In principle there was concurrence.

The President insisted that the injured party should appeal to the aggressor, and then to the courts, with the reserved right of revolution always in view and to be exercised if neither the aggressor nor the courts furnished satisfactory redress.

The President recognized the reserved right of revolution in the States, and it was a necessary incident of that right that each State might decide when the right should be exercised.

He suggested that, as justification of revolution, the Federal Government must be guilty of "a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise" of powers not granted by the Constitution, quoting from the text of the State-rights declaration by Virginia in 1798.

But in all his arguments he left the State to be the ultimate judge of the constitutionality of the Acts of the Federal Government.