RARE 1827 Essays on Nullification Crisis in South Carolina Charleston SC Slavery

Description: THE CRISIS: OR, ESSAYS ON THE USURPATIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. By Brutus By Robert Turnbull Published Charleston: A.E. Miller, 1827. FIRST EDITION. 166 pp. Hardcover in full leather binding with gilt title on leather spine label. Corners and spine worn, boards lightly scuffed. Early ownership inscription on ffep. Light tanning and foxing throughout. Good. Series of essays written by Robert J. Turnbull (1775- 1833), advocating nullification. "In the mid-1820s Turnbull wrote a series of polemical essays, published in the CHARLESTON MERCURY under the pseudonym "Brutus," that attacked the North for regional self-interest in opposing slavery, strongly opposed protective tariffs, and staunchly defended the doctrine of states' rights. The pen name was the same that Jefferson and Madison had employed half a century earlier when writing the Federalist Papers. These and other writings were collected in what would become Turnbull's most significant work, THE CRISIS; OR, ESSAYS ON THE USURPATIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. He believed that there existed permanent economic and political conflicts of interest between the North, South, and West and that the growing movement toward nationalism would necessarily lead to the abolition of slavery. THE CRISIS attacked the notion of implied powers, which asserted that many powers not specifically given to the federal government in the constitution were in fact implied to it and should not be left to the province of each state" - ANB. HOWES T420. ANB (online). I've done my best to describe the book, but if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to send me an e-mail.

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