And the law-making power usually happens to be that victim.

As the distress of the South increased, the belief that Federal legislation was responsible for it increased likewise.

The spread and deepening of this conviction in the Southern States precipitated among them an ominous crisis in their attachment to the Union.

Nullification and an embittered sectionalism was the hateful legacy bequeathed to the republic by the tariff controversy.

It left the South in a hyper-sensitive state in all matters relating to her domestic interests.