Word: secessionism
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1) walk out of the Union along with "our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States"; 2) abstain from joining any trouble-starred Southern Confederacy; and 3) declare itself a "free city," to be named Tri-lnsula for its islands of Manhattan, Staten and Long. The common council was all for...
Though Mayor Wagner has yet to block the Hudson and barricade the Thruway, the secession crisis between city and state is rapidly becoming critical. City Democrats are fed up with the paltry allotment of tax monies which Albany Republicans vote them, and are now considering the possibility of taking the...
In a pleasant-looking jail of whitewashed brick at Gwelo last week sat Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 54, who, though a Negro, got a white man's cell to himself. His crime: advocating secession. He wants to take his native Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation with the...
Closing down the schools, Editor Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer once told fellow Southerners, is "something beyond secession from the Union; [it] is secession from civilization." Last week Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus ordered certain public schools closed...
On the eve of this week's Supreme Court decision on the Little Rock school integration crisis, the traditional lines of basic national conflict were hardening around the South. The conflict: states rights v. federal law. In the South last week, as it had been through plantation growth, secession...