on these Resolutions, 1799
Plot for a Northern Confederacy in 1803-4	105	(48)
Jefferson elected, and Federalists out of power in 1800
Effort to prevent the Presidency from being given to Jefferson
The Federal party consists of Hamiltonians; friends of Adams; and the Essex Junto; all believers in the rule of the Best
The third section plots for the withdrawal of New England from the Union
A Union is formed with Burr in New York
Hamilton opposes Burr
The latter being defeated challenges Hamilton and shoots him
Burr flees to the South
He carries the maledictions of the Federals and contempt of the Republicans
Appendix to Chapter III
The Tory Refugees in New York
Letter of Hamilton to Jay
Letter of Burr just before the Duel
Letter of Hamilton just before the Duel
Note of Harriet Martineau on Duelling
Burr's Attempt at Cleaving the Union in the Southwest	153	(47)
The Union vastly enlarged by the Louisiana Purchase
Burr in desperation turns to the Southwest
He forms alliance with General Wilkinson; is befriended by Jackson
He aims at a great Mississippi Valley Confederation
The people true to the Union
Wilkinson deserts Burr
Burr plots in all directions; starts to New Orleans with a flotilla; is arrested
Burr's trial at Richmond a fiasco
Burr goes to England; is ordered out of the country; goes to France; is kept under surveillance
Released, he hurries to America
His later history one of wretchedness
Is buried as a pauper
Appendix to Chapter IV
Burr's Valedictory to the United States Senate
President Jefferson's Message on the Burr Conspiracy
Burr at his Trial
Testimony of William Eaton
Burr and Seward
New England Nullification in 1812--14	200	(41)
Interference with Neutral Rights by England
The Berlin and Milan Decrees of Napoleon
Congress declares war against Great Britain
New England protests
Efforts to thwart our enlistments
Disaster on land, but success on the ocean
Treaty negotiations
England's demands;
New England Federals urge their acceptance
The Hartford Convention
Resolutions looking towards separation
The triumph of American diplomacy at Ghent, and of American arms at New Orleans
Appendix to Chapter V
Report of the Hartford Convention
Resolutions of the Hartford Convention
Action of Towns
South Carolina Nullification in 1832	241	(87)
The origin of the Canning-Monroe Doctrine of 1823
The Missouri Compromise of 1820
A geographical line established between free and slave labor
Growth of the protective tariff principle
Agricultural States protest
South Carolina votes to nullify the tariff action of 1832
Jackson proposes force
Clay brings in a Compromise Bill, reducing the tariff to its old basis
South Carolina accepts
Character of Calhoun
Characteristics of Massachusetts and of South Carolina
Appendix to Chapter VI
Jefferson on the Proposal of Canning
President Monroe's Message
Nullification Ordinance of South Carolina
Digest of the Address of the South Carolina Convention
Digest of Appeal to the People of the United States
Jackson's Proclamation
Livingston's Views
Webster's Four Propositions
Secession in 1861	328	(83)
Sectionalism fully developed
The struggle of free labor with slave labor inevitable
The question one both of economics and morals
Disunion threatened
Compromise efforts of 1850
Freedom declared national
Slavery declared national
Abolition of Compromises in 1854
Election of Lincoln
Secession War
Free Labor triumphs
Slavery as a Social principle abrogated by civilization
The Indissolubility of the Union, except by revolution, established
Appendix to Chapter VII
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
Digest of the Ostend Manifesto
Abolition of the Compromise of 1820
South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession
Greeley on the Rights of Secession
Proclamation of Emancipation
Amendments to the Constitution following Emancipation
The Proposed XIIIth Amendment
Concluding	411	(42)
Summary of dangers to permanency of the Republic
First, the Negro Problem
Second, the problem of Ignorance
Third, the problem of Expansion
Fourth, Spoliation of the Rich
Fifth, Spoliation of the Poor
Sixth, the policy of protecting special industries
Seventh, Centralization
Eighth, Failure of Popular Government
Closing review
Appendix to Concluding Chapter
Extract from Hon. T. M. Cooley on Centralization
Extract from Hon. Thomas F. Bayard on Individual Freedom
Index	453