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Example sentences for "seceded"

Lexicographically close words:
sec; secale; secant; secco; secede; seceders; secedes; seceding; secesh; secession
  1. Plebs, for the second time, seceded to the Mons Sacer, and the Decemviri were obliged to give way.

  2. Such thinkers contended too that the Union had no right to "coerce" a seceded State.

  3. As a result of tyrannical action upon the part of King Zoheir, chief of the Absians, several chieftains seceded to attack and rob other tribes and establish their own kingdom.

  4. In the evening of the very day of the upheaval, we made a pitch on the greensward opposite to the theatre we had seceded from.

  5. One big cartoon of a Christmas dinner in the Capitol at Washington, revealed Mr. Lincoln holding wide the doors, and the seceded States returning to the family love feast.

  6. As soon as the fact was ascertained, seven of them had seceded and had seized upon the forts, arsenals, navy yards, and other public property of the United States within their boundaries, and were making every preparation for war.

  7. One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.

  8. A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths.

  9. One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.

  10. The States that had seceded were divided into five military districts, and President Johnson, much against his will, was obliged to appoint the governors.

  11. As soon as Virginia seceded (May 23d), the capital was removed from Montgomery to Richmond.

  12. When the General Assembly condemned this utterance, the entire southern part of the church seceded and set up a separate jurisdiction.

  13. It is true that Forts Taylor and Jefferson, at Key West and Tortugas, are so situated as to be essentially national, and therefore important to us without reference to our relations with the seceded States.

  14. We are free to say that the invaluable reforms enumerated should be adopted by the United States, with or without a reunion of the seceded States, and as soon as possible.

  15. It is by this confounding of nullification and secession that the name of a great man whose ashes now mingle with his mother earth has been evoked to justify coercion against a seceded State.

  16. The six States which had already seceded were of course not of the number represented; nor were Texas and Arkansas, the secession of which, although not consummated, was obviously inevitable.

  17. If it be the purpose of gentlemen, they may make war against a State which has withdrawn from the Union; but there are no laws of the United States to be executed within the limits of a seceded State.

  18. This plan was provisional only; it eschewed the idea of invading a seceded State; and he suggested the collection of customs duties, outside of the cities.

  19. The very men who could least see a pretext for a war by the Federal people against the seceded States were those who would most eagerly have rushed into a war to sustain the British claim in the Trent affair.

  20. Then one state seceded after another, and they set up the "Southern Confederacy," with slavery as its corner-stone.

  21. Uncle Sam, therefore, even yet did all he could to induce the seceded states to come home again, and assured them in every possible way that not a finger should be laid upon their slaves, but that they should keep them all!

  22. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom.

  23. Say to the seceded States: 'Wayward sisters, depart in peace.

  24. At least, until Missouri seceded he was going to maintain, as best he could, the National authority in his Department.

  25. There can be, I apprehend, no doubt but these men are intended to form a part of the President's army to make war upon the people of the seceded States.

  26. Even before South Carolina seceded the ardent young Secessionists of St. Louis had begun the organization of "Minute Men" to "protect the State.

  27. On the 15th President Lincoln issued his proclamation formally announcing the condition of affairs which existed in the seceded States, the defiance of the Central Government, and the seizure of its property.

  28. Whatever may be the status of the Border States in this respect, the War cannot be ended until the power of the Government is made manifest in the seceded States.

  29. The State of Alabama also seceded the same day.

  30. WAR, with a view to the subjugation and military occupation of those States which have Seceded or may Secede from the Union.

  31. The Southern States have more territory than all the Colonies had when they Seceded from Great Britain, and a better territory.

  32. The Southern States have, too, at this day, four times the population the Colonies had when they Seceded from Great Britain.

  33. That day the State of Mississippi seceded from the Union.

  34. The commander of the vessels were all formerly officers of the United States Navy, who were citizens of the Southern States and had resigned their commissions in the Federal service when their States seceded from the Union.

  35. The work to be done in States that have seceded is that of reconstruction, not creation; and this work is not and cannot be done, exclusively nor chiefly by the General government, either by the Executive or by Congress.

  36. The rebellion being really territorial, and not personal, the State that seceded was no more continued in the loyal than in the disloyal population.

  37. What then do the people of the several States that seceded lose by secession?

  38. Are the States that seceded States in the Union, with no other disability than that of having no legal governments?

  39. The government started with the theory that no State had seceded or could secede, and held that, throughout, the States in rebellion continued to be States in the Union.

  40. The latter had seceded from the German empire, and was now building up at its expense his own great Slavic kingdom.

  41. The emperor Francis Joseph entered into an alliance with the Czar of Russia, the purpose of which was to reconquer seceded Hungary and ultimately to crush her liberty.

  42. The new Southern Congress now resolved to take over the forts and other property in the seceded States that had belonged to the Union, and the first Confederate general, Beauregard, was sent to Charleston to hover over Fort Sumter.

  43. Was it not possible that conflict could be staved off till an agreement could be reached with Virginia and the border States, which would induce the seceded States to return?

  44. Even in the seceded States your word now would go further than a President's proclamation, or an act of Congress.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seceded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.