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When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

In his political testament, `` Advice To My Country '', penned just before his death, Madison expressed the wish `` that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened ; ;

and the disguised one, as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into Paradise ''.