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HAYNE, ROBERT YOUNG (1791–1839)

HAYNE, See also:
ROBERT
ROBERT (1275—1343)
ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)
ROBERT See also:
YOUNG
YOUNG, A
YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)
YOUNG (1791–1839) , See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader, See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in St See also:

Paul's See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish, Colleton See also:

DISTRICT

district, See also:

South Carolina, on the loth of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1791. He studied See also:

law in the See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of See also:

LANGDON, JOHN (1741—1819)

Langdon Cheves(17 76–18J7)in See also:

CHARLESTON

Charleston, S.C., and in November 1812 was admitted to the See also:

bar there, soon obtaining a large practice. For a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

time during the See also:

War of 1812 against See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, he was See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain in the Third South Carolina See also:

REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

Regiment. He was a member of the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

house of the See also:

state legislature from 1814 to 1818, serving as See also:

SPEAKER

speaker in the latter See also:

YEAR

year; was See also:

ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney-See also:

general of the state from 1818 to 1822, and in 1823 was elected, as a Democrat, to the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate. Here he was conspicuous as an ardent See also:

FREE

free-trader and an uncompromising See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of " States Rights," opposed the protectionist See also:

TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff bills of 1824 and 1828, and consistently upheld the See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine that See also:

SLAVERY

slavery was a domestic institution and should be dealt with only by the individual states. In one of his speeches opposing the sending by the United States of representatives to the See also:

PANAMA

Panama See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress, he said, " The moment the federal See also:

government shall make the unhallowed See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to interfere with the domestic concerns of the states, those states will consider themselves driven from the See also:

Union." Hayne is best remembered, however, for his great debate with See also:

Daniel See also:

Webster (q.v.) in See also:

JANUARY

January 183o. The debate arose over the so-called " See also:

Foote's See also:

RESOLUTION

Resolution," introduced by Senator See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel A. Foote (1780–1846) of See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, calling for the restriction of the See also:

sale of public lands to those already in the See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market, but was concerned primarily with the relation to one another and the respect ive See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of the federal government and the individual states, Hayne contending that the constitution was essentially a compact between the states, and the See also:

NATIONAL

national government and the states, and that any state might, at will, nullify any federal law which it considered to be in contravention of that compact. He vigorously opposed the tariff of 1832, was a member of the South Carolina See also:

NULLIFICATION

Nullification See also:

Convention of November 1832, and reported the See also:

ordinance of nullification passed by that See also:

BODY

body on the 24th of November. Resigning from the Senate, he was See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of the state from See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1832 to December 1834, and as such took a strong stand against See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

Jackson, though he was more conservative than many of the nullificationists in the state. He was See also:

INTENDANT (from Lat. intendens, pres. part. of intendere, to apply the mind to, to watch over; cf. " superintendent ")

intendant (See also:

mayor) of Charleston, S.C., from 1835 to 1837, and was president of the See also:

LOUISVILLE

Louisville, See also:

CINCINNATI

Cincinnati & Charleston railway from 1837 to 1839. He died at See also:

ASHEVILLE

Asheville, N.C., on the 24th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1839.

His son, Paul See also:

Hamilton Hayne (183o–1886), was a poet of some distinction, and in 1878 published a See also:

LIFE

life of his See also:

FATHER

father. See See also:

Theodore D. Jervey, Robert Y. Hayne and his Times (New See also:

York, 1909).

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