November Twenty-Fourth
PROTEST AGAINST THE TARIFF, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1832
The majority in Congress, in imposing protecting duties, which are utterly destructive of the interests of South Carolina, not only impose no burthens, but actually confer enriching bounties upon their constituents, proportioned to the burthens they impose upon us. Under these circumstances, the principle of representative responsibility is perverted into a principle of representative despotism. It is this very tie, binding the majority of Congress to execute the will of their constituents, which makes them our inexorable oppressors. They dare not open their hearts to the sentiments of human justice, or to the feelings of human sympathy. They are tyrants by the very necessity of their position, however elevated may be their principles in their individual capacities.
George McDuffie
(Address to the People of the United States)
Ordinance of Nullification passed by South Carolina, 1832
Battle of the Clouds, Lookout Mountain, 1863
November Twenty-Fifth
PROTEST AGAINST THE WAR OF 1812, NEW ENGLAND