Word: secessionism
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1814-Delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island met in the Hartford Convention, accused the Federal Government of giving them inadequate protection from the British, talked secession.
North Dakota's 48 State Senators meeting in a Bismarck auditorium- rose and cheered deaf 83-year-old Senator William Martin last week when for the first time since the Civil War Secession was publicly proposed in a State Legislature. Senator Martin's resolution would leave in the...
No revolutionist, His Grace emphasized that Scottish secession is not his object but solemnly declared: "The question of self-government for Scotland has grown from a purling stream into a roaring cataract!"
So sure were the British of this that they invited no Burmese to last week's third and final Conference. Just as the delegates assembled, however, cables from Rangoon announced that the Burmese Anti-Secession Party leader, eminent Dr. B. A. Maw, had won the Burmese General Election and...
Saying that "a new secession of the true German spirit and soul is beginning." Emil Ludwig in the current Nation proceeds to explain the causes of this movement. When Wilhelm II became emperor, there was a similar secession. The great German artists withdrew from the official circle, and the court...