s for their peculiar institutions than
exist under the general government._

"'This project led to the invention of a theory of political
economy, which was maintained with an ingenuity and perseverance
worthy of a better cause, founded on the assumption that all imports
are, in effect, direct taxes upon exports. So indefatigable were the
promulgators of this theory, that the whole South was made to
believe that a protective tariff was a system of plunder levied upon
their productions of cotton, rice, and tobacco, which constituted
the bulk of our exports to foreign markets.'"

Mr. Adams then proceeds to state that the principles of nullification
were never more inflexibly maintained, never more inexorably pursued,
than they had been by all that portion of the South which had given
them countenance, from the day of the death of William Henry Harrison
to the present, and that nullification is the creed of the executive
mansion at Washington, the acting President's _conscience_, and the
woof of all his vetoes.

"Nullification," he adds, "portentous and fatal as it is to the
prospects and welfare of this Union, is not the only instrument of
Southern domination wielded by the executive arm at Washington. The
dismemberment of our neighboring republic of Mexico, and the acquisition
of an immense portion of her territories, was a gigantic and darling
project of Andrew Jackson, and is another instrument wielded for the
same purpose.

"Within five weeks after the proclamation of the constitution of the
Republic of Texas followed the battle of San Jacinto; and from that
day the struggles of the Southern politicians, who ruled the
councils of this nation, were for upwards of two years unremitting,
and unrestrained by any principles of honor, honesty, and truth:
openly avowed, and audaciously proclaimed, whenever they dared;
clandestinely pursued, under delusive masks and false colors,
whenever the occasion required.

"No sooner was the event of the battle of San Jacinto known than
memorials and resolutions, from various parts of the Union, were
poured in upon Congress, calling upon that body for the immediate
recognition of the independence of the Republic of Texas. Many of
these memorials and resolutions came from the free states, and one
of them from the Legislature of Connecticut, then blindly devoted to
the rank Southern, sect