The South, although they intended to secede as a last resort, had no idea that they should be brought to that point.
I distinctly admit what has been said by the honorable Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Webster], that no State has a right to secede from this Union.
In the first Confederate Congress members representing districts in Missouri and Kentucky were also admitted, though those states did not secede from the Union.
It is important to observe that these questions of nullification and a state's right to secede from the Union were sharply agitated in December, 1832, because it gives direct testimony of the original date of the prophecy.
The States attempting to secede placed themselves in a condition where their vitality was impaired, but not extinguished; their functions suspended, but not destroyed.
He admitted that this necessity would be "an ugly point;" but he was perfectly clear that "the right of a State tosecede is not an open or debatable question.
Their right to separate is the right which Cartouche or Turpin would have had to secede from their respective countries, because the laws of those countries would not suffer them to rob and murder on the highway.
I don't know whether you think it good to secede or not.
The agitation extended into the neighbouring counties of Virginia, where some discontented people wished to secede and join the state of Franklin.
And he was too much depressed by the news to enter into an argument with Mr. Funk upon the right of a State to secede from the Union.
It is contended by some that it is better to allow those States that choose to secede to go in peace than to enter into a civil war, the end of which no man can foretell.
Many of the leading papers have advocated the policy of allowing such States to secede as choose to do so.
Jackson tersely said: "To say that any State may, at pleasure, secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation.
A parallel question is, can a province annexed to an empire secede when it chooses, as South Carolina and other Confederates once attempted secession from the American Union?
The first point at issue is whether subjects may dethrone their ruler, a people alter their polity, or a province secede from an empire, at discretion.
The national safety and the economic welfare of the United States were at stake in the War of Secession, although the attempt to secede resulted from institutional rather than ethnic causes.
If the South is quite right in wishing to preserve slavery intact forever, surely those are in the wrong who would make war on it for wishing to secede from a government which tolerates attacks on legalized institutions!
I move the following as a substitute: "And no State can secede from the Union, or nullify an act of Congress, or absolve its citizens from their paramount obligations of obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States.
But it is said some of the States are threatening to secede from the Union; others have seceded, and must be induced to come back, by the speedy action of Congress on the amendments recommended by the committee.
It has been intimated here that Maryland will secede unless she secures these guarantees.
Arkansas may conclude to secede when she shall determine finally upon her position in the Union.
The doctrine of the North is, that no State can secede from the Union.
If the Germans of Bohemia secede from the Czechoslovaks or the Croats from the Serbs, will British armies cross the sea to uphold the union which those peoples repudiate?
One day the proposal was mooted that each member-state should be free to secedeon giving two years' notice.
Suppose that a considerable number of Whigs secede from the Whig party, and support a candidate of this new party, what will be the result?
The natural converse of accession is secession; and, therefore, when it is stated that the people of the States acceded to the Union, it may be more plausibly argued that they may secede from it.
If, in adopting the Constitution, nothing was done but acceding to a compact, nothing would seem necessary, in order to break it up, but to secede from the same compact.
For the performance of its duty of protection it may unite with other sovereignties; and also, for better safety and security to its citizens, it may withdraw or secede from such Union.
She did not secede in the interest of slavery nor for the purpose of war.
The island of Anguilla rebelled and was allowed tosecede in 1971.
The whole city was rejoicing over the fact that South Carolina had been the first of the southern states to secede from the Union.
She heard her father say that he feared that South Carolina would secede from the United States, and she repeated the word aloud: "'Secede'?
For Mr. Fulton had told her that very morning that he was sure South Carolina would secede from the Union, and then northern men would no longer be welcome in Charleston.
Very soon it might be possible that South Carolina would secedefrom the Union, and war with the northern states might follow.
