"[T]he tariff was only the pretext and disunion & a southern confederacy the real object—the next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question."

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Politics of the United StatesEconomy of the United StatesUnited States Constitution19th century in the United StatesSouth Carolina
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Andrew Jackson, letter to Andrew Jackson Crawford, May 11, 1833, via The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 11, 1833, eds. Daniel Feller, Laura-Eve Moss, and Thomas Coens (University of Tennessee Press, 2019),