Secession

present today was the Secession Crisis and South Carolina being the first of the southern states to secede. Talks of secession had been going on since the birth of the nation for one reason or another but, the election of President Lincoln who was in favor of ending the spread of slavery was the final act that caused the United States of America to rip into two separate countries. It started with South Carolina in December of 1860 which passed an Ordinance of Secession, the…

officially declared its secession from the United States of America on February 1, 1861. They then joined the Confederate States on March 2, 1861 after replacing Sam Houston (who would not pledge his allegiance with the Confederacy) with Edward Clark as governor. The secession was decided in the Texas Secession Convention where delegates chose in a vote of 166 to 8 for secession. So why did the delegates overwhelmingly vote for secession and war? Texans voted for secession and war in the…

Republican party, who publicly advocated against slavery, and his win in the election brought fear from the South to fruition. The divide was clear between the North and South, and the only thing for Southerners to do is implement it, through secession. Secession was imminent but they didn’t…

letters and speeches that the secession commissioners wrote, in which he sought the reasons other than states’ rights to their secession from the Union. Correspondingly, he argues for the centrality of race and slavery as the reasons for the South’s secession. What’s more, is the reasoning behind why the author is writing this book and his projected achievements from doing so. Dew’s analysis of the Confederate documents…

The blessings of Slavery, and William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator reveals that the secession commissioners’ depictions of southern slavery differed from the language Southerners used to describe slavery to Northerners, specific commissioners’ arguments were more persuasive and effective in convincing Southern states to secede, and that Northerners, especially abolitionists, would have responded to the secession commissioners’ arguments in a hostile and instrumental way. The commissioners’…

to the Civil War was a long one. There were various points in American history that lead to the war; such as the Missouri Compromise; the Kansas-Nebraska Act; the political idea of nullification; the political idea of secession; John Brown; the election of Abraham Lincoln; secession; and slavery. Before the Missouri compromise states were evenly divided between slave states and Free states. In 1819 Missouri requested to join the Union as a slave state, which would upset the balance between…

months the South, starting with South Carolina, submitted Declarations of Secession. Texas, in their Declaration of Secession, after listing…

conclude the rest” (p.331). Meaning that by entering a commonwealth, all must abide by the majority, which allows the community to move forward in the same direction. Which in relation to the Catalans demand for secession, suggest that they as a unite aside from Spain do not truly seek secession. In an article by Eric Guntermann titled The myth of massive support for independence in Catalonia, Guntermann’s explains that ever since 2013 supports for independence in Catalonia has declined from…

the focus to slavery in 1863. The war was between two sides, the Union and the Confederacy, with each side having distinct advantages and disadvantages. The Confederate States of America (CSA) were formed when eleven southern states seceded. This secession, starting with South Carolina in late 1860 and ending with Tennessee in mid-1861, caused great amounts of tension between the two halves of the United States. President Abraham Lincoln had to deal with both the war itself and mending the…

in his letter, narrates his anguished thoughts pertaining to the conflicts between the North and South. Lee’s main objective is to express his extreme grief when seeing the Union in its current state of unease as well as to voice the plight of secession and ultimately civil war. He employs the uses of several rhetorical strategies including: doleful diction, hyperboles, and historical remembrance to efficaciously illustrate his feelings of melancholy towards troubles being faced by the country…