Of the hostility of nullification to the prosperity of the free states he thus speaks: "The root of the doctrine of nullification is that if the internal improvement of the country should be left to the legislative management of the national government, and the proceeds of the sales of the public lands should be applied as a perpetual and self-accumulating fund for that purpose, the blessings unceasingly showered upon the people by this process would so grapple the affections of the people to the national authority, that it would, in process of time, overshadow that of the state governments, and settle the Preponderancy of power in the free states; and then the undying worm of conscience twinges with terror for the fate of the peculiar institution.
"Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams."
Josiah Quincy
We were told, however, by our Chinese attendants, that certain mysterious societies did exist in some of the provinces, whose chief object was to overturn the Tartar government; that they held secret meetings, in which they gave vent to their complaints against Tartar Preponderancy, revived the memory of ancient glory, brooded over present injuries, and meditated revenge.
"Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton"
John Barrow
The office of Vice-President, a station of high dignity, but of little other than contingent power, had been usually, by their indulgence, conceded to a citizen of the other section; but even this political courtesy was superseded at the election before the last, and both the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States were, by the Preponderancy of slaveholding votes, bestowed upon citizens of two adjoining and both slaveholding States.
"An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans"
Lydia Maria Child
