If then, the addition of twenty States did nothing to constitute the Union complete, that being complete at its very origin, how can it be maintained or imagined that the secession of a single ...

Such was not the purpose of naming Bossier a free state in 1860. Was the “Free State of Bossier” the first secession in the South? Nov. 26, 1860, when the Free State of Bossier was formed ...

NORFOLK, Va., Sunday, Dec. 23. The secession feeling here is on the increase. Ashland Hall was again crowded with citizens last night. Disunion speeches were delivered by Col. V. D. GROVER and Gen.

The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal ... only alternative they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to ...

Though it is hard to know what he could have done during the “Secession Winter” of 1860–61 (when the Confederacy formed and broke away from the United States), his passivity condemns him.

I mean, if you looked objectively at the lineup in 1860, it was fairly clear he was ... t like to admit today that slavery was the cause of secession, which led in turn to the Civil War.

Oregon’s conservative western counties want to break away from their deep-blue state and become part of the solidly red state of Idaho. They are asking President-elect Donald Trump to help make ...

Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1861 – the birthplace of secession, and tempers were on edge. In December 1860, the state of South Carolina declared itself independent and severed ties ...