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

In a letter in late 1861 from the front, "Will indeed settle the question, for some years at least, as to whether union or secession, the Constitution or rebellion, shall triumph.

在一封1861年年底来自前线的信中,"会解决问题,但至少需要数年,不管是联合还是独立,宪法抑或是起义,终将有一方胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You can find a whole- you can sort of find a deep and abiding kind of American nationalism still in a lot of these budding Southern patriots, even by the 1850s, especially when they get scared about what secession might actually mean.

你会发现,可以说你会发现一种深层持久的,美国民族主义仍旧根植于许多,南方爱国者们心中,甚至到十九世纪五十年代还是如此,特别是当他们开始害怕,脱离联邦会导致何种不可预料的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

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