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[citation needed] Some Nullifiers joined the newly formed Whig Party after the 1832 election, attracted by its opposition to Jackson and its depiction of Jackson as a monarch. [2] After President Andrew Jackson left office, Calhoun and most of his followers rejoined the Democratic Party. [citation needed]
The conservatives were unable to match the radicals in organization or leadership. [52] The state elections of 1832 were "charged with tension and bespattered with violence," and "polite debates often degenerated into frontier brawls." Unlike the previous year's election, the choice was clear between nullifiers and unionists.
Nevertheless, the South strongly resisted the Tariff of 1828 for several reasons. Firstly, they were forced to pay higher prices on goods that the region did not produce, and secondly, the reduced importation of British goods made it difficult for the British to pay for cotton imported from the South.
Both factions were extremely similar, supporting slavery, the War of 1812, Indian removal, and opposing protective tariffs, internal improvements, and the national bank. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] The Troup party were radicals [ 33 ] who leaned more towards states' rights while the Clarkites were closer to the Union. [ 34 ]
The Nullifiers were made up of former members of the Democratic-Republican Party who had largely supported Jackson at the previous election, but were much stauncher proponents of states' rights, which ultimately led them to repudiate Jackson during his first term.
But no one argues that Penny’s jurors were a gone-rogue bunch of wayward nullifiers. Instead, many New Yorkers — even those who favored his conviction — view the verdict as the result of ...
His preoccupation with economic growth for Virginia and how the Jackson plans were threatening this made him different from other southern "nullifiers", whose primary fear was the abolition of slavery. [31] Floyd opposed slavery purely for economic reasons, as he viewed it as inefficient.
“That’s their job,” he said, to find those nullifiers and keep them on the jury, and in this case, there is a real possibility of it happening.