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Sale 2708 - Lot 162

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PRESIDENTS--1832.) The Proclamation of Andrew Jackson, President, to the People of the United States. Broadside on silk, 28½ x 21½ inches; uncut, tack holes in margins, one-inch area of loss in upper left margin, light folds, generally minimal wear; encapsulated in mylar and matted. New York: E. Conrad, 10 December 1832
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This proclamation was issued at the peak of the Nullification Crisis. Also known as "Proclamation to the People of South Carolina," it was written by Secretary of State Edward Livingston and issued under Andrew Jackson's name. South Carolina had decided to ignore federal revenue laws and was contemplating secession. Jackson took a firm stand against this.

The key passage is here printed in all capitals near the top of the second column: "I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, 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."

Not in Collins, Threads of History, although a similar Boston printing of the same speech appears as #79.

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