“Americans celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, but H.L. Mencken correctly evaluated the speech, “It is poetry not logic; beauty, not sense.” Lincoln said that the soldiers sacrificed their lives “to the cause of self-determination — government of the people, by the people, for the people should not perish from the earth.” Mencken says: “It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of people to govern themselves.”
https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2002/04/do-states-have-a-right-of-secession/
I think you missed the point of my post. I was showing how a previous President responded to a threat of nullification/secession therefore establishing a precedent upon which other Presidents could base their actions on. This was Andrew Jackson’s response to South Carolina during the nullification crisis.
I would even say that Andrew Jackson was following a precedent set by George Washington in his response to the whiskey rebellion. Though the whiskey rebellion didn’t involve an entire state the same principle would have applied if it did.