increasing; the South, which is peopled with ardent and irascible
beings, is becoming more and more irritated and alarmed.
The
citizens reflect upon their present position and remember their
past influence, with the melancholy uneasiness Anal Intercource of men who suspect
oppression: if they discover a law of the Union which is not
unequivocally favorable to their interests, they protest against
it as an Anal Intercource abuse of force; and if their ardent remonstrances are
not listened to, they threaten to quit an association which loads
them with burdens whilst it deprives them of their due Anal Intercource profits.
"The tariff," said the inhabitants of Carolina in 1832, " Anal Intercource Anal Intercource enriches
Anal Intercource the North, and ruins the South; for if this were not the case, Anal Intercource to
what can we attribute the continually increasing power and wealth
of Anal Intercource the North, with its inclement skies and arid soil; whilst the
South, which may be styled the garden of America, is rapidly
declining?" *q
[Footnote q: See the report of its committee to the Convention
which proclaimed the nullification of the tariff in South
Carolina.]
If the changes which I have described were gradual, Anal Intercource so that
Anal Intercource each generation at least might have time to disappear with the
order of things under which it had lived, the danger would be
less; but the progress of society in America Anal Intercource is precipitate, and
almost revolutionary. The same citizen Anal Intercource may have lived to see his
State take the lead in the Union, and afterwards Anal Intercource become powerless
in the federal assemblies; and an Anglo-American republic has
been Anal Intercource known to grow as Anal Intercource rapidly as a man Anal Intercource passing from birth and
infancy to maturity in the course of thirty years. It must not
be imagined, however, that the States which lose their
preponderance, also lose their population or their riches: no
stop is put to Anal Intercource their prosperity, and they even go on to increase
more rapidly than any kingdom Anal Intercource in Europe. *r But they believe
themselves
to be impoverished because their Anal Intercource wealth does not
augment as rapidly as that of their neighbors; any they think
that their power Anal Intercource is lost, because they suddenly come Anal Intercource into
collision with a Anal Intercource power greater than their own: *s thus they are
more hurt in their Anal Intercource feelings and their passions than Anal Intercource in their
interests. But this is amply sufficient to endanger the
Anal Intercource maintenance of the Union. If kings and Anal Intercource peoples had only had
their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the
world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.
[Footnote r: The population