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secession
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  • This chance may soon come, as I understand that the prospects for a peaceful resolution of the current differences between North and South are not hopeful, and the Southern States talk seriously of secession.†  (source)
  • I've never gotten so tired of any one word in my life as 'war,' unless it's 'secession.'†  (source)
  • Katanga had once tried to secede, after all.†  (source)
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  • "The central idea of secession," said Lincoln, "is the essence of anarchy."†  (source)
  • In December, South Carolina seceded from the Union.†  (source)
  • One of those towns, called Poison, tried to secede (that means quit, I looked it up) from the rez.†  (source)
  • There was even talk of New England seceding from the union.†  (source)
  • This would lead more directly to public tumult and the ruin of popular government—secessions.†  (source)
  • You just let one of them get married or get into trouble without being married, and right then and there is where she secedes from the woman race and species and spends the balance of her life trying to get joined up with the man race.†  (source)
  • He remembered the night in Arlington when the news came: secession.†  (source)
  • So they seceded.†  (source)
  • The Sergeant-President, an uncouth, barbaric man, had only one thing in common with the Emperor: he'd never let Eritrea secede.†  (source)
  • Maryland was as Confederate as a state could be without actually seceding.†  (source)
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