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CHAPTER VII

JACKSON AND NULLIFICATION (1832-33)

The State Rights men had known for a year or more that the Union men were counting much on the sympathy of the President for their views. Yet there was uncertainty as to just what he would do when the real test should come. The relations of the two parties to the President had been made entirely clear in the presidential campaign. The State Rights men were so inimical to Jackson that they were accused even of being willing to support Adams in opposition to him.^[1] Jackson's popularity, however, was so great that for some time they had to conceal much of their hostility to him.^[2] The Union men alone took part in the Baltimore nominating convention, but their opponents, when the time came to cast the vote of the state, felt not at all bound by the work of the national convention, and cast the vote

1. Mountaineer, January 28, 1832. The accusation was based on a suggestion made by the Post.
2. Journal, January 28, 1833. Calhoun Correspondence: Calhoun to S. L. Gouverneur, February 13.

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