[Grand Old Partisan]

To give Andrew Jackson his due, he did say to the nullifiers from South Carolina, his home state:

"If one drop of blood be shed in defiance of the United States Government, I will hang the first man of them I can get my hands on to the first tree I can find."

And still, neo-Confederates complain about Abraham Lincoln!

[LS]

Well, the message to take from the nullification controversy is that here was the BIGGEST example of the negative impact of the tariff . . . and yet ONLY South Carolina got upset, and even then, not enough to secede. (Note that had the South seceded in 1829-32, there was no way Jackson would have had enough troops to attain victory.)

But the tariff was NOT the issue that concerned southerners---oh, it was a pain in the rectum, but nothing serious enough to fight over. But SLAVERY . . . well, that was different. The "Tariff of Abominations" shows clearly that the tariff was NOT the issue that cause the South to secede.