The Union was under siege. South Carolinian firebreathers were thundering defiance against federal law and federal authority, threatening armed resistance and touting each state’s right to nullify ...

On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson wrote to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority. He closed his letter with the ...

If you’ve been downtown, you’ve undoubtedly seen him, the dark silhouette of a cloaked figure looming 80-feet over the Holy City skyline and facing the busy street that bears his name: John C. Calhoun ...

COLUMBIA — The message was pretty simple. It was written in all-capitalized white letters on blue shirts: "NULLIFY." About 50 people, many of them wearing those shirts, gathered in the S.C. Statehouse ...

Following the election of many states-rights advocates to South Carolina’s legislature, the state responded to Henry Clay’s tariff of 1832 by calling for a convention to denounce the tax. At the ...

In 1832, out of patience with federal tariffs that raised the prices its farmers paid for manufactured goods, South Carolina banned collection of the tariffs. A state convention said it could render ...