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Letter, 1833 February 6, Oakland [Colleton County, South Carolina], to Carolina Bayard

出版	1833
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註釋Explicitly condemning the State Rights faction in South Carolina during the ongoing Nullification crisis, Lowndes reports, "We are now in a perilous and awful situation, a few ambitious men by ceaseless intrigue, have [created] a Party in this State, making the Tariff the pretext to inflame them against the General Government, have set up the most... monstrous Doctrines of State Sovereignty, in opposition of the Federal Union, & are striving to Lure the State from it." However, "a Strong Party of the best part of the Inhabitants calling themselves Unionists, have by all lawful means opposed their mad projects. [W]e and all our family are of the Union party, we love our Country, our whole Country." She acknowledged "the opposite Party styling themselves 'State Rights' have... dared the power of the General Government, yet... [we] of the Union Party feel strong in our Integrity.... we believe the People have been deceived, and led to sanction such Acts of which they are ignorant." She also believed "the Tariff has but little to do with the Excitement. [H]ad Mr. Calhoun run his way to the Presidential chair unimpeded, Mr. [James] Hamilton been Secretary at War, and Mr. Hayne not prostrated in the Senate by Mr. Webster, before whom he was nothing, or as chaff driven by the wind[,] we should never have had this opposition to Government got up."