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The assertion having been repeatedly made, by various writers in the Consolidation journals of this city, and throughout the country, that the rightful and peaceable, though much vituperated, State remedy of Nullification had never been in reality recognized, vindicated, or enforced, by any of the States of this Union; and, further, that it was not until the adoption by the State Rights Party here, in 1827–'28 of the so called "Carolina Doctrines," that this legitimate exercise of State Sovereignty was ever even heard of, or known; I have in consequence, and in refutation of these unfounded declarations, thought it proper to analyse, and collect for publication the several instances in which this Safety Valve, (if I may so say), of the growing Usurpations of our General Government—this antiseptic conservative of our sacred Constitution—has been called into use by the Legislatures of the States; and to show that whether it be for good or for evil has hitherto depended—as it always must depend—upon the propriety of the occasion, and the justice of the cause.

HAMPDEN.

Charleston, October 1st, 1831.