Speech of Hon J W Stevenson of Kentucky On the State of the Union volume 2
Speech of Hon J W Stevenson of Kentucky On the State of the Union volume 2
J W John White Stevenson
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Mitiesand injustice of the operation of that act upon its immediate section. The legislative records of New England, at that period, will show that even they were prepared to outstrip Carolina in her purpose to break the ligaments that bound them to the Union, unless that law was repealed. The embargo act had been a favorite measure with Mr. Jefferson ; but when he saw the discord which it kindled, and the danger which it produced in the New England States, with a breast filled with patriotism,... as broad as his whole country, he surrendered his cherished policy, and the embargo was repealed. Again: in 1820, when the Union was rocked to its center, and the brazen head of the anti-slavery serpent, reared itself in open rebellion to the equality and rights of the States, compromise and concession brought healing on its wings, and the country was saved. » In 1832, when South Carolina, stung by the oppressive e?iactious of the tarifl, determined to resist its operation, and prepared herself for an issue with the Federal authority ; in that dark hour, when civil war seemed inevitable, Virginia threw herself in the breach between the Federal Government and her jealous but defiant sister, until Kentucky, in the person of her g-ieat commoner, could pour oil on the troubled waters by a modification of the obnoxious statute.
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