Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . rominent issue in the presidentialelection of 1832 was that of the protectivetariff, otherwise known as the AmericanSystem. South Carolina had virtuallythreatened to secede from the Union un
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Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . rominent issue in the presidentialelection of 1832 was that of the protectivetariff, otherwise known as the AmericanSystem. South Carolina had virtuallythreatened to secede from the Union unless appointed. She refused to take an honestpart in the 2>residential election, givingher votes for citizens who were not candi-dates. She had resolved—or rather theconspirators had resolved for her—not tobe pacified with anything less than federaldismemberment! Jackson, the chosen standard-bearer ofthe democratic party, and to which organ-ization the conspirators professedly be-longed, was re-elected; yet the malcon-tents continued to defv the government, and exhibited the falsity of their profes-sions of attachment to that party by im-mediately, when the result of the electionwas known, calling a convention of thedelegates of the people of South Carolina, at Columbia, their state capital, for arebellious purpose. In that convention, composed of poli-ticians, the professed representatives of. OtD ST.VTE HorSE AT COLCMDIA. the policy of that s}-stem should be aban-doned b^ the government. A nervousapprehension of some dire impending ca-lamity appears to have taken possession ofthe public mind, and the congressionalelections resulted unfavorably to the sys-tem. Those who loved peace in thenational household finnlly expected nowto see the smile of satisfaction on the faceof South Carolina. But thev were dis- the people took into their own handsviolent instrumentalities for the redress ofalleged grievances, which the chief con-si)irators had prescribed. Just a fortnightafter