...both Jackson's democratic nationalism and his attack on the BUS. But Jackson threw down the gauntlet: "the tariff was only the pretext and disunion and a southern confederacy the real object," he observed immediately after the nullification crisis ended.6" Nullification's defeat, along with...

...with the indignant frowns of every man who loves his country. The tariff, it is now known, was a mere pretext . . . and disunion and a Southern Confederacy...next pretext will be the negro or slavery question." On December 18 Mr. Crittenden introduced his compromise resolutions, proposing six articles for the...

...demonstrating the heartless insincerity of the Southern nullifiers, he said : ' Therefore the tariff was only a pretext, and disunion and a Southern Confederacy the...next pretext will be the negro or slavery question.' " Time has fully verified this prediction, and we have now not only ' the negro or slavery question...

...the States in which it has existed." Jatntn Monroe. "The tariff wag only the pretext, and dinunion and a Southern Confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro or shivery question." Andrew Jaeklon, May, 1833. " Sir, I envy neither the heart nor the head of that...