But the means which may be sufficient to prevent diseases are not usually sufficient to remedy them. In slight cases of recent date, they may be; but additional means are necessary to restore health, when the system has been long and deeply disordered. Such, at present, is the condition of our political system. The very causes which have occasioned its disorders have, at the same time, led to consequences not to be removed by the means which would have prevented them.
They have destroyed the equilibrium between the two great sections, and alienated the mutual attraction between them, which led to the formation of the Union, and the establishment of a common government for the promotion of the welfare of all. Tallmadge in the Congressional Globe.
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Civil Disobedience. Compromise of Colored people of Boston. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Emigration of the Colored People of the United Sta Our Elevation in the United States. Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Letter to George Robertson. Letter to Joshua F. The Last Flogging. Democratic Party Platforms. Dred Scott v. Speech on the Dred Scott Decision. Reply to the Dred Scott Decision. Cotton is King. Mud Sill Speech. Dred Scott and Disunion. House Divided Speech. Homecoming Speech at Chicago. He further believed that slavery was the only question that could separate the Union. Designed to protect American manufacturing based in New England, southern planters felt the tariff posed an unfair tax burden on them as they imported many manufactured goods.
Citing states rights doctrine, South Carolina voted to nullify the federal tariffs of and During the crisis, Vice President John C. Calhoun broke with President Andrew Jackson and resigned his office to organize southern resistance. The President sent troops to the federal forts in Charleston Harbor to enforce collection of the tariff. Calling for secession, the South Carolina legislature readied the state militia.
The crisis was defused in by a compromise tariff, but the state had learned that cries of disunion could be an effective political weapon. While white South Carolinians remained vigilant to threats to slavery and continued to advance a doctrine of state sovereignty under the leadership of Senator John C. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.
For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.
We, therefore, the People of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
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