Slavery was doubtless remotely one of the irritating causes that combined to work South Carolina up to a fever heat of insanity over the nullification excitement.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
This tariff bill was the first of the immediate irritating causes which induced South Carolina to go into the nullification movement.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
The debate now, however, completely left the point at issue, taking a bitterly sectional turn, and giving rise to the famous controversy between Hayne, of South Carolina, who for the first time on the floor of the Senate announced the doctrine of nullification, and Webster, who, in response to his antagonist, voiced the feeling of the Union men of the North in that wonderful and magnificent speech known ever since under the name of the "Reply to Hayne," and the calling forth of which will henceforward be Hayne's sole title to fame.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt