Is it to be melted away by secession, as the snows of a mountain are melted away under the sun?

VOA: special.2009.04.02

This idea of leaving the Union secession split North and South just as much as slavery.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Then,in eighteen fifty, Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky offered a compromise to avoid secession, and a likely war between the North and the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He warned that the war which would follow southern secession would be long and bloody.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Northerners did not like his declaration of federal weakness in the face of secession.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Most of the congressmen from states in the deep south supported secession.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The issue of slavery was linked to the issue of secession.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

A majority of the delegates refused to vote for secession.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The second proposal was a strong policy statement on secession.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

"Let us not speak of the possibility of secession.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

He said he opposed secession and loved the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Secession would not open the territories to slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.19