Abstract
South Carolinians declared protective tariffs Congress passed in 1824 and 1828 unconstitutional and unfair for placing undue burden on the South while benefiting the North. A political faction formed that saw the rights of the state as paramount and sought to protect them, to the point of rebelling against the federal government through nullification of its laws. In response, two additional groups arose: one that aimed to preserve the Union above all and one that upheld the state's rights and Union equally, urging a moderate course. Each of these three groups had newspapers to advance its views. This article studies those newspapers during the seminal year of 1830, which encompassed four key events in state and national politics that heightened the nullification debate and realigned the state's political parties. It concludes that rhetoric from all sides preyed on readers’ fear.
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