THE CRISIS
OF
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE
IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
ITS CAUSE,
AND HOW IT SHOULD BE MET.
CONTAINING THE CELEBRATED PROCLAMATION OF ANDREW
JACKSON TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA NULLIFIERS; WEBSTER’S
ANSWER TO HAYNE ON THE SUBJECT OF
NULLIFICATION, AND SEVERAL EXTRACTS
FROM LETTERS WRITTEN BY JOHN JAY,
JAMES MADISON, AND ALEXANDER
HAMILTON, PENDING THE ADOPTION
OF THE CONSTITUTION.
BY A. D. STREIGHT.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1861.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-one,
BY A. D. STREIGHT,
In the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the
District of Indiana.
| Crisis—its Cause | 7 |
| Crisis—How to Meet it | 17 |
| Constitution | 17 |
| Crittenden’s Amendment | 94 |
| Jackson’s Proclamation | 41 |
| Jackson’s Administration compared with Buchanan’s | 68 |
| Missouri Compromise | 93 |
| Missouri Compromise compared with Crittenden’s Amendment | 92 |
| Oath of President | 22 |
| People—shall they rule | 84 |
| People—duty of | 85 |
| Treason—what constitutes | 23 |
| Treason—who are guilty of | 23 |
| Union—how to preserve the | 81 |
| Union—the effects of war to sustain the | 83 |
| Union—why founded—Madison and others’ opinions | 36 |
| Union—utility of | 24 |
| Webster’s answer to Hayne | 68 |
TO THE FLAG OF OUR UNION,
TO THE MEMORY OF THE IMMORTAL HEROES,
WHO ESTABLISHED IT,
AND TO THE TRUE HEARTED PATRIOTS,
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