. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... rotect the liberties of the State, if need ADMINISTRATIONS OF JACKSON AND VAN BUREN. 567 foe, with their Hves and fortunes. TheState prepared to maintain its position byforce. Troops were organized and military stores were collected. The President, on his part, took measurespromptly to enforce the law. He ordered a-jlarge body of troops to assemble at Charles-ton under General Scott, and a ship of warvwas sent to that port to assist the federaloffic
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... rotect the liberties of the State, if need ADMINISTRATIONS OF JACKSON AND VAN BUREN. 567 foe, with their Hves and fortunes. TheState prepared to maintain its position byforce. Troops were organized and military stores were collected. The President, on his part, took measurespromptly to enforce the law. He ordered a-jlarge body of troops to assemble at Charles-ton under General Scott, and a ship of warvwas sent to that port to assist the federalofficers in collecting the duties on war seemed for a time inevitable. The ginia sent Benjamin Watkins Leigh, a dis-tinguished citizen, as commissioner to SouthCarolina, to urge her to suspend the execu-tion of her ordinance until March 4th, asthere was a probability that a peaceful set-tlement of the difficulty would be arrangedbefore that time. South Carolina consentedto be guided by this appeal. 1 Henry Clay, with his usual patriotic self^-Jisacrifice, now came forward in the Senatewith a compromise which he hoped would. THE UNITED STATES TREASURY AT WASHINGTON, D. C. Tresident was firmly resolved to compel thesubmission of South Carolina and to causethe arrest ot Mr. Calhoun and the otherleading nuUifiers and bring them to trial fortreason. The issue of such a conflict couldnot be doubtful. Fortunately a peaceful settlement of theTtrouble was effected. Mr. Verplanck, of New York, a supporter of the , introduced a bill into Congress for a reduction of the tariff, and the State of Vir- put an end to the trouble. He was an ardentadvocate of the protective system, but he wasprepared to sacrifice it to the welfare of thecountry. He introduced a bill providingfor the gradual reduction in ten years of allduties then above the revenue standard. One-tenth of one-half of all the duties forprotection above that standard was to betaken off annually for ten year
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