History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . lly reducing duties for thenext ten years, and enlarging the free all duties of over twenty per cent,by the act of 1832, one-tenth of the excesswas to be stricken off on September 30,1835, and another tenth every other yeartill 1841. Then one-half the excess remain-ing was to fall, and in 1842 the rest,so that the end of the last named yearshould find no duty over twenty per cent This episode, threatening as it was fora time, drew in its train results the mosthappy, revealing with unprecedented v
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . lly reducing duties for thenext ten years, and enlarging the free all duties of over twenty per cent,by the act of 1832, one-tenth of the excesswas to be stricken off on September 30,1835, and another tenth every other yeartill 1841. Then one-half the excess remain-ing was to fall, and in 1842 the rest,so that the end of the last named yearshould find no duty over twenty per cent This episode, threatening as it was fora time, drew in its train results the mosthappy, revealing with unprecedented vivid-ness to most, both the original nature ofthe Constitution as not a compact, and alsothe might which national sentiment hadattained since the War of 1S12. The doc-trine of state rights was seen to have grad-ually lost, over the greater part of thecountry, all its old vitality. Nearly every 1832] THE GREAT NULLIFICATION 75 State Legislature condemned the SouthCarolina pretensions, Democrats as heartyin this as Whigs. Jacksons proclamationagainst them—-impressive and unanswerable. Calhouns Library and Office. —ran thus : The Constitution of theUnited States forms a government, not aleague ; and whether it be formed by com-pact between the States, or in any othermanner, its character is the same. ... I 76 WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS [1832 consider the power to annul a law of theUnited States incompatible with the exist-ence of the Union, contradicted expresslyby the letter of the Constitution, and de-structive of the great object for which itwas formed. . Our Constitution doesnot contain the absurdity of giving powerto make laws, and another power to resistthem. To say that any State may at pleas-ure secede from the Union is to say thatthe United States are not a nation. The congressional debates which thenullification question evoked, among theablest in our parliamentary history, heldthe like high national tenor. Calhounsidea, though advocated by him with con-summate skill, was s
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