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Virginia Free Press
Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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Nullification crisis costs South Carolina $425,000 for extra legislative session, convention, arms, and governor's fund. Augusta paper reports severe economic losses, with 20,000 citizens emigrating to the West, straining Alabama's resources and prices.
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A late Augusta (Geo.) paper says—'South Carolina would not recover her losses in 20 years, allowing that they should cease now. Her population and wealth are rushing from the State, as from a threatening conflagration. It is believed that not less than 20,000 of her citizens, of all kinds, have passed through this city on their way to the West. In consequence, the roads to Alabama are very bad, and provisions scarce and high in price. A letter from a gentleman who recently moved to that State, says he has to pay two dollars per bushel for corn, from the number of persons who have removed to that part of the country within the last three months.'
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South Carolina
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$425,000 spent on legislature, convention, arms, and governor's fund; 20,000 citizens emigrated, causing economic distress and high prices in alabama
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Nullification has cost South Carolina $425,000 for extra session of Legislature ($18,000), convention ($10,000), arms ($200,000), and $200,000 at Governor's disposal. Augusta paper reports unrecoverable losses in 20 years, population and wealth fleeing like from a conflagration, 20,000 passed through Augusta to West, roads to Alabama bad, provisions scarce and high, corn at two dollars per bushel due to recent removals.