No Treason in Resisting Oppression

They WILL Call it Treason, They ALWAYS Do

From: http://circa1865.org/2017/12/10/3091/

Some Sunday TRUTH for you ... soak it up and if you agree, not only believe it BUT let it be a conviction that you will pass to your friends, neighbors, co-workers and especially .. YOUR CHILDREN. Help the next generation understand.

"... The early ideological differences between Calhoun and Jackson became particularly evident on the question of distributing the federal surplus to the States after the national debt was paid. Jackson vigorously favored distribution; Calhoun adamantly opposed it.

For Jackson, retiring the debt, and thereby stopping the moneyed interests from employing the peoples’ funds, was an important end in itself. For Calhoun, on the other hand, retiring the debt was only a means of lowering the tariff. Once the debt was repaid, expanding federal surpluses would force the government to cut taxes. But if the surplus was distributed, the federal government would retain an excuse for high tariffs. Distribution would destroy the reason for repayment.

To Jackson, equal division [of the surplus] meant division according to population. But Calhoun considered distribution according to population completely unequal. The majority North would continue to drain away the wealth of the minority South. Jackson’s distribution would institutionalize the worst evils of Adams’ nationalism.

The increasing tension between Calhoun and Jackson became blatantly public at the April 13, 1830, Jefferson Day dinner. Glaring at Calhoun, signaling the boisterous crowd to rise, the President toasted:

 “Our Federal Union – It must be preserved!”

[Calhoun’s] reply, when it came, was an anticlimax:

“The Union – Next to our liberties most dear.”

Moments later, George McDuffie was more blunt:

“The memory of Patrick Henry: the first American statesman who had the soul to feel, and the courage to declare, in the face of armed tyranny, that there is no treason in resisting oppression.”.."

(Prelude to War, the Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836; William W. Freehling, Harper & Row, 1965, excerpts pp. 190-192)