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

by Caleb William Loring

[ [91] H. Adams, vol. vi., p. 143.

[ [92] H. Adams, vol. ix., p. 115. Annals of Congress, 1815-1816, p. 1272.

[ [93] H. Adams, vol. ix., p. 116.

[ [94] H. Adams, vol. ix., p. 148.

[ [95] See H. Adams, vol. ix., pp. 149 to 153, for debate and Calhoun’s views.

[ [96] Oliver Dyer’s Great Senators, pp. 183, 184.

[ [97] 4 Elliot, 584.

[ [98] Niles’ Register, p. 335, July 20, 1833. Cooper was President of the University of South Carolina. The University of Virginia would not have him as professor on account of his Unitarian belief, though Jefferson wished it. Is it possible that he was the original author of the Kentucky Resolutions, and furnished them to Jefferson? Jefferson’s correspondence, as far as we have examined, shows no belief in that doctrine.

[ [99] Parton’s Life of Jackson, vol. iii., p. 466.

[ [100] Alex. Johnston, in Winsor’s History of America, vol. vii., p. 286, says that Jackson collected the duties at Charleston by naval and military force, and that the day before February 1st a meeting of “leading nullifiers” agreed to avoid all collision with the Federal Government.