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Nullification Controversy in South Carolina
The net result of the contest in the legislature was that the State Rights party was obliged to bide its time once more.[1] During the early months of 1831 the papers simply watched Congress and exploited any indications of a hostility
Map II.—Senate vote on state convention, 1830
to tariff reduction. They discussed nullification or convention hardly at all, but seemed to think it necessary to go back to a more primary step in the education of the people and go over again all the old arguments against the tariff. They urged
- ↑ Hammond Papers: J. Hamilton to Hammond, February 5, 1831.
