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state action occasionally, when they believed they could point to something of striking value to show the folly of expecting anything from Congress.
Early in the session a letter from a South Carolina congressman[1] was published to prove that the
Map III.—House vote on state convention, 1830
tariff supporters were "feeling power and forgetting right." Resolutions to inquire into the expediency of reducing various duties were rejected by large votes. This was especially galling
- ↑ Mercury, January 21, 1831; letter by Warren R. Davis, December 13, 1830.
