Posted on 12/03/2020 5:54:18 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 2. A quorum of both branches of Congress is present, and business will therefore commence at once. All the New-England, Pennsylvania, and nearly all the Western, New-York and Cotton State members have arrived. Senators CHESNUT and HAMMOND are not here, and will not be. South Carolina will not reappoint them nor choose successors. There are two lines of policy marked out and discussed in political circles respecting the course to be pursued by the Republican and Democratic Parties in Congress at the opening of the present Session. Among the Republicans, one is to propose compromises, and make leading conciliatory speeches, as mentioned in the dispatches yesterday; the other to maintain silence and allow the South to speak, and, if possible, let the two parties from the South discuss the matter themselves, and settle it among themselves exclusively. The Union Party in the South is strongly represented on the floor of Congress, and they having all their interests involved, can speak freely, and without fear of provoking their opponents. But it is feared that the Southern men, both for purposes of intimidation and effect, will pursue exactly the same line of policy, keeping silence and declaring, in the language of their leading orators, that "the time for words is past -- they desire and intend immediate, uncompromising action." The Union men of the South, however, will not permit this on the part of either party. They have determined to call for prompt explanations, and a settlement of the present difficulties between the North and the South, and will put both sections on the defensive, thereby making them speak. Such I find to be the opinions of leading men with whom I have conversed.
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Great comparison of nullification crisis in 1832 with 1860. Lots of details not usually mentioned, including the role of Gen. Scott in 1832.
Also noteworthy that South Carolina propagandists portrayed it as a great victory for them.
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