Nullification Seccession Websters Argument And the Kentucky And Virginia Res
Nullification Seccession Websters Argument And the Kentucky And Virginia Res
Caleb William Loring
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The purchase was completed early in 1803, and by it and for all time the power of the old States in the Union was diminished. Even a liberal constructionist might have hesi- tated as to its constitutionality. Jefferson himself had his doubts. Neither he, however, nor any of his party took any measures to have an amendment of the Constitution to sanction it. It was indeed a measure of vital necessity, and acquiesced in by the people of all the States as such. In the national convention Gouverneu...r Morris said that the fisheries and the Mississippi were 124 NULLIFICATION, SECESSION. the two great objects of the Union. 1 Negotia- tions with Spain with reference to the naviga- tion of the Mississippi were constantly before the Congress of the Confederacy in 1787, this river being the only outlet for the products of Kentucky, Tennessee, and of parts of Western Virginia and Pennsylvania, as well as of the great then unsettled country beyond. There was a fear that the inhabitants of this western territory might ally themselves with Great Britain, because of her power to compel Spain to grant the right of way to the sea ; for it was recognized that the inhabitants of that country would and must be a part of the power that held the mouth of the great river.
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