Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. THE CRISIS OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. ITS CAUSE, AND HOW IT SHOULD BE MET. CONTAINING THE CELEBRATED PROCLAMATION OF ANDREW JACKSON TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA NULLIFIERS; WEBSTER'S ANSWER TO HAYNE ON THE SUBJECT OF NULLIFICATION, AND SEVERAL EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN BY JOHN JAY, JAMES MADISON, AND ALEXANDER HAMILTON, PENDING THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. BY A. D. STREIGHT. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 1861. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, BY A. D. STREIGHT, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. CONTENTS. Crisis--its Cause 7 Crisis--How to Meet it 17 Constitution 17 Crittenden's Amendment 94 Jackson's Proclamation 41 Jackson's Administration compared with Buchanan's 68 Missouri Compromise 93 Missouri Compromise compared with Crittenden's Amendment 92 Oath of President 22 People--shall they rule 84 People--duty of 85 Treason--what constitutes 23 Treason--who are guilty of 23 Union--how to preserve the 81 Union--the effects of war to sustain the 83 Union--why founded--Madison and others' opinions 36 Union--utility of 24 Webster's answer to Hayne 68 TO THE FLAG OF OUR UNION, TO THE MEMORY OF THE IMMORTAL HEROES, WHO ESTABLISHED IT, AND TO THE TRUE HEARTED PATRIOTS, WHO WILL MAINTAIN IT, THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE.