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...bout Fort Sumter? First, should he re-supply it--and risk war--or not and concede defeat, thereby giving the secessionist South a valuable bit of propaganda? Was there a diplomatic solution? To help a...
...from the old regarding the status of the African race amongst us. (Slavery was without doubt the occasion of secession; out of it rose the breach of compact, for instance, on the part of several North...
...ch endures to this very day (as the presence of such political parties as the Northern League, demanding the secession of all regions north of the Po River from impoverished southern Italy and Sicily ...
... Pinkerton came to him with a lurid warning.
According to Pinkerton, there was a secret society of violent secessionists in Baltimore called the 'Blood Tubs', and they were plotting the murder of Li...
...efforts by both sides *Court cases affecting the war *Reconstruction *Prison camps *Reenacting *The right of secession *Participation by various ethnic groups. *European reaction to the war *Immigrati...
...an enigma He was a dyed-in-the-wool states rights & slavery advocate & at the same time was dead set against secession. He worked hard to make states rights the law of the land & slavery legal. He unk...
...of treason. Not one.
Treason by the Confederates? Hardly. The US was so frightened of putting the right of secession on trial in Federal Court they didnt dare prosecute even Jefferson Davis. If the ...
The subject of secession is usually discussed in regards to the Southern States. Do those who support the theory that the legality of secession is unquestionable also support the the theory that had a
... the Federal capital in Washington, DC that it was making a deliberate extra provocation of the Union (as if secession itself wasn't enough!). Didn't they realize that it would prove to be a magnet fo...
I have always wondered if Stonewall had not died and therefore had taken Culp's hill at Gettysburg, and the South won the war...............then,
how long would it have taken for most, if not all of
...nd are now our enemies. I, of course, have always strenuously opposed disunion, not as doubting the right of secession, which was taught in our text-book at West Point, but as gravely questioning its ...
and that was of course the position in the union as well.
you do realize that chatel slavery existed in the Union until -after- the end of the war don't you.
if the writers of the Unites States Co
... interposition would be justifiable if the people of a state should determine to retire from the Union...The secession of a state from the Union depends on the will of the people of such state..'
Wh...
...ect line would tweek your spell checker, but it is a real question. 'Sucession' is a common mis-spelling of 'secession' but was it also used in the context of the ACW, as in having the Confederate gov...
date of secession
hello has all
excuse my question but that can say them to me dates exact of secession of the 11 state of the south
thank you patrick from france
OK, what would have happened during Lincoln's presidency if there had been no secession? Wouldn't the southern interests had an effective control of Congress with their Dem friends from the north? No
...guage:
If that Southwest Ordinance has a similar article it would pretty much entirely negate any right of secession by those states formed under its provisions.
SC might be able to argue it, but ...
...acy Clause states that no act passed by a state may supercede one passed by the Federal gov't. An article of secession qualifies as such an act. Therefore, under the Constitution, any state has the ri...
...be inadequate, they were supplanted by the present constitution. And the means to affect this natural rights secession is found in the language of Article VII.
Because of Rhode Island's opposition t...
...gate any state law it felt was not in the best interest of the Federal Union. In the case of an ordinance of secession, for example, it would have been a painless, bloodless, uncomplicated, efficient,...
...t.
Nor, obviously, to obstruct or abolish the entire power of the Federal government by a pretended act of secession....
... so many people completely disregard the fact that the United States itself was founded on the principles of secession and self-determination. It seems logically and intellectually impossible to celeb...
Indeed, Thomas Jefferson weighed in on nullification and secession, and he ardently supported both doctrines. His most widely publicized work on secession is familiar to many. Indeed, it provided the
new england outlawed slavery & did not secede , the south didn't and did. there is no moral equivalancy.
I have been told that Texas is the only state who can secede even now at will. First, is this true and second if they go, who gets Lackland AFB; NASA,Houston; Kelly, etc. and all U.S. installations?
...a few weeks).
Why is it still being fought?
And here? Among people who know the history.
The matter of secession was definitely settled. The people with the guns decided the matter. The bad guys...
...their final act as member States of a completely volunatry political union, each promulgated a public act of secession. The constitution placed a solemn legal obligation on the United States, all of t...
...ific questions for specific sources to bring your ideas to fruition. One thing is for sure. The 'legality of secession' issue never fails to surprise/disappoint with the length, depth and breadth of r...
...ght well have been no CSA in the first place
Had the Whig party still existed it would surely have opposed secession - and had it been strong enough to keep say, Ga and La in the Union, it would hav...
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