In , progressive activists in Portland, Oregon, submitted a petition calling for a statewide vote on secession; that same year, a poll showed that 26 percent of Texans supported state independence. In a survey , 31 percent of Americans believed a civil war was possible within the next five years. A cohort of national security experts put the chances of a civil war within the next 15 years at 35 percent.
And who has not entertained the possibility that, if Trump loses the election this fall, he might resist leaving office? Strange turnout patterns during the pandemic would certainly give both candidates a pretext for contesting the results—and what institution these days has the legitimacy to settle the question decisively?
If the idea of the U. The South tried it, they lost, and ever since disunion has seemed a practical impossibility. To build a truly equal and lasting multiracial democracy, he argues, we must stop papering over the constant threat of disunion that haunts our past.
From the first colonial settlement in Plymouth , separatism has been a feature of our political life. The Puritans, Kreitner reminds us, called themselves Separatists, and founded their colony to escape Anglican control. The 13 colonies that eventually formed the United States shared no common identity or purpose before the revolution. Now it is unquestionable that one of the rights recognized to belong to the Southern people by the Constitution, and pledged to be respected by the other States, and secured to them by the Government, has nevertheless been violated, wilfully and intentionally by twelve Northern States; and this course towards the South has been virtually approved of by a large majority of the Northern people at the recent election.
What then is the South to do[? The South will not do it. The South ought not to do it. Let the Northern States repeal their Personal Liberty Bills, and pass laws recognizing the rights of the Southern people to their property. Let Southern people be permitted to enjoy their rights unmolested and undisturbed. Let them, if they desire it, carry with them in their tours of business or pleasure their domestic servants.
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Texas Republican state Sen. As I turn 50, I appreciate the paradox of aging. Well, maybe we can't get rid of slavery in the South, but you would turn us into slave catchers in our own states. We won't do it. LINDA: You say you only want to limit slavery to where it already exists, but now you've elected President Lincoln who comes right out and says that he wants to put slavery "on the road to extinction. JOHN: The federal government should have the power - and I would say it has the moral duty - to ban slavery wherever it can.
You're so righteous about slavery being wrong, but we have the Constitution on our side. We're breaking no law, but it's obvious that you are not going to leave us alone to live as law-abiding Americans. It's suicide. Maybe that way we'll all survive.
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