. Illustrated universal history: being a clear and concise history of all nations. rleston, declaredthe tariff laws to be unconstitutional, null and void. Assuming that the enforce-ment of those laws would be a sufficient cause for South Carolina to separate herselffrom the Union, that State prepared to resist the collection of duties in the port ofCharleston by force of arms. At this crisis. President Jackson issued a proclama-tion against the South Carolina nullifiers, with John C. Calhoun and Robert at their head, declaring that he would enforce the laws of the United Statesliy mili
. Illustrated universal history: being a clear and concise history of all nations. rleston, declaredthe tariff laws to be unconstitutional, null and void. Assuming that the enforce-ment of those laws would be a sufficient cause for South Carolina to separate herselffrom the Union, that State prepared to resist the collection of duties in the port ofCharleston by force of arms. At this crisis. President Jackson issued a proclama-tion against the South Carolina nullifiers, with John C. Calhoun and Robert at their head, declaring that he would enforce the laws of the United Statesliy military power, if necessary. The, threatened civil war was prevented by acompromise prepared by Henry Clay, of Kentucky, the author of the Missouri Com-piomise, and one of the warmest friends of the tariff system; and, on the 3d tfMarch, 1S33, a law went into operation which greatly reduced the duties so obnoxious to tiie Southern planters. War with the Seminole Indians in Florida— Specie Circular. —Wlien, in December, 1835, the United States Government attempted to remove the. ROBERT FULTON.
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