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 The net result of the contest in the legislature was that the State Rights party was obliged to bide its time once more. During the early months of 1831 the papers simply watched Congress and exploited any indications of a hostility

.—Senate vote on state convention, 1830

to tariff reduction. They discussed nullification or convention hardly at all, but seemed to think it necessary to go back to a more primary step in the education of the people and go over again all the old arguments against the tariff. They urged