Secession
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Secession -- Africa
- Secession -- Alabama
- Secession -- Arkansas
- Secession -- Florida
- Secession -- Georgia
- Secession -- Kentucky
- Secession -- Louisiana
- Secession -- Mississippi
- Secession -- North Carolina
- Secession -- South Carolina
- Secession -- Southern States
- Secession -- Tennessee
- Secession -- Texas
- Secession -- Virginia
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An Address on Secession, Delivered in South Carolina in the Year 1851 (New York: Loyal Publication Society, 1865), by Francis Lieber (multiple formats at archive.org)- Is Davis a Traitor; or, Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861? (Baltimore: Printed for the author by Innes and Co., 1866), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
- Robert Barnwell Rhett, Father of Secession (originally published 1931; reprinted Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1965), by Laura Amanda White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- An Authentic Exposition of the "K.G.C.", "Knights of the Golden Circle": or, A History of Secession from 1834 to 1861, Illustrated, By a Member of the Order (Indianapolis: C. O. Perrine, 1861)
- Inaugural Address of Gov. Thomas H. Watts, Before the Alabama Legislature, December 1st, 1863 (Montogmery, AL: Montgomery Advertiser Book and Job Office, 1863), by T. H. Watts
- Memorial Day Annual, 1912: The Causes and Outbreak of the War Between the States, 1861-1865, For Use as a Source Book of Contemporary Authorities (Richmond: Virginia Department of Public Instruction, 1912) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Rightful Remedy: Addressed to the Slaveholders of the South (Charleston: Walker and James, 1850), by Edward B. Bryan
- The State of the Country: An Article Republished from The Southern Presbyterian Review (third edition; Columbia, SC: Southern Guardian Steam-power Press, 1861), by James Henley Thornwell
- Secession in Switzerland and in the United States Compared: Being the Annual Address, Delivered Oct. 20th, 1863, Before the Vermont State Historical Society, in the Hall of Representatives, Capitol, Montpelier (Catskill: J. Joesbury, printer, 1864), by J. Watts De Peyster
- Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850, by Herbert Darling Foster, contrib. by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
- What is Our Constitution: League, Pact, or Government? Two Lectures on the Constitution of the United States Concluding a Course on the Modern State, Delivered in the Law School of Columbia College, During the Winter of 1860 and 1861; To Which is Appended an Address on Secession Written in the Year 1851 (1861), by Francis Lieber
- A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (2 volumes; Philadelphia et al.: National Pub. Co.; Chicago and St. Louis: Zeigler, McCurdy and Co., c1868-1870), by Alexander H. Stephens
- The Doom of Slavery in the Union: Its Safety Out of It, by John Townsend (page images at MOA)
- K.G.C.: An Authentic Exposition of The Origin, Objects, and Secret Work of The Organization Known as the Knights of the Golden Circle (1862), contrib. by Knights of the Golden Circle (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History and Debates of the Convention of the people of Alabama, Begun and Held in the City of Montgomery, on the Seventh Day of January, 1861: In Which is Preserved the Speeches of the Secret Sessions and Many Valuable State Papers, ed. by William Russell Smith, contrib. by Convention of the People of the State of Alabama (1861 : Montgomery, Ala.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ordinances and Constitution of the State of Alabama: with the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America (Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish, 1861), by Alabama (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Journal of Both Sessions of the Convention of the State of Arkansas (Little Rock: Johnson and Yerkes, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- House Journals, by Florida House of Representatives (partial serial archives)
- Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Florida, Begun and Held at the Capitol in the City of Tallahassee, on Thursday, January 3, A. D. 1861 (Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal, 1861), by Florida Secession Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Florida, at Called Sessions, Begun and Held at the Capitol in Tallahassee, on Tuesday, February 26th, and Thursday, April 18th, 1861, by Florida Secession Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia, Held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861, Together with the Ordinances Adopted, by Georgia Convention of the People (1861 : Milledgeville and Savannah, Ga.)
- Proceedings of the Convention Establishing Provisional Government of Kentucky; Constitution of the Provisional Government; Letter of the Governor to the President; President's Message Recommending the Admission of Kentucky as a Member of the Confederate States; Acts of the Provisional Government Passed at Bowling Green (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863), ed. by J. P. Burnside and P. B. Thompson (1943 reprint; page images at uky.edu)
- Extracts from the Journal of the Twenty-Third Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Louisiana: Containing an Extract From the Address of the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese; Also, the Report of the Committee on the State of the Church, With the Resolutions Thereupon Adopted (New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861), by Episcopal Church Diocese of Louisiana, contrib. by Leonidas Polk
- Journal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in March 1861 (1861), by Mississippi Convention (1861)
- Journal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in January, 1861; With an Appendix (Jackson, MS: E. Barksdale, 1861), by Mississippi Convention (1861)
- Proceedings of the Mississippi State Convention, Held January 7th to 26th, A. D. 1861, by Mississippi Convention (1861) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention (June, 1861), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of North Carolina (1862), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862)
- Journal of the Convention of the People of North Carolina (Raleigh: J. W. Syme, 1862), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- South Carolina Secedes (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1960), by John Amasa May and Joan Reynolds Faunt, contrib. by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Correspondence Between the Commissioners of the State of So. Ca. to the Government at Washington and the President of the United States Together with the Statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1861), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862)
- Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina From the Federal Union; and, The Ordinance of Secession (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1860), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ordinances and Constitution of the State of South Carolina, with the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America (1861), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860, 1861 and 1862, Together With the Ordinances, Reports, Resolutions, Etc. (Columbia, SC: R. W. Gibbes, 1862), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journal of the Public Proceedings of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860-'61, Together with the Ordinances Adopted (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1860), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862)
- Northern Interests And Southern Independence: A Plea For United Action (Philadelphia: W. S. and A. Martien, 1863), by Charles J. Stillé
- Remarks of Hon. Bedford Brown, of Caswell, Made in the Senate of North Carolina on Dec. 19th, 1860, on the Resolutions of Mr. Hall, of New Hanover, on Federal Relations (ca. 1860), by Bedford Brown
- A Lecture on Secession, by Gen. Andrew Jackson, Delivered at Dodworth's Hall on the Evening of Sunday, Jan. 19, 1861, Mrs. Cora L. V. Hatch, Medium (New York: S.T. Munson, 1861), by Cora L. V. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
- Prescience: Speech Delivered by Hon. Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, in the Southern Convention, Held at Nashville, Tenn., April 13th, 1850 (Richmond, VA: West and Johnston, 1862), by Beverley Tucker
- Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (1864), by Ernest Charles Jones (page images at Cornell)
- Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 (Huddersfield, UK: Printed by H. Fielding, 1864), by J. D. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Proceedings of a Meeting of Bishops, Clergymen, and Laymen, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States, At Montgomery, Alabama, On the 3d, 4th, 5th & 6th of July, 1861 (Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish and Co., 1861), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
- The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee (Philadelphia: Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1863), by Hermann Bokum
- Tupelo (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Co., 1905), by John H. Aughey
- "That D----d Brownlow": Being a Saucy and Malicious Description of Fighting Parson William Gannaway Brownlow (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1978), by William Gannaway Brownlow, ed. by Steve Humphrey (multiple formats with commentary at appstate.edu)
- Public Acts of the State of Tennessee, Passed at the Extra Session of the Thirty-Third General Assembly, April, 1861 (Nashville: J. G. Griffith and Co., 1861), by Tennessee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Constitution of the State of Texas, as Amended in 1861; The Constitution of the Confederate States of America; The Ordinances of the Texas Convention: and an Address to the People of Texas (1861), by Texas (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas, 1861 (Austin: Austin Printing Co., 1912), by Texas Convention (1861), ed. by Ernest William Winkler
- Journal of the Acts and Proceedings of a General Convention of the State of Virginia: Assembled at Richmond, on Wednesday, the Thirteenth day of February, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One (Richmond: W. M. Elliott, 1861), by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Documents Submitted to the Convention of 1861 (53 documents (no document #39); ca. 1861), ed. by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
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