Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . will be restored, its pros-perity will return, and the stains upon itsnational character will be transferred andremain an eternal blot on the memory ofthose who caused the disorder. Nopresid
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . will be restored, its pros-perity will return, and the stains upon itsnational character will be transferred andremain an eternal blot on the memory ofthose who caused the disorder. Nopresidential document ever caused so pro-found a sensation, not even that concern-ing the transfer of the government de-posits from the old United States bankto various local banks, under SecretaryTaney, the successor of Duane,—an actwhich nothing less than Jacksons im-mense personal popularity could , Governor Hayue had called. the South Carolina legislature together, totake measures for enforcing the ordinanceof nullification. They authorized the gov-ernor to call out the militia of the statefor the purpose, and ordered the purchaseof ten thousand stand of arms, and arequisite quantity of e(iuipments and muni-tions of war. The feelings of the poli-ticians of other states were of Virginia, Georgia, and Ala-bama approved of the action of the Pal-metto State, and gave assurance that, inthe event of secession, those states wouldjoin her in forming a southern North Carolina refused her assent toany such scheme. Governor Hayne, how- ever, issued his counter-proclamation, de-nouncing the attitude of the generalgovernniejit towards the state of SouthCarolina, and threatening to resist to thelast extremity. Hayne was of the samepolitical stripe, in his day, as Floyd,Jacob Thompson, General Quitman, andthe host of lesser marplots in congress, ofa later era. The time for action had now
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