Word: secessionism
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Since South Africander Hertzog is of Dutch descent and rather relishes baiting Englishmen, there is some reason to suppose that he deliberately upset the intended emphasis on Edward of Wales. The Prime Minister's excuse is, clearly, that his indiscreet interview was given in the heat of a verbal...
South Carolina's senior Senator, Coleman L. Blease, scouted the notion that his State, outstanding exemplar of secession, would bolt the Democratic ticket if Smith were nominated. This and other statements quieted the talk of Smith's "splitting" the South.
His was a career of perpetual paradoxes. He was stoutly opposed to Secession. He freed his own slaves years before the Civil War. Yet he became the outstanding champion of the causes of Secession and Slavery. He was a mild-mannered Southern gentleman, so kind-hearted that he would stoop...
Reason for Son Tyler's anger at the memory of President Lincoln is not far to seek. President John Tyler entered the White House in 1841 upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe. His hand-me-down administration, unlike that of Calvin Coolidge, contemporary prototype...
Reminding the assembled U. S. Laborites that "the fathers of American liberty allowed precious little democratic freedom during the War of Secession," he referred to the ogre-like pictures drawn of Bolshevism in foreign countries. He concluded: "Go back and tell your fellow citizens, if you will, that the Soviet...