{"id":10527,"date":"2016-06-20T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/pinckney-maria-henrietta\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:15:17","slug":"pinckney-maria-henrietta","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/pinckney-maria-henrietta\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinckney, Maria Henrietta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer. Maria Pinckney was the eldest daughter of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Sarah \u201cSally\u201d Middleton. She is notable for writing a defense of nullification entitled <em>The Quintessence of Long Speeches, Arranged as a Political Catechism. <\/em>Pinckney published the \u201cNullification Catechism\u201d in Charleston in 1830, two years after the South Carolina General Assembly issued John C. Calhoun\u2019s \u201cExposition and Protest.\u201d The declaration asserted that the states had the right to nullify \u201cunconstitutional, unequal, and oppressive\u201d laws enacted by the federal government, in particular the 1828 \u201cTariff of Abominations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her tract Pinckney posed a series of thirty-four questions and answers designed to summarize the southern case for nullification, which she defined as \u201cthe Veto of a Sovereign State on an unconstitutional law of Congress.\u201d Pinckney asked, \u201cDid the States, in forming the Constitution, divest themselves of any part of their Sovereignty?\u201d and she answered firmly, \u201cOf not a particle.\u201d The refusal of the southern states to accept unjust tariffs was not rebellion because rebellion \u201cis the resistance of an <em>inferior <\/em>to the lawful authority of a <em>superior. <\/em>A child may rebel against a parent\u2013a slave against his master\u2013citizens against the government, and colonies against the mother-country\u2013but a State cannot rebel; because one sovereign cannot rebel against another, for all Sovereigns are equal.\u201d States and federal governments should be able to coexist, she argued, but Washington, D.C., personified by \u201cDaniel Webster &amp; Co.,\u201d was \u201ccontinually wandering out of the sphere of its legitimacy, and usurping powers\u201d previously understood to be held by the states. Pinckney did not think, however, that South Carolina\u2019s assertion of her sovereignty would lead to civil war. \u201cThe General Government would not put itself so completely in the wrong,\u201d she stated, \u201cas to consecrate its Usurpation by the blood of those it shall have attempted to oppress.\u201d In its \u201chour of peril,\u201d she called on South Carolinians to follow the example of \u201cthe patriot band who achieved the Revolution\u201d of 1776 and their descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Pinckney never married. After the death of her father\u2019s second wife, Mary Stead, in 1812, Pinckney and her sister Harriott took on the role of hostess for him. Maria Pinckney died on May 13, 1836, and was buried in St. Michael\u2019s Churchyard in Charleston.<\/p>\n<p>Pinckney, Maria. <em>The Quintessence of Long Speeches, Arranged as a Political Catechism. <\/em>Charleston, S.C.: A. E. Miller, 1830.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer. 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