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  • Southern states had seceded in response to Lincoln's election by a constitutional majority in a fair vote held under rules accepted by all parties.†   (source)
  • In December, South Carolina seceded from the Union.†   (source)
  • Suffering States would secede.†   (source)
  • He remembered the night in Arlington when the news came: secession.†   (source)
  • So they seceded.†   (source)
  • We have heard them threaten to secede so often that I formed an enthusiastic organization The American Friends for Texas Secession.†   (source)
  • Talk of New England seceding became commonplace.†   (source)
  • The south attempted to secede after Lincoln's victory because the south had different economic interests than the north and were especially concerned about Lincoln's anti-slavery stance.
  • One 2007 poll found that 13% of Vermont's population support secession from the United States.
  • The people of Serbia were upset over Kosovo's secession.
  • The Volatiles are the force behind the Secession three centuries ago.†   (source)
  • There's also Surda, which has defied him since it seceded from the Empire.†   (source)
  • "Don't forget to tell your father: Katanga has seceded.†   (source)
  • There's a legend that Cowboy Gibson did it before the Core seceded," he mumbled.†   (source)
  • Did you know Katanga has seceded from the Congo?†   (source)
  • They've declared that they're seceding from the Union, but nobody knows who's now in power.†   (source)
  • This would lead more directly to public tumult and the ruin of popular government—secessions.†   (source)
  • There was even talk of New England seceding from the union.†   (source)
  • "The central idea of secession," said Lincoln, "is the essence of anarchy."†   (source)
  • They want to be able to secede but they don't want anyone to want them to.†   (source)
  • And so the danger of immediate secession and bloodshed passed.†   (source)
  • The time was ripe for secession, and few were prepared to speak for union.†   (source)
  • Pro-secession, pro-Southern rebels began mailing death threats to Lincoln before he took office in 1861.†   (source)
  • If Maryland had seceded and become the twelfth star on the Confederate flag, the Union would have been in grave danger.†   (source)
  • When CEO Yevshensky allowed King Billy of Asquith to recolonize the planet, it almost precipitated a true secession of AIs from the Web.†   (source)
  • Maryland, although it did not secede from the Union and join the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War, remained a hotbed of secessionists.†   (source)
  • But the AIs didn't secede.†   (source)
  • They also believed that if the national government disagreed with that right, Southern states had the right to secede.†   (source)
  • The Als had peacefully seceded from human control more than three centuries ago-before my time-and while they continued to serve the Hegemony as allies by advising the All Thing, monitoring the dataspheres, occasionally using their predictive abilities to help us avoid major mistakes or natural disasters, the TechnoCore generally went about its own indecipherable and distinctly nonhuman business in privacy.†   (source)
  • The conflict had begun long before over the right to own slaves and states' right to secede, that is, to leave the Union if they disagreed with the government.†   (source)
  • So while I slept the Hegemony became a formal entity, the Worldweb was spun to something close to its final shape, the All Thing took its democratic place among the list of humanity's benevolent despots, the TechnoCore seceded from human service and then offered its help as an ally rather than a slave, and the Ousters retreated to darkness and the role of Nemesis… but all these things had been creeping toward critical mass even before I was frozen into my ice coffin between the pork…†   (source)
  • As he did, he remembered the chapter in question; it was the one devoted to the aftermath of the Riders' secession from the elves, following the elves' brief war with the humans.†   (source)
  • It caused such a disagreement between Anurin and Queen Dellanir that Anurin seceded from our government and established the Riders on Vroengard as an independent entity.†   (source)
  • We believe the task preoccupied him for the main part of the next forty years, during which time he paid little attention to the affairs of Alagaesia-which is why the people of Surda were able to secede from the Empire.†   (source)
  • In February, the states that had seceded formed a new union called the Confederate States of America.†   (source)
  • There were districts that rose in blind rebellion, arrested the local officials, expelled the agents of Washington, killed the tax collectors-then, announcing their secession from the country, went on to the final extreme of the very evil that had destroyed them, as if fighting murder with suicide: went on to seize all property within their reach, to declare community bondage of all to all, and to perish within a week, their meager loot consumed, in the bloody hatred of all for all, in…†   (source)
  • On the eve of secession, a young lawyer in Shreveport looked forward to "a great cotton slave Republic—with a future the most auspicious that ever waited on earthly government."†   (source)
  • If [secession] can prosper under such auspices surely the downfall of civilization like that which devastated Rome has returned to dessolate the world.†   (source)
  • Like Lincoln, many northern soldiers saw secession as a deadly challenge to the foundation of law and order on which all societies must rest if they are not to degenerate into anarchy.†   (source)
  • In 1861 Jefferson Davis justified secession as an act of self-defense against the Black Republicans, whose purpose to exclude slavery from the territories would make "property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless …. thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars."†   (source)
  • Because, said northern soldiers almost as if in echo of Abraham Lincoln, once admit that a state can secede at will, and republican government by majority rule would come to an end.†   (source)
  • Admit the right of the seceding states to break up the Union at pleasure …. and how long will it be before the new confederacies created by the first disruption shall be resolved into still smaller fragments and the continent become a vast theater of civil war, military license, anarchy and despotism?†   (source)
  • It retains the right to secede at will.†   (source)
  • "A sentiment of servility," snapped the press; and Governor Houston was shoved aside as a Secession Convention was called.†   (source)
  • We have heard them threaten to secede so often that I formed an enthusiastic organization The American Friends for Texas Secession.†   (source)
  • "Some of you laugh to scorn the idea of bloodshed as the result of secession," he cried, "but let me tell you what is coming.†   (source)
  • Houston's speech in Waco denouncing secession was answered by the explosion of a keg of powder behind the hotel in which he slept unharmed.†   (source)
  • His prewar career reached its climax in 1861 when he drafted the ordinance of secession dissolving Mississippi's ties with the Union.†   (source)
  • At first he shared the views of those critics and historians who scoffed at the possibility of secession in 1850.†   (source)
  • On the day the Ordinance of Secession was to be adopted, Sam Houston sat on the platform, grimly silent, his presence renewing the courage of those few friends of Union who remained in the hall.†   (source)
  • Returning to his ranch in Texas, the doughty ex-Senator found he was unable to retire when the Governor who had defeated him two years previously was threatening to lead the state into secession.†   (source)
  • Nor had many Senators forgotten that nearly twenty years earlier Lamar was an extreme sectionalist Congressman, who had resigned his seat to draft the Mississippi Ordinance of Secession.†   (source)
  • And with telling logic and remarkable foresight he bitterly attacked the idea of "peaceable secession": Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle.†   (source)
  • That secession did not occur in 1850 instead of 1861 is due in great part to Daniel Webster, who was in large measure responsible for the country's acceptance of Henry Clay's compromise.†   (source)
  • And so, in 1820, 1833 and 1850 he initiated, hammered and charmed through reluctant Congresses the three great compromises that preserved the Union until 1861, by which time the strength of the North was such that secession was doomed to failure.†   (source)
  • Only the Clay Compromise, Daniel Webster decided, could avert secession and civil war; and he wrote a friend that he planned "to make an honest truth-telling speech and a Union speech, and discharge a clear conscience."†   (source)
  • For his voice from the past on behalf of Union was one of the deciding factors that prevented Missouri from yielding to all the desperate efforts to drive her into secession along with her sister slave states.†   (source)
  • As sentiment grew overwhelmingly in favor of secession during the heated Presidental campaign of 1860, Governor Houston could only implore his impatient constituents to wait and see what Mr. Lincoln's attitude would be, if elected.†   (source)
  • Oblivious to the threat of death, Andrew Johnson toured the state, attempting in vain to stem the tide against secession, and finally becoming the only Southern Sen-ator who refused to secede with his state.†   (source)
  • On February 23, Texas voted for secession by a large margin; and on March 2, the anniversary of Houston's birthday and Texan independence, the special convention reassembled at Austin and declared that Texas had seceded.†   (source)
  • But the Secession Convention leaders, recognized by the Legislature and aided by the desertion of the Union commander in Texas, could not be stopped, and their headlong rush into secession was momentarily disturbed only by the surprise appearance of the Governor they hated but feared.†   (source)
  • "To those who tell of his wonderful charge up the hill at San Jacinto," said the historian Wharton, "I say it took a thousand times more courage when he stalked into the Secession Convention at Austin and alone defied and awed them."†   (source)
  • And in his last great address to the Senate, read for him on March 4, only a few short weeks before his death, while he sat by too feeble to speak, he declared, "The South will be forced to choose between abolition and secession."†   (source)
  • When, encouraged by the magic of Houston's presence, James W. Throckmorton cast one of the seven votes against secession, he was loudly and bitterly hissed; and rising in his place he made the memorable reply, "When the rabble hiss, well may patriots tremble.†   (source)
  • And the peroration of his reply to Senator Hayne of South Carolina, when secession had threatened twenty years earlier, was a national rallying cry memorized by every schoolboy—"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"†   (source)
  • Many deny that secession would have occurred in 1850 without such compromises; and others maintain that subsequent events proved eventual secession was inevitable regardless of what compromises were made.†   (source)
  • Finally, Houston had been the first prominent Senator to attack Calhoun's opposition to the Clay Compromise of 1850, quoting the Scripture to label those threatening secession as mere "raging waves of sea, foaming out their own shame…… " Think you, sir, after the difficulties Texans have encountered to get into the Union, that you can whip them out of it?†   (source)
  • Instead of speaking of the possibility or utility of secession, instead of dwelling in those caverns of darkness, …. let us enjoy the fresh air of liberty and union…… Let us make our generation one of the strongest and brightest links in that golden chain which is destined, I fondly believe, to grapple the people of all the states to this Constitution for ages to come.†   (source)
  • The Rev. Theodore Parker, heedless of the dangers of secession, who had boasted of harboring a fugitive slave in his cellar and writing his sermons with a sword over his ink stand and a pistol in his desk "loaded and ready for defense," denounced Webster in merciless fashion from his pulpit, an attack he would continue even after Webster's death: "No living man has done so much," he cried, "to debauch the conscience of the nation…… I know of no deed in American history done by a son of…†   (source)
  • During the critical month preceding Webster's speech, six Southern states, each to secede ten years later, approved the aims of the Nashville Convention and appointed delegates.†   (source)
  • Oblivious to the threat of death, Andrew Johnson toured the state, attempting in vain to stem the tide against secession, and finally becoming the only Southern Sen-ator who refused to secede with his state.†   (source)
  • On February 23, Texas voted for secession by a large margin; and on March 2, the anniversary of Houston's birthday and Texan independence, the special convention reassembled at Austin and declared that Texas had seceded.†   (source)
  • Andrew Johnson, the courageous if untactful Tennessean who had been the only Southern Member of Congress to refuse to secede with his state, had committed himself to the policies of the Great Emancipator to whose high station he had succeeded only by the course of an assassin's bullet.†   (source)
  • On January 9,1861, Mississippi passed the ordinance of secession.†   (source)
  • I've never gotten so tired of any one word in my life as 'war,' unless it's 'secession.'†   (source)
  • Seven states of the deep South had seceded.†   (source)
  • I didn't believe in secession," said Ashley and his voice shook with anger.†   (source)
  • He didn't believe in secession and he hated the war and—"†   (source)
  • If Gerald once got on the subject of war and secession, it would be hours before he relinquished it.†   (source)
  • But when Georgia seceded, I went with her.†   (source)
  • It has changed hands by secession often, by siege once, by treachery twice, but never by assault On this tower the look-out hoved.†   (source)
  • This Lincoln suppressed secession and refused to acknowledge that the right of revolution he had so boldly accepted belonged to the South.†   (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)
  • Blindness to life, secession, unreceptivity, a dull wall of anxious, overprotected flesh, ignorant of the subtlety of God or Nature and unfeeling toward its beauty.†   (source)
  • He had never been an irascible man and before war was actually declared and Mississippi seceded, his acts and speeches of protest had been not only calm but logical and quite sensible.†   (source)
  • As soon as troops began to appear in Jefferson he closed his store and kept it closed all during the period that soldiers were being mobilised and drilled, not only then but later, after the regiment was gone, whenever casual troops would bivouac for the night in passing, refusing to sell any goods for any price not only to the military but, so it was told, to the families not only of soldiers but of men or women who had supported secession and war only in talk, opinion.†   (source)
  • Gilbert had opposed secession, writing to Cass: "The fools, there is not a factory for arms in the state.†   (source)
  • As Professor James G. Randall has observed, the logic of secession demanded that the Confederates take the fort or that the Union abandon it.†   (source)
  • She was still doing that when Mississippi seceded and when the first Confederate uniforms began to appear in Jefferson where Colonel Sartoris and Sutpen were raising the regiment which departed in '61, with Sutpen, second in command, riding at Colonel Sartoris' left hand, on the black stallion named out of Scott, beneath the regimental colors which he and Sartoris had designed and which Sartoris' womenfolks had sewed together out of silk dresses.†   (source)
  • Not only did the administration refuse to issue an injunction to the slaves to free themselves and cease working for the secession cause, butit even withheld freedom from the blacks in those regions where its armies were penetrating the South.†   (source)
  • To order Anderson to withdraw Fort Sumter's garrison at the demand of the Confederates was a tremendous concession, which Lincoln actually considered but rejected; it would be an implicit acknowledgment of the legality of secession, and the Union would, by his own recognition, be at an end; the moral stock of the Confederacy would go soaring.†   (source)
  • Secession, war—these words long since had become acutely boring to Scarlett from much repetition, but now she hated the sound of them, for they meant that the men would stand there for hours haranguing one another and she would have no chance to corner Ashley.†   (source)
  • There was no more unanimity in the North on waging war to keep the Union than there had been in the South on seceding to destroy it.†   (source)
  • So general was this sentiment that when the aged John J. Crittenden of Kentucky introduced into Congress on the day after Bull Run a resolution declaring that the war was not being waged for conquest or subjugation nor to interfere with "the established institutions" of the seceded states, even Republicans of Jacobin leanings were afraid to vote against it.†   (source)
  • I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would have ruined the Christmas parties, too.†   (source)
  • The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.†   (source)
  • When Kansas refused to secede to the South at the beginning of the Rebellion, Tom's father, who was a rebel, joined Quantrill's notorious band of guerillas.†   (source)
  • He had been at Oxford during the movement which ended in the secession from the Established Church of Edward Manning, and he felt a certain sympathy for the Church of Rome.†   (source)
  • The crises and victories and secessions in Roman history were handed on to him in the trite words IN TANTO DISCRIMINE and he had tried to peer into the social life of the city of cities through the words IMPLERE OLLAM DENARIORUM which the rector had rendered sonorously as the filling of a pot with denaries.†   (source)
  • The period during which Mr. Buchanan retained office, after the election of Mr. Lincoln, from November, 1860, to March, 1861, was that which enabled the seceding States of the South to complete their preparations for the Civil War, and the Executive Government was paralyzed.†   (source)
  • Valentin de Bellegarde's announcement of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father's domicile and his irreverent reflections upon the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave a catastrophe, received a practical commentary in the fact that M. Nioche was slow to seek another interview with his late pupil.†   (source)
  • Mr. Yates, who was trying to make himself agreeable to Julia, found her gloom less impenetrable on any topic than that of his regret at her secession from their company; and Mr. Rushworth, having only his own part and his own dress in his head, had soon talked away all that could be said of either.†   (source)
  • The time at any moment was a number of varying doctrines professed by the different hamlets, some of them having originally grown up from a common root, and then become divided by secession, some having been alien from the beginning.†   (source)
  • "Such a little fish as me can swim in any bucket," he used to remark, and a member of the house from which old Sedley had seceded was very glad to make use of Mr. Clapp's services and to reward them with a comfortable salary.†   (source)
  • It has not been openly assailed, no conspiracy has been formed to make war on it, but its followers one by one noiselessly secede—day by day a few of them abandon it, until last it is only professed by a minority.†   (source)
  • The President might also appoint assistant commissioners in the seceded States, and to all these offices military officials might be detailed at regular pay.†   (source)
  • On May 19 the new government—for a government it really was—issued its constitution; commissioners were to be appointed in each of the seceded states, who were to take charge of "all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen," and all relief and rations were to be given by their consent alone.†   (source)
  • This is the Southern theory of the Constitution, and the whole case of the South in favor of secession.†   (source)
  • Well said, Loyola!" alternately; he promised Mole a bishopric if he would come over, and vowed he would use all his influence to get Trail a cardinal's hat if he would secede.†   (source)
  • *y [Footnote y: [This chapter is one of the most curious and interesting portions of the work, because it embraces almost all the constitutional and social questions which were raised by the great secession of the South and decided by the results of the Civil War.†   (source)
  • In 1861 nine States, with a population of 8,753,000, seceded, and maintained for four years a resolute but unequal contest for independence, but they were defeated.†   (source)
  • Legislative Powers *m [Footnote m: [In this chapter the author points out the essence of the conflict between the seceding States and the Union which caused the Civil War of 1861.†   (source)
  • Does it sound with trumpet-voice the proud victory of the Union in that secession war?†   (source)
  • Lastly, it would facilitate and foster the baneful practice of secessions; a practice which has shown itself even in States where a majority only is required; a practice subversive of all the principles of order and regular government; a practice which leads more directly to public convulsions, and the ruin of popular governments, than any other which has yet been displayed among us.†   (source)
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