THE CRISIS: OR, ESSAYS ON THE USURPATIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. By Brutus

Charleston: A.E. Mille, 1827. 166pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Corners and spine worn, boards lightly stained. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Light tanning and foxing throughout. Good. A series of essays written by Robert J. Turnbull (1775-1833), advocating nullification. "In the mid-1820s Turnbull wrote a series of polemical essays, published in the CHARLESTON MERCURY under the pseudonym 'Brutus,' that attacked the North for regional self-interest in opposing slavery, strongly opposed protective tariffs, and staunchly defended the doctrine of states' rights. The pen name was the same that Jefferson and Madison had employed half a century earlier when writing the Federalist Papers. These and other writings were collected in what would become Turnbull's most significant work, THE CRISIS; OR, ESSAYS ON THE USURPATIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. He believed that there existed permanent economic and political conflicts of interest between the North, South, and West and that the growing movement toward nationalism would necessarily lead to the abolition of slavery. THE CRISIS attacked the notion of implied powers, which asserted that many powers not specifically given to the federal government in the constitution were in fact implied to it and should not be left to the province of each state" - ANB. HOWES T420. ANB (online).