THE CRISIS

OF

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE

IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE

UNITED STATES.

ITS CAUSE,

AND HOW IT SHOULD BE MET.

CONTAINING THE CELEBRATED PROCLAMATION OF ANDREW
JACKSON TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA NULLIFIERS; WEBSTER’S
ANSWER TO HAYNE ON THE SUBJECT OF
NULLIFICATION, AND SEVERAL EXTRACTS
FROM LETTERS WRITTEN BY JOHN JAY,
JAMES MADISON, AND ALEXANDER
HAMILTON, PENDING THE ADOPTION
OF THE CONSTITUTION.

BY A. D. STREIGHT.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1861.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-one,
BY A. D. STREIGHT,
In the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the
District of Indiana.