Word: secessionism
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John Calhoun, born to the cotton rows and the linsey-woolsey of a South Carolina frontier farm, became the greatest spokesman the slave-owning aristocracy ever had. He loved the Union with a choked, subterranean passion, but his arguments led fatefully to secession and Fort Sumter. Desperately he yearned for...
The Old Sinner. "I traveled with a racking headache and a morphine bottle," Mary Chesnut wrote of her trip from Charleston to the secession conference in Montgomery, Ala. "I felt a nervous dread and horror of this break with so great a power as the United States, but I was...
The band has always been a family affair: Guy, Carmen and Lebert own it. Sister Rose Marie (now Mrs. Henry Becker) once sang, but, says Guy, "never took it seriously." He doesn't exactly say so, but he gives the impression that the defection of kid brother Victor, who...
There was early discord among the pals. Menachim Beigin's ultra-nationalist Freedom Movement refused to be called a right-wing party, ignored its allotment of seats on the chamber's extreme right, and stubbornly sat down on the left. The Communists objected to the seating of their...
Then came the climactic announcement of secession from the civilized world and the release of the "Ceremonial Dove"--apparently a plain Yard pigeon--which was countered by release of several dozen balloons and a great deal of water from Adams House.