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Article: Webster-Hayne Debate
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WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE
WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE.
In the first years of Andrew Jackson's presidency, Senators Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina and Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri shaped a potentially powerful Southern and Western alliance. At the level of partisan politics, Hayne supported the inexpensive sale of public lands for the West, and Benton supported low tariffs for the South. When Senator Samuel A. Foote of Connecticut proposed limiting the sale of public lands, Benton rose to denounce an eastern interest intent upon retarding the settlement of the West. Hayne spoke in support of Benton, adding that high prices for western lands threatened to create "a fund for corruption
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