Nullification, Secession, Webster's Argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions / Considered in Reference to the Constitution and Historically

by Caleb William Loring

[ [62] Hildreth’s History, vol. iv., p. 515.

[ [63] Eliot’s Manual of United States History, 266.

[ [64] Sparks’ Washington, vol. xii., p. 214.

[ [65] Two drafts of the resolutions in his handwriting were found amongst his papers and are published in his writings.

[ [66] Article III., Sec. 1, of the Constitution.

[ [67] Washington’s letter to Dr. Wm. Gordon. Bancroft’s History of the Constitution, vol. i., p. 320, Appendix.

See also in Jefferson’s Works, letter to Madison, April 16, 1781, approving of coercion by a party to a compact.

[ [68] Kentucky resolutions, 4 Elliot, 540.

[ [69] See vol. i., Bryce’s American Commonwealth, p. 328.

[ [70] Bledsoe, Is Jefferson Davis a Traitor, p. 173.