Raynors HCA 2015-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/27/2015
A complete and authentic issue of the Niles’ Weekly Register, February 2, 1833, 16pp., disbound, VG. From the interior running 1-1/2 pages is a printing of Gov. John Floyd’s Message, “Governor of Virginia’s Message.” As background, South Carolina had enacted the Nullification of certian federal tariffs. When challanged by the President Jackson, South Carolina tried to set up a Southern convention. In small part, “The resolutions refer to the call of a general convention of the states of this confederacy to take into consideration the subject of the disputed powers of the federal government ... We are called upon by our sister state, who has suffered much from the exercise of unconstitutional power by that government to unite in accomplishing this great object. ..We have long regarded as the citadel of our liberty the sovereignty of these states. ...But if the power lately seized upon by the federal government, and promulgated as rightfully belonging to it, be permitted, sanctioned ...these states then become the vassals of a despotic power, with no rights left them but the right to complain ...”
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