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 which the people of South Carolina aheady believed in. Three years previously, when there was something like a tariff party in the state, they had published no end of material on the tariff; but now, when some of these papers had scarcely a reader who was a tariff man, it was unnecessary.

In July and August there were numerous meetings to appoint delegates to an anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia in September. The State Rights men, who had now changed the name of their party from the State Rights and Jackson party to the State Rights and Free Trade party, were especially active at these meetings. In some of them the Nullifiers and the Anti- nullifiers clashed, although both were opposed to the tariff. While some of the Union men confessed a lack of faith in this Philadelphia meeting, some of the State Rights men contended that the promptness with which the State Rights and Free Trade party met the overtures and sent delegates showed the falsehood of the charge against them of hostility to the Union; they