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- GLC#
- GLC00267.386
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1860
- Author/Creator
- Porter, William Dennison, 1810-1883
- Title
- State sovereignty and the doctrine of coercion, by the Hon. Wm. D. Porter, of Charleston, S. C. together with a letter from Hon. J. K. Paulding, former Sec. of Navy.
- Place Written
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 36 p. : Height: 21.8 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Includes the instructions, "Read and send to your Neighbor" on title page. Also includes designation: "1860 Association. Tract No. 2." Porter opens with, "The recent speech of Mr. Douglas at Norfolk, in which he threatened the Southern States with military coercion in the event of secession, ought to startle and arouse the people of those States, like the blast of a hostile trumpet at midnight!" Paulding, in a letter dated 6 September 1851, discusses secession.
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