...to refuse obedience to Federal powers when it felt itself unjustly treated. Jackson, observing that "to say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States is not a nation," menaced South Carolina so fiercely that it temporarily abandoned its hopes of nullifying...

...league but destroys the unity of a nation; and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union is to...

...league, but destroys the unity of a Nation, and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offence against the whole Union.... No one fellow citizens, has a higher reverence for the reserved rights of the States than the Magistrate...

...league, but destroys the unity of a nation; and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to...

...league but destroys the unity of a nation; and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to...

...league, but destroys the unity of a nation; and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to...

...league, but destroys the unity of a nation ; and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to...