Primary Sources: U.S. Presidents

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1829

"On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law. Jackson's proclamation was written in response to an ordinance issued by a South Carolina convention that declared that the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 "are unauthorized by the constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State." "

Access a selection of presidential papers online. Provided by Project Avalon at Yale.

"The Papers of Andrew Jackson is a project to collect and publish Jackson’s entire extant literary record.

The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson’s most important papers to the public in easily readable form. PDFs of all published volumes are now available for free, immediate download via the University of Tennessee’s Newfound Press. Also online is the Library of Congress’s Andrew Jackson Papers, a digital archive that provides direct access to the manuscript images of many of the Jackson documents transcribed and annotated in our volumes."

"On December 6, 1830, in a message to Congress, President Andrew Jackson called for the relocation of eastern Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River, in order to open new land for settlement by citizens of the United States. "

MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1833