That the Federal Government is to enforce its laws over the seceding State, and yet not coerce her into obedience, is to me incomprehensible.
The votes were close--ninety to eighty-six--produced by the seceding and absence of a few moderate men from the North.
Jefferson Davis and nine other Senators from the seceded and seceding States not to deliver it on the day appointed, nor was it communicated to me until the 31st of January, with his letter of that date.
If the seceding States abstain "from any and all acts calculated to produce a collision of arms," then the danger so much to be deprecated will no longer exist.
Henceforth let every unsuccessful litigant have the right to pronounce the verdict of a jury sectional, and to quash all proceedings and retain the property in controversy by seceding from the court-room.
They could not even, except temporarily, keep the war away from the territory of the seceding States, every one of which had a sea-door open to the invasion of an enemy who controlled the entire navy and shipping of the country.
Even if seceding States could be conquered back again, they would not be worth the conquest.
Perhaps we should say inducements rather than motives, for of these there was but a single one put forward by the seceding States, namely, the obtaining security, permanence, and extension for the system of slavery.
In what precise manner the seceding States shall return, whether by inherent right, or with some preliminary penance and ceremony of readoption, is of less consequence than what they shall be after their return.
There is probably a majority, and certainly a powerful minority, in the seceding States, who are loyal to the Union; and these should have that support which the prestige of the General Government can alone give them.
Yet it was by precisely such a majority, and that attained by force or fraud, that the seceding States were taken out of the Union.
At the following session of Congress, the first bill providing for congressional supervision of the readmission of the seceding States was passed, but the President retained it without signing it until Congress had adjourned.
In the other seceding States the government passed, at various times and by various methods during the next six years after 1871, under control of the whites, who still retain control.
Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, even talked of compensating for the loss of the seceding States by admissions from Canada and elsewhere.
President Lincoln issued a call for volunteers, and a proclamation announcing a blockade of the coast of the seceding States.
The only requisite to recognition of a seceding State was to be the discovery of enough loyal or pardoned citizens to set its machinery going again.
This act of revolution on the part of the seceding States has evoked the most extraordinary theories upon the relations of the States to the Federal Government.
The amnesty proclamation of December, 1863, offered to recognize any State government in theseceding States formed by one tenth of the former voters who should take the oath of loyalty and support of the emancipation measures.
Whatever the political status of the negro may now be in the seceding States, it may be confidently affirmed that it is far better than it would have been in the same time under an unrestricted readmission.
The labor system of the seceding States was a mark so tempting that no belligerent should have been seriously expected to have refrained from aiming at it.
Grenville remained foreign secretary; the Duke of Portland, the nominal head of the seceding whigs, took the home department, with the colonies, and Dundas retained the conduct of the war as secretary of state for war.
With so great a strain upon him, Pitt was unable to bear with patience the attempts of Tierney, the leader of the non-seceding section of the opposition, to thwart his measures.
It must have been understood, then, from the commencement, that the war begun by the seceding States was waged on the part of the United States to preserve the Union of the States, and restore them to their "constitutional relation.
Virginia then sent Benjamin Watkins Leigh to South Carolina to try to bring peace within the Union again and to prevent South Carolina from seceding from the Union.
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From first to last, conscripts and volunteers, nearly a million men were enrolled: equaling one-fifth of the entire war-party white population of the seceding States.
Will the secedingcolleagues come if they are asked?
Most of the seceding colleagues accepted, and the dinner came off well enough, though as the host wrote to a friend beforehand, "If Hartington were to get up and move a vote of want of confidence after dinner, he would almost carry it.
No crime could in her eyes be greater than that of seceding from her party.
Preparatory to such a movement, it would seem indispensable, that Union among the seceding states themselves should be secured.
But laying aside all the obstacles to union among the seceding states, how is it possible to take the first step to actual separation!
The Federal Government waged war to coerce theseceding States to remain in the Union.
All the eleven seceding States repealed their ordinances of secession.
These were some of the acts of war committed by the seceding states before the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
But the special session of the legislature was so unanimous in arming the state and calling a convention that little doubt remains that Louisiana will, on the 23rd of January, follow the other seceding states.
Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, proposed to retrocede to theseceding states, the property of the United States.
Is it not, therefore, possible to frame a bill which will punish the prominent actors in the rebellion, proclaim amnesty to the great mass of citizens in the seceding states, and separate them from their leader?
Now, it is the interest of every citizen in a seceding state to be a rebel.
The question then was whether the people of the seceding states would try to carry into effect their declaration.
At that early day, I believed that it was the duty of Congress to confiscate the slaves in the seceding states as the natural result of the war.
The same history is true of every other seceding State--States, unlike Kentucky, already embarked in and committed to the war.
Was it much less "criminal" and "heretical" to do this than to "take sides with theseceding States?
It appeared to be by no means certain, just then, that an attempt would be made to coerce the seceding States, or that the Southern Confederacy would not be established without a war.
The nation is now in debt for money applied to the benefit of these so-called seceding States in common with the rest; is it just that the creditors shall go unpaid, or the remaining States pay the whole?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seceding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
