" whenever the general government adopts the principle that it is the supreme power of the land, that the States are subordinate—mere provinces—that it can compel and enforce, and commence to dispense its favors with a partial hand, to tax and oppress a few States to the interest and aggrandizement of the many, or otherwise transcend its powers,—then will the days of our republic be numbered. For it is false philosophy to suppose that these States can be kept together by force. . . . But let it be the established policy of the government that it has no power over a State withdrawing from the Union when in her deliberate judgment the compact has been broken, and the others will soon cease, or rather never begin to oppress; for the Union should be an advantage to all but an injury to none."
He also disagreed that South Carolina could secede over Nullification.
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David Upton