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JACKSON, Andrew. Broadside, printed on silk. PROCLAMATION, By Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Washington, 10 December 1832. Printed by G. F. Hopkins & Son, 44 Nassau Street, New York. 16¾ x 30 in, PRINTED ON SILK, with elaborately engraved border, a few miniscule holes along edge, away from text, matted and framed
JACKSON'S NULLIFICATION PROCLAMATION, a very rare broadside printing. The Nullification crisis was a foretaste of the sectional divisions which ultimately brought on civil war. Opposition to protective tariffs enacted by Congress in 1832 grew to such intensity, particularly in the south, that in November 1832, South Carolina adopted a Nullification Ordinance proclaiming the Federal tariffs void in that state as of 1 February 1833. President Jackson responds with this blistering Proclamation, denouncing South Carolina's ordinance as treasonous, "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." While Congress granted Jackson emergency powers to employ the Army and Navy, if necessary, the crisis was narrowly averted. Before the Ordinance of Nullification went into effect, a Compromise Tariff of 1833, sponsored by Clay and acceptable to both Jackson and the South, was enacted. South Carolina promptly rescinded the Ordinance of Nullification. But the precedent lived on for the fire-eating secessionists of 1861.
JACKSON'S NULLIFICATION PROCLAMATION, a very rare broadside printing. The Nullification crisis was a foretaste of the sectional divisions which ultimately brought on civil war. Opposition to protective tariffs enacted by Congress in 1832 grew to such intensity, particularly in the south, that in November 1832, South Carolina adopted a Nullification Ordinance proclaiming the Federal tariffs void in that state as of 1 February 1833. President Jackson responds with this blistering Proclamation, denouncing South Carolina's ordinance as treasonous, "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed." While Congress granted Jackson emergency powers to employ the Army and Navy, if necessary, the crisis was narrowly averted. Before the Ordinance of Nullification went into effect, a Compromise Tariff of 1833, sponsored by Clay and acceptable to both Jackson and the South, was enacted. South Carolina promptly rescinded the Ordinance of Nullification. But the precedent lived on for the fire-eating secessionists of 1861.