The War of Secession shook the Republic to its foundations; but from it the North rose with fresh vigor, and rapidly developed in growth and ambition, with the ensuing commercial and industrial conditions which we encounter to-day.
The war ofsecession found California wavering between the Stars and Stripes and the Stars and Bars.
Says Benton himself: "At the time of its first appearance the right of secession was repulsed and repudiated by the Democracy generally.
In discussing this bill he asserted that Congress, in refusing to pass it, would be cooeperating with the Abolitionists; and then he went on to threaten as usual that in such case nullification or secession would become necessary.
The New Englanders were not yet aware, however, of the importance of the secession movements, and paid little heed to the warnings that were to be so fully justified by the events of the next few years.
Up to Mr. Pierce's administration the plan had been defensive, that is to say, to make the secession of the South a measure of self-defense against the abolition encroachments and crusades of the North.
The Danes may tolerate a hint of secessionon the part of Iceland, which is amusing, but the beginning of sedition in Slesvig would mean an attitude on our part such as you took towards secession in the South.
Like Romaine, he belonged to Lady Huntingdon's Connexion until the secession of 1781.
There had been a considerable secession of English clergymen to the Unitarians,[466] and Horsley's masterly tracts were a very opportune defence of the Catholic doctrine.
The objections to the Dissenters' plan are many, and to the Church more; that secession means the neutrality between both, and so materially offensive to neither.
In its beginnings, it was essentially an agitation which originated within the National Church, and one in which the very thought of secession was vehemently deprecated.
The High Church party, deprived of many of their best men by the secession of the Nonjurors, and suspected by a triumphant majority of Jacobitism and general disaffection, were weakened, narrowed, and embittered.
But for the tactics of Rattazzi, leader of the Left, who, by basing his opposition on party considerations, impeded the secession of Minghetti and a part of the Right from the ministerial majority, Sella would have been defeated.
He was the only Southern member of Congress who opposed secession and refused to "go with his state" when it withdrew from the Union in 1861.
The loss of revenue consequent upon the secession of Lithuania placed John Albert at the mercy of the Polish Sejmiki or local diets, where the szlachta, or country gentry, made their subsidies dependent upon the king's subservience.
Secession may not involve the development of a new and better moral organization; it may simply mean the suicide of one's public aspect.
But often the practical alternative is between futile secession or implicit or actual falsehood.
It is in this case as in every other; secession is the beginning of a new integration.
We are led by this discussion of secession straight between the horns of a moral dilemma.
It is only whensecession is absolutely unavoidable that it is right to secede.
The movement inaugurated by Bilderdyk, Da Costa, and Capadose led to an important secession from the Church of Holland.
It was the birthplace of Dr John Brown, author of Rab and his Friends, whose father was secession minister in the town.
With every evidence of a strong Southern secession from his party, with Clay and Webster leading the solid ranks of the East, it did seem that Jackson would fail if he vetoed the bill passed by great majorities in both Senate and House.
If this failed, then secession was to be the remedy.
The object of this general convention was to present to Congress a Southern ultimatum, and in the event that this should not be heeded, to urge the secession of the slaveholding States.
Twice that number joined the secession of the Free Church in 1843.
But in the very next year, the holding of conventicles under clerical supervision, and in 1860, the secession to other ecclesiastical denominations, were allowed by law.
The greater part of his congregation and four other pastors with him formally declared their secession from the unfaithful church, as a return to the orthodox Reformed church.
Even in 1857 the Reichstag rejected a royal proposal to set aside the Secession as well as the Conventicle Act.
Secession from the church is freely allowed, and releases from all personal obligations to pay ecclesiastical dues and perform ecclesiastical duties.
On the outbreak of the war of Secession in 1861 the troops of the union were for the most part withdrawn.
Therefore the director of a strict Calvinistic Gymnasium, formerly a pastor, performed the ceremony, and the congregation announced its secession from the synodal union.
They thought it to be all bluster, and hence paid little heed to the threat of secession or of war.
His nomination caused a secession from the whigs, resulting in the formation of the free-soil party; yet he maintained his popularity as President, and was one of the most esteemed who have filled that office.
Give an account of thesecession of the South on the election of Lincoln.
The same number makes calm and commentless record of “The South Carolina Proclamation of Independence,” and the spread of secession through the South.
But one cold morning in the winter of ‘61, the telegraph bore to New York tidings of the secession of Louisiana, then the sons of the sunny South rallied to her standard, and for four long years a bloody war desolated that section.
They would surely have resisted secession could they have lived to see the shape it assumed.
With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.
The secession of one State after another followed, until eleven had gone out.
His district had been settled originally by people from the Southern States, and at the breaking out of secession they sympathized with the South.
As Secretary of War he was reported through the northern press to have scattered the little army the country had so that the most of it could be picked up in detail when secession occurred.
But much was destroyed without receipts to owners, when it could not be brought within our lines and would otherwise have gone to the support ofsecession and rebellion.
Secession was illogical as well as impracticable; it was revolution.
It was evident to my mind that the election of a Republican President in 1856 meant the secession of all the Slave States, and rebellion.
The other closed at Appomattox, where the doctrine of secession and the institution of slavery perished and a more perfect union than our fathers made was established.
While Charleston stood at gaze and Anderson at bay the ferment of secession was working fast in Florida, where another tiny garrison was all the Union had to hold its own.
Floyd, as an ardent Southerner, was using the last lax days of the Buchanan Government to get the army posts ready for capitulation whenever secession should have become an accomplished fact.
Boonville was a stunning blow to secession in those parts.
After the War of Secession the canal lost much of its relative importance for commerce.
In the War of Secession it was the scene of a battle between General Sterling Price and General Hugh B.
On the secession of Georgia, now soon following, Fort Pulaski was seized and the various military commands did their tour of duty there, the Hussars among them.
If I were writing an article on Charleston in Secession time, now, here was an opportunity for description.
I sat in Charleston, South Carolina, during Secession time, December, 1860.
The boundary which Secessionproffers is an unnatural and impossible one.
One of the advantages, by the way, that Secession is going to bring with it is, that the world will be brought into direct contact with us, and thus see us as we are, not through the eyes of the North.
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