Excerpt from The Sectional Struggle: An Account of the Troubles Between the North and the South, From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Civil War; First Period Ending With the Compromise of 1833, Part Concerning the Early Tariffs and Nullification The history of the relations between the North and the South is varied in details and profoundly interesting. No chapters of political history have a greater charm for stu dents of government, and certainly to the American nothing in human history yields so rich a fruitage. I have thought that a work separated from the general political history of the United States and devoted exclusively to this special field would not be without utility. Such a work, written in a plain style and adapted to popular wants, but with a critical purpose, - a work at once full in the major essen tials and succinct in the minor, - I have endeavored to con struct, with infinite care as to data and great catholicity in the handling of vexed questions. The imposing collection of books, pamphlets, documents, periodicals, and news papers in the Library of Congress, including the debates and journals of Congress, the reports and digests of de cisions in the United States courts, and State histories, legislative proceedings, etc., has been drawn upon for original sources of information, very little use having been made of the general histories of the republic, except to supply such materials as could not otherwise be obtained. The general plan of the work is to treat events in classes, topically, as far as practicable, but there is a sequence in the events of each subdivision. The book, as first prepared for publication, opens with some account of the colonies, their origin, their mental and moral characteristics, their religion, their polity, their civilization, their differences from, as well as their likenesses to, each other. Following are a history of the origin of the republic of republics, including the adoption of the Constitution of the United States; a critical review of early parties; a summary ao count Of early movements for disintegrating the Union; a chapter on slavery North and South before 1820; several chapters on the great compromise of that year, agreed to finally in 1821; the relations of the Federal judiciary with the individual States; the campaigns of 1824 and 1828. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.