Many people expected the states ' rights Jackson to side with Hayne . However , once the debate shifted to secession and nullification , Jackson sided with Webster . On April 13 , 1830 , at the traditional Democratic Party celebration honoring Thomas Jefferson 's birthday , Jackson chose to make his position clear . In a battle of toasts , Hayne proposed , " The Union of the States , and the Sovereignty of the States . " Jackson 's response , when his turn came , was , " Our Federal Union : It must be preserved . " To those attending , the effect was dramatic . Calhoun would respond with his own toast , in a play on Webster 's closing remarks in the earlier debate , " The Union . Next to our liberty , the most dear . " Finally , Martin Van Buren would offer , " Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concession . Through their agency the Union was established . The patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it . " Van Buren wrote in his autobiography of Jackson 's toast , " The veil was rent – the incantations of the night were exposed to the light of day . " Senator Thomas Hart Benton , in his memoirs , stated that the toast " electrified the country . " Jackson would have the final words a few days later , when a visitor from South Carolina asked if Jackson had any message he wanted relayed to his friends back in the state . Jackson 's reply was : Other issues than the tariff were still being decided . In May 1830 , Jackson vetoed the Maysville Road Bill , an important internal-improvements program ( especially to Kentucky and Henry Clay ) , and then followed this with additional vetoes of other such projects shortly before Congress adjourned at the end of May . Clay would use these vetoes to launch his presidential campaign . In 1831 , the rechartering of the Bank of the United States , with Clay and Jackson on opposite sides , reopened a long-simmering problem . This issue was featured at the December 1831 National Republican convention in Baltimore , which nominated Henry Clay for president , and the proposal to recharter was formally introduced into Congress on January 6 , 1832 . The Calhoun-Jackson split entered the center stage when Calhoun , as Vice President presiding over the Senate , cast the tie-breaking vote to deny Martin Van Buren the post of minister to England . Van Buren was subsequently selected as Jackson 's running mate at the 1832 Democratic National Convention held in May
1832 Democratic National Convention
1832 Democratic National Convention
Nullification Crisis