Either the Secessionists will show fight handsomely, or they will fail to do so.
The more strongly the Secessionists state their cause, the more glaringly it is seen to differ from any cause for which any sane person has taken up arms since the Roman servile wars.
There are Secessionists in Russia, and for the next two years they may be able to do much to prevent the completion of the work so well begun by Alexander II.
The result described is inevitable, should the Secessionists dare to tempt the ordeal by battle long enough.
The Secessionists have suggested to us a fatal argument.
Between the Maryland state line and Baltimore there were two railroad bridges, crossing the Little Gunpowder and Bush rivers; and both these bridges had been destroyed by secessionists during the night.
No doubt the secessionists hereabout had done their best for a few days past to prevent our ever arriving at Annapolis Junction.
In a word, the friends of the Union are completely under; the successful party are the Secessionists and renegade Unionists, enemies of the Government.
Although this majority gave the secessionists power to carry their wishes into instant effect, it was not thought politic to do so while the difference between the two parties remained so small.
The secessionists of all parts of the State were bound together by watchful associations, and were everywhere on the alert.
While the secessionists were bold, vigilant, and uncompromising, the Coöperationists were timid and passionless, though full of a passive confidence that the Union would in some way be preserved.
Secessionists were astonished at the change, and in their anxiety to avoid anything which might shock the newly awakened sentiment, appeared in many cases the most conservative members of the community.
During the second half of March, Unionists and Secessionists in the Virginia Convention debated with deep emotion this searching new proposal.
When the hour of emancipation shall have struck, and it will strike some day, the secessionists of 1860 will not probably speak of their rights to indemnity; they have just given a quittance of it in cannon balls.
The United States will not perish; but they will long remember with gratitude what they owe to the secessionists of 1860.
At 3 o'clock in the morning of June 20 the Secessionists reached the pickets, whom they bayonetted to prevent their giving the alarm, and rushed in upon the sleeping Unionists, pouring volley after volley into the barns.
The Secessionistsscored a point and carried dismay to the Unionists by securing an order from Gen.
He was willing to go any length in serving theSecessionists that did not involve his dismissal from the Army.
Pope, Prentiss, Schofield and Henderson were given sufficient forces and ordered to move directly upon the more important bodies of Secessionists who formed a nucleus and support for these depredators.
The Secessionists of St. Louis had been encouraged by the untoward course of events in the East.
It is for the most part made up of those Secessionists who have openly avowed their hostility to the General Government, and have been plotting at the seizure of its property and the overthrow of its authority.
Price was the Commander-in-Chief, several prominent Secessionists were commanders upon the field of the whole or parts of the force.
It was an intense disappointment to the Secessionists everywhere that he made no show of a fight before surrendering.
The Secessionists were extremely fearful that in some way he would manage to get the arms and ammunition, and besought Harney and Hagner to omit no precaution to prevent this.
There were five or six prominent Secessionists among the killed, one of them being Mr. Leach, the editor of the Southwestern Democrat.
In the meanwhile the great disaster of Bull Run had occurred to depress the Union people and fill the Secessionists with unbounded enthusiasm and confidence.
The men in one of the barns had been warned, but were prevented from firing by the Union Flag which the Secessionists carried.
None of the secessionistshave been rebels or traitors, except in outward act, and there can, after the act has ceased, be no just punishment where there has been no criminal intent.
Foreign powers also, friendly as well as unfriendly, felt certain that the secessionists would gain their independence, and so did a large part of the people even of the loyal States.
The secessionists from the United States defended their action only on the ground that the States of the American Union are severally independent sovereign states, and they only obeyed the authority of their respective states.
Such bands were now the Abolitionists at the North and the Secessionists at the South.
But the political value of these scattered settlements was small; and in the more populous parts the Secessionists pursued their usual aggressive and enterprising tactics with success.
But the Secessionistshere as elsewhere in the South were propagandists, fiery with enthusiasm and energy, and they controlled the community although they were outnumbered by those who held, in a more quiet way, contrary opinions.
In Georgia the Secessionists doubted whether they could control a convention, yet felt obliged to call one.
The Secessionists were not in equal disfavor at the South, yet they were still very much in the minority, even in the Gulf States.
By some small engagements he cleared the country of armed Secessionists and returned it to the Union; and in so doing he showed energy and good tactical ability.
A Southerner by birth and by social sympathies, he had been expected by the Secessionists to join their movement.
It had been said that it would be best to divide the country, and let the secessionists have a country of their own.
He hasn't the pluck to shoot a squirrel; but you never could make him believe that it was an accident, and when he got ashore he would do all he could to inflame the secessionists against you.
The disturbers of the peace are secessionists without exception, and if the committee will shut up every one of that sort they can get their hands on, they will do the public a service.
There are plenty ofsecessionists in your county, and they will have not the first thing to do with you.
There'll be fighting before this thing is over, and more than you redhot secessionists will want to see--mark that!
All dispatches favorable to the secessionists and their cause were published, as a matter of course; but those that were not favorable were either suppressed entirely, or distorted out of all semblance to the truth.
The secessionists controlled both Houses and could have prevented constitutional proceeding if they had chosen to do so, but offered no interference.
A few of the Secessionists were not slow to express the fear that their own army would not be able to pay in full for all it wanted, as our army had done.
Some of theSecessionists ordered a quantity of revolvers from New York, to be forwarded by express.
The rapidity with which the Secessionists carried and received news was a matter of astonishment to our people.
It did not add to the comfort of the situation to know that a collision between the Home Guards and a company of Secessionists was momentarily expected.
In the interior of Missouri the Secessionistswere generally in the ascendant.
The success of the Union arms at Booneville did not silence the Secessionists in St. Louis.
The wealthy Secessionists of St. Louis were assessed the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the benefit of the Union refugees from Arkansas and other points in the Southwest.
The Secessionists made several wrong deductions from the sad appearance of that train.
The Secessionists in Memphis, like their brethren elsewhere, insisted that all the points we had captured were given up because they had no further use for them.
Many Secessionists were making preparations to receive Price and his army, and some of them prophesied the time of their arrival.
The Union people were quiet and law-abiding; theSecessionists active and unscrupulous.
The Home Guards were in possession, and the Secessionists had dispersed.
It demonstrated very clearly that the Secessionists were determined to make their actions correspond to their words.
This fact caused the Missouri Secessionists to feel great indignation toward the Germans.
The wealthy men in the Old Dominion, who were Secessionists for the sake of secession, and who gave every assistance to the Rebel cause, are opposed to the admission of Northern settlers.
Overawed by this bold move, thesecessionists made no resistance.
The troops moved double-quick toward the Washington depot, surrounded by a seething mass of infuriated secessionists filling the air with their brick-bats and stones, while bullets whizzed from sidewalks and windows.
By January 15th the secessionists had possession of arsenals at Augusta, Ga.
Secessionists slunk away, the faces of the loyal beamed with joy.
So cautious and considered was this program of the new administration that ardent secessionists declared before the fall of Fort Sumter that a reunion with the older Federal Government was the object.
And the abolitionists of New England were as noisome to him as were the radical secessionists to Henry Clay.
In the kindliest language he pointed out to the secessionists how ill advised their attempt at disunion was, and why, for their own sakes, they should desist.
We here obtained from some of the citizens the names of the most prominent secessionists along the route we were to travel, who would be most likely to help us on to that blissful land where we might enjoy our rights in peace (?
The grossest frauds are often practised by the unscrupulous secessionists in these exchanges.
Before this occurrence, the secessionists were down-spirited and despairing; but afterward they were jubilant.
In the battle at Bridgeport, in which the secessionists were so badly panic-stricken, the one from the Twenty-first found an opportunity to escape to General Mitchel.
Here, in Virginia, I met the most spiteful and venomous secessionists I had yet seen.
By the secessionists the capture of Camp Jackson was looked upon as a great outrage, for which the Union men had no authority under the Constitution and laws either of the United States or of the state of Missouri.
Whenever the regiment approached a town or village, most of the secessionists fled in dismay, after spreading terrible stories of the atrocities that the invaders would be sure to commit as soon as they arrived.
The Union men drank in joy and congratulation, while the Secessionists did likewise to drown their sorrow.
On their part they were to learn all they could about what the secessionists were doing in the region between Rolla and Ironton, and to what extent it was sending recruits to the rebel forces in the field.
At first the Secessionists encouraged the presence of these guerrillas, but after a time they found their exactions so great that they would gladly have rid themselves of their so-called "friends.
The union men gave him a hearty welcome, while the secessionists received him with many a frown.
A rumor went around among the secessionists that the Germans had threatened to kill everybody who did not agree with them, and a general massacre was seriously feared.
Then, as the Union guides were known, he had them change clothing and horses with two of the men, whom he sent forward to one of the secessionists whose name had been given by the rebel captain to the youths.
Colonel Timothy Pickering was one of the leading secessionists of his day.
In Philadelphia I for the first time came across live secessionists--secessionists who pronounced themselves to be such.
She must make the demand," the secessionistswould say, "and then there will be war; and after that we shall see whose ports will be blockaded!
If the Secessionistshad once fairly risen against their oppressors and not prevailed, it is difficult to say where the measures of savage retaliation would have ended.
But here, as elsewhere, I found it impossible to make Secessionists understand or allow the wisdom, justice, or generosity of the non-interference policy hitherto pursued by our Government.
The secessionists became quiet but were filled with suppressed rage.
They are fast coming to the conclusion that the list of grievances put forward by the secessionists is a sham and a pretence, the veil of a long-matured plot against republican institutions.
The secessionists are strong in declamation, but they are weak in the multiplication-table and the ledger.
But the mob of Baltimore had ceased to be secessionists within twelve months of their first exploit.
The secessionists had destroyed the railway bridge over the Green River, and were now lying at Bowling Green, between the Green River and Nashville.
It may therefore be surmised with what amount of neighborly love secessionists and Northern neighbors regarded each other in such towns as Baltimore and Washington.
The secessionists of Baltimore do not think so, nor the gentlemen and ladies of Washington, whose whole hearts are in the Southern cause.
The secessionists of Maryland and of Virginia may consent to live in obscurity; but if this be so, who is to rule in those States?
Men in fact became Unionists or secessionists not by their own conviction, but through the necessity of their positions; and Kentucky, through the necessity of her position, became one of the scenes of civil war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secessionists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
