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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
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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) (multiple formats at archive.org)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
For peace, and peaceable separation. Citizen's Democratic address, to the people of the state of Ohio, and the people of the several states of the West and North. (Cincinnati : The Author, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
A letter from J. J. Speed, of Baltimore, to a landholder of Baltimore County, on the subject of disunion. (Baltimore, Printed by Sherwood & co., 1850), by Joseph J. Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. John Hemphill, of Texas, on the state of the union. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 28, 1861. ([Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1861]), by John Hemphill (page images at HathiTrust)
The constitutionality and rightfulness of secession. ([n.p., 1860]), by Andrew Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession an absurdity : it is perjury, treason & war ; to which are added Treason defined, Declaration of independence, and Constitution of the United States / by Francis C. Treadwell. (New York : Torrey Bros, printer, 1861), by Francis C. Treadwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Right of secession--the impending crisis. Speech of William S. Holman, of Indiana, on the state of the Union, delivered in the House of representatives, January 16, 1861. (Washington, M'Gill & Witherow, printers, 1861), by William Steele Holman (page images at HathiTrust)
An address on the aspect of national affairs and the right of secession. Delivered before the Literary club of Cincinnati, Saturday evening, March 16, 1861, by William Johnston, (Cincinnati : Rickey & Carroll, 1861), by William Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
The questions of the day. An address, delivered in the Academy of music, in New York, on the Fourth of July, 1861. By Edward Everett. (New York : G.P. Putnam, 1861), by Edward Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
The American union : a discourse delivered on Thursday, December 12, 1850, the day of the annual thanksgiving in Pennsylvania, and repeated on Thursday, December 19, in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia / by Henry A. Boardman, D. D. (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1860), by Henry A. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
A broadside for the times / by E pluribus unum. (New York : J.O. Noyes, 1861), by Paulding (page images at HathiTrust)
A campaign tract for 1864. ([n. p., 1864]), by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
The contemplated secession from the federal republic of North America, by the southern states. ([Detroit?, 1860]), by James Dale Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, December 22, 1902, at the banquet of the New England society, of Charleston, South Carolina. (Boston, Press of A. Mudge & son, [1902?]), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
The causes of secession, an essay prepared by J. J. McSwain in 1896 while a student at South Carolina College. (Greenville, S.C., 1917), by John Jackson McSwain (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession: a folly and a crime. by J.R. Ingersoll ... Tr. into Italian language, by C. G. Moroni ... (Philadelphia : King & Baird, printers, 1862), by Joseph R. Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Boyd, delivered at the great union festival, held at Jackson, Mississippi, on the 10th day of October, 1851. Reported especially for the Natchez courier. (Natchez [Miss.] Printed at the office of the Natchez courier, 1851), by Samuel S. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
The revolutionary movement : letter from Hon. Alfred Ely. (Washington : s.n., 1861), by Alfred Ely (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession of South Carolina. Speech of Hon. D. C. De Jarnette, of Virginia, in the House of representatives, January 10, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1861]), by Daniel C. De Jarnette (page images at HathiTrust)
Freedom takes "no step backwards." Speech of Hon. Harrison G. Blake, of Ohio. Delivered in the House of representatives, February 19, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the National Republican Office, 1861]), by Harrison G. Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
State of the Union. Speech of John A. Bingham, of Ohio, in the House of representatives, January 22, 1861. ([Washington, Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1861]), by John Armor Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of William L. Goggin, of Bedford, on federal relations, in the convention of Virginia, on the 26th and 27th February, 1861. (Richmond, Printed at the Whig book and job office, 1861), by William Leftwich Goggin (page images at HathiTrust)
Southern rights documents. Co-operation meeting held in Charleston, S. C., July 29th, 1851. ([Charleston? S.C., 1851?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
A book for every soldier's knapsack. (New York, J. Miller, 1861), by Robert Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
A northern plea for the right of secession. By Geo. W. Bassett. (Ottawa [Ill.] Printed at the office of the Free Trader, 1861), by George W. Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, on the right of secession : delivered in the Senate of the United States, Dec. 31, 1860. ([Washington] : Printed by Lemuel Towers, [1861]), by J. P. Benjamin (page images at HathiTrust)
Relations of states ; speech of the Hon. James Chesnut, jr. of South Carolina / delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1860, on the resolutions submitted by Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Miss., on 1st March, 1860. (Baltimore : Printed by J. Murphy & co., 1860), by James Chesnut (page images at HathiTrust)
A voice from North-Carolina. The secessionists: their promises and performances; the conditions into which they have brought the country: the remedy, etc. Reprinted from the Raleigh (N.C.) standard, of July 31, 1863. (New-York, A.D.F. Randolph, 1863), by R. S. Donnell (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriotism, ([Cedar Rapids, The Torch press, 1913?]), by Jasper Tucker Darling (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter of Hon. Joseph Segar, to a friend in Virginia, in vindication of his course in declining to follow his state into secession. (Washington, D.C. : W.H. Moore, printer, 1862), by Joseph Eggleston Segar (page images at HathiTrust)
Narrative and letter of William Henry Trescot concerning the negotiations between South Carolina and President Buchanan in December, 1860, contributed by Gaillard Hunt. ([New York, 1908]), by William Henry Trescot (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession and slavery: (Boston, A. Williams, & co., 1864), by Joel Prentiss Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
The West for the Union, now and forever. Speech of Hon. Jno. A Gurley, of Ohio, on the state of the Union, delivered in the House of Representatives, January 16th, 1861. ([Washington, McGill & Witherow, printers, 1861]), by Jno. A. Gurley (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession: in the future. (Philadelphia : King & Baird, 1862), by Joseph R. Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
The address / presented by Judge Nisbet, chairman of the Committee of 17 appointed to draft Ordinance of Secession. ([Milledgeville, Ga. : s.n., 1861]), by Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (page images at HathiTrust)
Independence declared, South Carolina, December 20, 1860 ([Charleston, S.C. : s.n., between 1860 and 1865]), by South Carolina. Constitutional Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Convention of December, 1860 : Sunday, December 30, 1860. ([Charleston? S. C. : Evans & Cogswell?, 1860?]), by South Carolina. Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Convention of 1860-'61 : Thursday, April 4, 1861. ([Charleston? S. C. : Evans & Cogswell?, 1861]), by South Carolina. Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
Southern Guardian extra : the Secession Ordinance passed. ([Columbia, S.C. : C.P. Pelham, 1860]) (page images at HathiTrust)
Resolutions expressive of the determination of Georgia to prosecute the present war with the utmost vigor and energy. ([Augusta, 1864]), by Georgia General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
Four essays on the right and propriety of secession by southern states, by a member of the bar of Richmond. (Richmond, Va., Ritchie & Dunnavant, printers, 1861), by James Lyons (page images at HathiTrust)
The Confederate States Almanac, and repository of useful knowledge, for 1862 / compiled and published by H.C. Clarke. (Vicksburg, Miss. : [H.C. Clarke, 1861]) (page images at HathiTrust)
Nebuchadnezzar's fault and fall: A sermon, preached at Grace Church, Charleston, S. C., on the 17th of February, 1861. By the Rev. C. C. Pinckney. (Charleston: Printed by A. J. Burke, 1861), by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of George W. Richardson, of Hanover, in Committee of the whole, on the report of the Committee on federal relations, in the Convention of Virginia, April 4, 1861. (Richmond, Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office, 1862), by G. W. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
The state of the country by Rev. J.H. Thornwell ... (New Orleans, Printed at the "True Witness and Sentinel" Office, 1861), by James Henley Thornwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Governor's communication transmitting documents from Georgia. ([Richmond], n.p., 1862), by Virginia. Governor (1860-1864 : Letcher) (page images at HathiTrust)
Declaration of the causes which justify the secession of South Carlina from the Federal Union. ([Charleston? n.p., 1860?]), by South Carolina. Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the address of a portion of the members of the General Assembly of Georgia. Printed by order of the Convention. (Charleston, Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by W. F. DeSaussure (page images at HathiTrust)
A miscellaneous essay on the political parties of the country, rise of abolitionism and the impolicy of secession. (New Orleans, L. Marchand, 1861), by Robert Ruffin Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
Ordinances & resolutions passed by the state convention of the people of Florida, begun and held in the city of Tallahassee, January 3, 1861. ([S.l. : s.n., 1861]), by Florida. Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
Address to Christians throughout the world / [by a conference of ministers, assembled at Richmond, Va., April, 1863] ([s.l. : s.n., 1863?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
The address of the people of South Carolina assembled in convention, to the people of the slaveholding states of the United States. Printed by order of the Convention. (Charleston, Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention, 1860), by South Carolina. Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. James H. Bell, of the Texas Supreme Court, delivered at the Capitol on Saturday, Dec. 1st, 1860. ([Austin, Printed at the Intelligencer Book Office, 1860?]), by James Hall Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoir of the northern kingdom, written A.D. 1872 [electronic resource] / (Quebeck [i.e. Boston : s.n.], 1901 [i.e. 1808]), by William Jenks (page images at HathiTrust)
A lecture on the American war of secession [electronic resource] / delivered by Dugald MacDonald, on the 9th of August, 1864, in the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, Montreal. ([Montreal? : s.n.], 1865), by Dugald MacDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
The union not a compact : a speech / (New York : H.H. Lloyd & Co. ; London : Trubner & Co., 1860), by Daniel Webster and United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson) (page images at HathiTrust)
Disunion and its results to the South : a letter from a resident of Washington to a friend in South Carolina. (Washington : H. Polkinhorn, printer, [1861]), by William L. Hodge (page images at HathiTrust)
Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the federal union; and the ordinance of secession. (Charleston, Evans & Cogswell, printers to the Convention, 1860), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoir of the northern kingdom, (Tarrytown, N.Y., Reprinted, W. Abbatt, 1929), by William Jenks (page images at HathiTrust)
A constitutional view of the late War Between the States : its causes, character, conduct, and results presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall / (Philadelphia, Pa. : National Pub. Co. ; Chicago, Ill. : Zeigler, McCurdy, 1868-1870), by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
Benjamin H. Hill, secession and reconstruction (Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press, [1928]), by Haywood J. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journal of the proceedings of the Convention of the people of Florida, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Tallahassee [sic], on Thursday, January 3, A. D. 1861. (Jacksonville, Fla. H. and W.B. Drew Company, 1928), by Florida. Convention and John C. McGhee (page images at HathiTrust)
The American question in its national aspect : being also an incidental reply to Mr. H.R. Helper's "Compendium of the impending crisis of the South" / (New York : H.H. Lloyd & Co., 1861), by Elias Peissner (page images at HathiTrust)
An appeal for the Union. ([Philadelphia?], 1860), by Benjamin Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
Ordinances adopted by the people of the state of Alabama : in convention, at Montgomery, commencing on the seventh day of January, 1861 / (Montgomery : Shorter & Reid, printers, 1861), by Convention of the people of the state of Alabama (1861 : Montgomery) and Confederate States of America. Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
The doom of slavery in the Union: its safety out of it. (Charleston, S.C., Printed by Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by John Townsend and 1860 Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
An address to the people of Barnwell District, on separate state secession. (Charleston, Steam power-press of Walker & James, 1851), by W. A. Owens (page images at HathiTrust)
Argument for separate state action / (Charleston, S.C. : Walker & James, 1851), by J. M. Hutson (page images at HathiTrust)
Faulkner's history of the revolution in the southern states : including the special messages of President Buchanan, the ordinances of secession of the six withdrawing states .... (New York : [T.C. Faulkner?], 1861), by Thomas C. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
Union.--Slavery.--Secession. (Philadelphia, C. Sherman & son, printers, 1861), by R. K. Call (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the address of a portion of the members of the General Assembly of Georgia / (Charleston : Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by South Carolina. Convention (1860-1861) and William Ford De Saussure (page images at HathiTrust)
Special message ... to the Legislature of Georgia : on our federal relations, retaliatory state legislation, the right of secession, &c., November 7th, 1860 / ([s.l. : s.n.], 1860), by 1857-1865 Georgia. Governor and Joseph E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Perils of a dissolution of the Union : a discourse, delivered in the Presbyterian Church, of Roswell, on the Day of Public Thanksgiving, November 20, 1856 /, by N. A. Pratt, printer C.R. Hanleiter & Co, and Ga.) Presbyterian Church (Roswell (page images at HathiTrust)
An ordinance to dissolve the union between the state of South Carolina and other states united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."., by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
An ordinance to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the state of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said constitution., by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond and Charles L. Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
Action of Tennessee Legislature, May 6, 1861 : military league between the state of Tennessee and the Confederate States ... : convention between the state of Tennessee and the Confederate States of America ... : Declaration of independence of Tennessee : an act ot submit to a vote of the people a Declaration of independence and for other purposes ... /, by Tennessee. General Assembly, J. E. R. Ray, B. L. Stovall, and W. C. Whitthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
Mr. Douglas and the doctrine of coercion, ([Charleston, 1860]), by Wm. D. Porter, James Kirke Paulding, and Herschel Vespasian Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Davis and Lee : a protest against the attempt of the Yankee radicals to have them and other Confederate chiefs murdered : a vindication of the Southern States, citizens, and rights by the Federal Constitution and its makers; and an exposure of the perversions of the said Constitution, and the falsification of historical records, by the Massachusetts expounders; also (incidentally) President Johnson's southern and state-rights principles /, by B. J. Sage (page images at HathiTrust)
State of the Union : speech of Hon. Wm. E. Simms, of Kentucky, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 9, 1861. ([Washington : H. Polkinhorn's Steam Job Press, 1861]), by William Emmett Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
H. Con. Res. 24, a concurrent resolution expressing congressional opposition to the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state and urging the president to assert clearly U.S. opposition to such a unilateral declaration of statehood : markup before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, March 10, 1999. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1999), by United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
The Union. Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, January 12, 1861. ([Washington : Printed at the Office of the Congressional Globe, 1861]), by William Henry Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
The causes of the American Civil War. (New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1861), by John Lothrop Motley (page images at HathiTrust)
Tupelo. (Chicago, Rhodes, 1905), by John H. Aughey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Secession : considered as a right in the states composing the late American union of states, and as to the grounds of justification of the Southern States in exercising the right / (Jackson, Miss. : South-Western Confederate Printing House, 1863), by Gentleman of Mississippi (page images at HathiTrust)
Address of Hon. John S. Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina : to the Convention of Virginia, February 19, 1861. (Columbia, S.C. : Steam Power-press of R.W. Gibbes, 1861), by John Smith Preston (page images at HathiTrust)
The philosophy of secession : a southern view, presented in a letter addressed to the Hon. Mr. Perkins of Louisiana, in criticism on the provisional constitution adopted by the Southern Congress at Montgomery, Alabama / ([Charleston, S.C.? : s.n.], 1861), by L. W. Spratt (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of T.N. Crumpler of Ashe, on federal relations : delivered to the House of Commons, Jan 10, 1861. (Raleigh : Printed at the office of the Raleigh Register, 1861), by Thomas N. Crumpler (page images at HathiTrust)
Official report of the History Committee of the Grand Camp C. V., Department of Virginia : I. The right of secession established by northern testimony; II. The North the aggressor in bringing on the war established by their own testimony / ([S. l.] : Committee on Publishing a School History for Use in Our Public and Private Schools, [1900?]), by United Confederate Veterans. Virginia Division. History Committee and George L. Christian (page images at HathiTrust)
An act concerning a convention of the people. ([Raleigh, N.C.] : John Spelman, Printer to the state, 1861), by North Carolina House of Commons and John Spelman (page images at HathiTrust)
North Carolina on the eve of secession / (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1912), by William K. Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession in theory, as the framers of the Constitution viewed it ; secession as practiced and as sustained by the United States ; secession as attempted by the Confederate States / ([Raleigh?, N.C. : North Carolina Literary and Historical Association?, 1908?]), by Robert Bingham and North Carolina Literary and Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Sectional misunderstandings / ([Asheville, N.C., Hackney & Moale Co., 1904?]), by Robert Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Sectional misunderstandings / ([Asheville, N.C.? : R. Bingham?, 1911), by Robert Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Minority report : Mr. Branch, a member of the Select Committee, to whom was referred the message of the President of the 8th of January, by leave of the House, presents the reasons of his non-concurrence with the committee in recommending the passage of "a bill to be entitled 'An act further to provide for calling forth the militia of the United States in certain cases.'" ([Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1861]), by Lawrence O'B. Branch and 2nd session : 1860-1861). House United States. Congress (36th (page images at HathiTrust)
How the southerners supported the War for Secession / (Philadelphia, Pa. : McKinley Pub. Co., 1918), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession in North Carolina / ([Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University, 1905]), by Henry McGilbert Wagstaff (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of T.L. Clingman, of North Carolina, in defence of the South against the aggressive movement of the North : delivered in the House of Representatives, January 22, 1850. ([Washington, D.C.] : Gideon & Co., printers, [1850?]), by T. L. Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
The history of secession / ([New York : G. P. Putnam, 1864?]), by R. S. Donnell (page images at HathiTrust)
Is our republic a failure? A discussion of the rights and wrongs of the North and South. (New York, Authors' Pub. Co., 1877), by E. H. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
Substance of a discourse delivered before the Legislature of Georgia, on the occasion of the fast-day appointed by His Excellency, Joseph E. Brown, November 28th, 1860 /, by A. A. Lipscomb, Nisbet & Barnes Boughton, and Georgia. Legislature (page images at HathiTrust)
Common sense /, by John Dickinson and Tenn.) Republican Banner Office (Nashville (page images at HathiTrust)
Governor's message, transmitted to the Legislature of Florida, November 26, 1860., by Florida. Governor (1857-1861 : Perry) and Madison Starke Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
An address to the people of Florida, from Gen. R.K. Call., by R. K. Call (page images at HathiTrust)
No just cause for a dissolution of the Union in any thing which has hitherto happened : but the Union the only security for southern rights : an oration, delivered before the citizens of Tuscaloosa, Ala., July 4, 1851 / (Tuscaloosa : Warren, 1851), by Frederick A. P. Barnard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
H.R. 5272, Peace through Negotiations Act of 2000 : markup before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, September 26, 2000. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. [Congressional Sales Office], 2001), by United States House Committee on International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
American dis-union: constitutional or unconstitutional? A reply to Mr. James Spence upon the question "Is secession a constitutional right?" discussed in his recent work, "The American union." (London : R. Hardwicke, 1862), by Charles Edward Rawlins (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Convention of the people of South Carolina, (Columbia, S.C., R. W. Gibbes, printer to the Convention, 1862), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862), D. F. Jameson, South Carolina. Constitution, and Confederate States of America. Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
Foreign conspiracy against the United States. ([n.p., 1861]), contrib. by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Gov. Daniel S. Dickinson, an old Jackson democrat, delivered at the great Union meeting held at the City of Albany, May 20, 1863. (San Francisco, Printed by R.C. Moore, 1863), by Daniel S. Dickinson, R. C. Moore, and Union Party. California (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Mr. Foote, of Mississippi, on the admission of California : delivered in the Senate of the United States, August 1, 1850. ([Washington] : Towers print., [1850]), by Henry S. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
State sovereignty and the doctrine of coercion, ([Charleston, S. C., Evans & Cogswell's steam-power presses, 1860]), by Wm. D. Porter, pseud States, and James Kirke Paulding (page images at HathiTrust)
The border states : their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the country / (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1861), by John Pendleton Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
The natural history of secession. (New York : Derby & Miller, 1865), by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
The republic of republics. (New York, ©1881), by B. J. Sage (page images at HathiTrust)
Addresses delivered before the Virginia state convention / (Richmond : W.M. Elliott, printer, 1861), by Fulton Anderson, John Smith Preston, and Henry L. Benning (page images at HathiTrust)
Hear the South! : the state of the country. (New York : printed by D. Appleton & Co., 1861), by James Henley Thornwell (page images at HathiTrust)
A few suggestions upon the personal liberty law and "secession" (so called). In a letter to a friend. (Boston, Printed by J. Wilson and Son, 1861), by Benjamin Franklin Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Missouri State Convention held at Jefferson City, July, 1861. (St. Louis, [Mo.] : George Knapp & Co., Printers and Binders, 1861), by Missouri. Convention (1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
L'état et ses limites : suivi d'essais politiques sur Alexis de Tocqueville : l'instruction publique, les finances, le droit de pétition, etc. / (Paris, Charpentier, 1863), by Édouard Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
The Gordion knot untied : or, A series of familiar letters addressed to Hon. Ben Graham, on the right of a state to secede from the Union : the whole being an examination into the powers of government and the rights of American citizens under the Constitution / (Geneseo, Ill. : G.H. Lewis, 1861), by M. Munson (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession : with a narrative of personal adventures among the rebels / (Philadelphia : G.W. Childs ; Cincinnati : Applegate & Co., 1862), by William Gannaway Brownlow (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter to A.B.J., author of the pamphlet entitled: "The Union as it was and the constitution as it is." (New York, Francis, 1863), by John E. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention held at Jefferson City, July, 1861. (St. Louis, [Mo.] : George Knapp & Co., Printers and Binders, 1861), by Missouri. Convention. (1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
The American union ; its effect on national character and policy. (London : R. Bentley, 1862), by James Spence (page images at HathiTrust)
The crisis of eighteen hundred and sixty-one in the government of the United States. Its cause, and how it should be met. Containing the celebrated proclamation of Andrew Jackson to the South Carolina nullifiers; Webster's answer to Hayne on the subject of nullification, and several extracts from letters written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, pending the adoption of the Constitution. (Indianapolis, Ind., The author, 1861), by A. D. Streight and United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson) (page images at HathiTrust)
Slavery and secession in America, historical and economical. (London, S. Low, Son & Co., 1862), by Thomas Ellison (page images at HathiTrust)
The course of the South to secession; : an interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, / (New York, London, : D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, [c1939]), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, E. Merton Coulter, and American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge memorial fund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Die Amerikanische union; ihre einwirkung auf national- charakter und politik. Nebst einer erörterung der fragen: Ist secession ein constitutionelles recht? und welches sind die ursachen der spaltung? Aus dem Englishschen des James Spence. Autoristrte uebersetzung nach der vierten ausgabe. Herausgegeben von August P. Wetter. (Barmen, W. Langewiesche verlagsbuchhandlung, 1863), by James Spence and August P.. trl Wetter (page images at HathiTrust)
Constitution of form of government for the people of Florida, (Tallahassee, Office of the Floridian and Journal, 1861), by Florida. Constitution and Florida. Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
Our duty as conservatives : a discourse delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church, Sunday November 25, 1860 : occasioned by the threatened secession of some of the southern states. (Philadelphia : Sherman, 1860), by William Henry Furness (page images at HathiTrust)
L'état et ses limites: suivi d'essais politiques / (Paris : Charpentier, 1871), by Édouard Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
The attitude of Tennesseans toward the Union, 1847-1861. (New York, Vantage Press, [1961]), by Mary Emily Robertson Campbell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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, printer, 1861), by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond, Virginia. Constitution, and Virginia. Declaration of Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession resisted. (Philadelphia, King & Baird, 1861), by Joseph R. Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
The effect of secession upon the commercial relations between the North and South, and upon each section. (New York : New York Times, 1861), by Daniel Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
The border states: their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the country. (Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1861), by John Pendleton Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. George W. Summers, on federal relations in the Virginia Convention, delivered March 11, 1861. (Richmond, Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office, 1861), by George W. Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
A vindication of secession and the South from the strictures of Rev. R. J. Breckinridge ... in the Danville Quarterly Review. (Columbia, S. C., Southern Guardian Steam-Power Press, 1861), by B. M. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
A lecture on secession : delivered at Dodworth's Hall on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 19, 1861 / (New York : S.T. Munson, 1861), by Andrew Jackson and Cora L. V. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
Union. - Slavery. - Secession. (Philadelphia, C. Sherman & son, printers, 1861), by R. K. Call and John S. Littell (page images at HathiTrust)
State of the Union : speech / ([Washington : H. Polkinhorn, 1861?]), by Owen Lovejoy (page images at HathiTrust)
The "Peace convention," at Washington, and the Virginia Convention, at Richmond. ([S.l. : s.n., 1861]), by Westmoreland (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. James Dixon, of Conn., delivered in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, June 25, 1862, on his resolution respecting the legal effect of acts or ordinances of secession. (Washington, D. C. : Scammell & Co., printers, 1862), by James Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession; a folly and a crime. (Philadelphia : King & Baird, printers, 1861), by Joseph R. Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
An Authentic exposition of the "K.G.C.", "Knights of the Golden Circle" : or, A history of secession from 1834 to 1861 / (Indianapolis : C.O. Perrine, 1861), by C. O. Perrine (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings and speeches at a public meeting of the Friends of the Union, in the city of Baltimore, held at the Maryland Institute, on Thursday evening, January 10, 1861. (Baltimore : Printed by J.D. Toy, 1861), by Friends of the Union (Baltimore), Reverdy Johnson, Augustus W. Bradford, and William H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
The secession of the cotton states; its status; its advantage and its powers, ([New York?], [1860?]), by W. H. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
Is Davis a traitor; or Was secession a constitutional right previous to the war of 1861? (Richmond, Va., The Hermitage press, 1907), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe and Mary Barksdale Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Union not a compact : a speech / ([n.p., 186-?]), by Daniel Webster and United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson) (page images at HathiTrust)
The indissoluble nature of the American union, considered in connection with the assumed right of secession. A letter to Hon. Peter Cooper, New York. (Boston : A. Williams, 1862), by Nahum Capen and Peter Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
The Constitution not a compact between sovereign states: (New York, Printed by Bergen & Tripp, 1861), by Daniel Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
The American Union: a discourse delivered on Thursday, December 12, 1850, the day of the annual thanksgiving in Pennsylvania, and repeated on Thursday, December 19, in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. (Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851), by Henry A. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters of Curtius. Published originally in the Charleston Courier. (Charleston, S. C., A. E. Miller, 1851), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter of Hon. Joseph Segar, to a friend in Virginia, in vindication of his course in declining to follow his state into secession. (Washington, D.C., W. H. Moore, printer, 1862), by Joseph Eggleston Segar (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Joseph Segar, Esq., of the York District, delivered in the House of Delegates of Virginia, March the 30th, 1861, on the resolutions of the Senate, directing the Governor of Virginia to seize, by military force, the U. S. guns at Bellona arsenal, and on the secession of Virginia. ([Richmond?, 1861]), by Joseph Eggleston Segar (page images at HathiTrust)
The effect of secession upon the commercial relations between the North and South, and upon each section. (London, H. Stevens, 1861), by Daniel Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Mr. H.M. Nelson, in the state convention, Tuesday, March 26th, 1861., by Hugh M. Nelson, Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1861), and Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
Resolutions /, by South Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1860-1862) and Isaac W. Hayne (page images at HathiTrust)
The doom of slavery in the Union: its safety out of it. (Charleston, S.C., Printed by Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by John Townsend and 1860 Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Nullification, secession, Webster's argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions : considered in reference to the Constitution and historically / (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893), by Caleb William Loring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The secession movement in the United States, 1847-1852. ([Tulane, La., Tulane University Press, 1910?]), by Melvin Johnson White (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Convention of the state of Arkansas, (Little Rock, Johnson & Yerkes, state printers, 1861), by Arkansas. Convention and David Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
Ordinances adopted by the Convention of Virginia, in secret session, in April and May, 1861., by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond and Wyatt M. Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
Resolutions in relation to the election of a Black Republican to the office of president of the United States., by South Carolina General Assemblyj and George Alfred Trenholm (page images at HathiTrust)
A series of articles on the value of the union to the South, lately published in the Charleston Standard. (Charleston, Printed by James, Williams & Gitsinger, 1855), by L. W. Spratt (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Missouri State Convention held at Jefferson City, July, 1861; Proceedings of the Missouri State Convention held at Jefferson City, July, 1861 (St. Louis, [Mo.] : George Knapp & Co., Printers and Binders, 1861), by Missouri. Convention (1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
Occasional addresses : and the Letters of Mr. Ambrose on the rebellion / (New York : G.P. Putnam & sons, 1872), by John Pendleton Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
State or province? Bond or free? : addressed particularly to the people of Arkansas /, by Albert Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
The interest in slavery of the southern non-slave-holder. The right of peaceful secession. Slavery in the Bible. (Charleston, Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by J. D. B. De Bow (page images at HathiTrust)
John C. Calhoun and the secession movement of 1850 (Worcester, Mass., 1919), by Herman Vandenburg Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
All around the civil war; or, Before and after, (New York : Printed by Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford company, [c1908]), by William Hawn (page images at HathiTrust)
Letter to His Excellency Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, governor of the state of South-Carolina, on the dissolution of the union. (Charleston, S.C., A. E. Miller, 1850), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
The American union; its effect on national character and policy, with an inquiry into secession as a constitutional right, and the causes of the disruption. (Richmond, West and Johnson, 1863), by James Spence (page images at HathiTrust)
Hear the South! : the state of the country, an article republished from the Southern Presbyterian review / (New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1861), by James Henley Thornwell (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech delivered by Waitman T. Willey, of Monongalia, on Mr. Moore's resolutions on federal relations, in the Convention of Virginia, March 2, 1861. (Richmond, Printed at the Whig book and job office, 1861), by Waitman Thomas Willey (page images at HathiTrust)
No just cause for a dissolution of the Union in any thing which has hitherto happened; but the Union the only security for Southern rights. An oration delivered before the citizens of Tuscaloosa, Ala., July 4th, 1851, (Tuscaloosa, Printed by J. W. & J. F. Warren, "Observer Office", 1851), by Frederick A. P. Barnard (page images at HathiTrust)
The rightful remedy. Addressed to the slaveholders of the South / (Charleston : published for the Southern Rights Association by the Press of Walker & James, 1850), by Edward B. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
The disunionist; or, Secession, the rightful remedy. (Charleston, Pub. for the author, 1850), by Edward B. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
The assertions of a secessionist. (New York, Loyal publication society, 1864), by Alexander H. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
Separate state secession, practically discussed, in a series of articles, published originally in the Edgefield Advertiser, ([Edgefield, S.C.] Advertiser - Print., 1851), by pseud Rutledge (page images at HathiTrust)
Arguments to courts and juries, 1846-1874 / (Cincinnati : Robert Clarke & Co., 1887), by William Johnston and Robert W. Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
Communication from the executive of the Commonwealth, submitting an advice of council, relative to connections with several rail roads in the state., by Virginia. Governor (1860-1864 : Letcher) and John Letcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Second report from the Committee on Rail Road Connections., by Va.). Committee on Rail Road Connections Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
The secession movement in South Carolina, 1847-1852, (Allentown, Pa., H. R. Haas & co., 1918), by Philip M. Hamer (page images at HathiTrust)
The Union wagon / (Boston : O. Ditson, ©1866), by J. J. Hutchinson, Asa Hutchinson, and Hutchinson Family (Singers) (page images at HathiTrust)
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 [Richmond Press, Inc.], 1912), by Virginia. Dept. of Public Instruction and Richmond Confederate Memorial Literary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
The diary of a public man, and A page of political correspondence, (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1946), by F. Lauriston Bullard, James Buchanan, and Edwin M. Stanton (page images at HathiTrust)
The constitutionality and rightfulness of secession. ([n.p., 1860]), by Andrew Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
The constitutional ethics of secession, and "War is hell"; two speeches of Charles Francis Adams delivered respectively at Charleston, S. C. December 22, 1902 and at New York, January 26, 1903. (Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
National fast. A fast day sermon delivered in the City of Flint, January 4th, 1861 ... (Flint, Mich., Wm. Stevenson, 1861), by James S. Smart (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession, concession, or self-possession: which? (Boston : Walker, Wise and Co., 1861), by James Freeman Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
Slavery and secession in America, historical and economical. (London, S. Low, [pref. 1861]), by Thomas Ellison (page images at HathiTrust)
The literary movement for secession, ([New York, Columbia university press, 1914]), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
Northern editorials on secession, (New York, London, D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, [c1942]), by American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund, ed. by Howard Cecil Perkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mississippi, storm center of secession, 1856-1861, (Baton Rouge, La., O. Claitor, 1938), by P. L. Rainwater (page images at HathiTrust)
U.S. responses to self-determination movements : strategies for nonviolent outcomes and alternatives to secession : report from a roundtable held in conjunction with the policy planning staff of the U.S. Department of State / (Washington, DC (1550 M St., NW, Washington 20005) : U.S. Institute of Peace, [1997]), by Patricia Carley and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Mr. Webster, in the Senate, in reply to Mr. Calhoun's speech, on the bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports." Delivered on the 16th of February, 1833. (Washington, Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1833), by Daniel Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
The Confederate secession, (Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1864), by William Schomberg Robert Kerr Lothian (page images at HathiTrust)
Northern opinion of approaching secession, October, 1859-November, 1860, (Northampton, Mass., 1918), by Lawrence Tyndale Lowrey (page images at HathiTrust)
The effect of secession upon the commercial relations between the North and South, and upon each section. (New York : New York Times, 1861), by Daniel Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
The secession movement in North Carolina, (Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1939), by J. Carlyle Sitterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
La question américaine, (Paris, A. Faure, 1865), by William Schomberg Robert Kerr Lothian (page images at HathiTrust)
Nullification, secession, Webster's argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, considered in reference to the Constitution and historically, (New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons, 1893), by Caleb William Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
The secession movement, 1860-1861. (New York, Octagon Books, 1963 [c1931]), by Dwight Lowell Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
The course of the South to secession, an interpretation. (Gloucester, Mass., P. Smith, 1958), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
The natural history of secession; or, Despotism and democracy at necessary, eternal, exterminating war. (New York, Derby & Miller, 1865), by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
The interest in slavery of the southern non-slaveholder. : The right of peaceful secession. The character and influence of abolition. (Charleston : Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by J. D. B. De Bow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
'To one of the people.' ([n.p., A.E. Miller, printer, 1850]) (page images at HathiTrust)
South Carolina and the South on the eve of secession, 1852 to 1860 ([St. Louis, 1919]), by Chauncey Samuel Boucher (page images at HathiTrust)
An address : setting forth the declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of Mississippi from the Federal Union and the ordinance of secession. (Jackson, Mississippi : Mississippian Book and Job Printing Office, 1861), by Mississippi Convention (1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
Disunion : two discourses at Music Hall, on January 20th, and February 17th, 1861 / (Boston : R.F. Wallcut, 1861), by Wendell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
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 / (Austin : J. Marshall, state printer, 1861), by Texas Convention (1861), Confederate States of America. Constitution, Texas. Constitution (1861), and Oran Milo Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Convention of the people of South Carolina, held in 1860-61 : together with the reports, resolutions, &c. / (Charleston : Evans & Cogswell, printers to the Convention, 1861), by South Carolina, David Flavel Jameson, Confederate States of America. Constitution, and South Carolina. Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
The secession movement, 1860-1861 / (New York : The Macmillan company, 1931), by Dwight Lowell Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
Draught of a declaration of independence, proposed to the Convention of the state of Arkansas, and withdrawn from its consideration. (Little Rock [Ark.] R.S. Yerkes, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of both sessions of the Convention of the state of Arkansas, (Little Rock, Johnson & Yerkes, state printers, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) and David Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
Declaration of the causes which justify the secession of South Carolina from the federal union ([Washington : L. Hargrett, 1943]), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
Constitution or form of government for the people of Florida : as revised and amended at a Convention of the people begun and holden at the City of Tallahassee on the third day of January, A.D. 1861 : together with the Ordinances adopted by said convention (Tallahassee : Office of the Floridian and Journal : Printed by Dyke & Carlisle, 1861), by Florida (page images at HathiTrust)
The border states, their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the country. ([n.p., 1860]), by John Pendleton Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
The evils of disunion: a discourse delivered on Thanksgiving day, December 12, 1850; (New Brunswick, N.J., Press of J. Terhune and son, 1850), by Robert Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech of Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, on the resolution proposing to retrocede the forts, dock-yards, &c., to the states applying for the same. (Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1861), by R. M. T. Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
Ireland and secession; an answer to Lloyd George, (Boston, 1920), by Thomas Harrison Mahony and Irish Victory Fund. Bench and Bar Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
The address of the people of South Carolina assembled in convention, to the people of the slaveholding states of the United States / (Charleston : Evans & Cogswell, 1860), by South Carolina. Convention (page images at HathiTrust)
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. (Milledgeville, Ga. : Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, state printers, 1861), by Georgia. Constitutional Convention (1861), George Washington Crawford, and Confederate States of America. Constitution (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. (Montgomery, White, Pfister & so.; Atlanta, Wood, Hanleiter, Rice & co.; [etc., etc.], 1861), by William Russell Smith and Convention of the People of the State of Alabama (1861 : Montgomery, Ala.) (page images at HathiTrust)
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 & Co., printers, 1861), by Convention of the People of the State of Alabama (1861 : Montgomery, Ala.) and Confederate States of America. Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
Address, on the duty of the slave states in the present crisis, [electronic resource]/ (Galveston, Printed at the "News" Book and Job Office, 1860), by J. E. Carnes (page images at HathiTrust)
The past, the present, and the future. ([Washington, D.C. : National intelligencer, 1851]), by Joseph Gales (page images at HathiTrust)
The rebuke of secession doctrines / (Philadelphia : Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1863), by Southern statesman and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (page images at HathiTrust)
The rightful remedy. [electronic resource] Addressed to the slaveholders of the South. By Edward B. Bryan. Pub. for the Southern Rights Association. (Charleston, Press of Walker & James, 1850), by Edward B. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
Is Davis a traitor [electronic resource]; or, Was secession a constitutional right previous to the war of 1861?/ (Baltimore, Printed for the author by Innes & company, 1866), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at HathiTrust)
The right of secession [electronic resource] (Cambridge, Welch, Bigelow, and company, 1861), by Joel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
The constitution and Mr. Motley [electronic resource] (Philadelphia, Pub. for the author, 1861), by John Lothrop Motley (page images at HathiTrust)
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. ([Tallahassee : s.n., 1861]), by Florida. Convention (1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
The diary of a public man; an intimate view of the national administration, December 28, 1860 to March 15, 1861, and A page of political correspondence, Stanton to Buchanan; (Chicago, Ill., Priv. Print. for Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1945), by Frederic Lauriston Bullard, James Buchanan, Edwin McMasters Stanton, and Chicago Abraham Lincoln Book Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the Convention of the people of South Carolina, held in 1860-'61 : 10 (Charleston [S.C.] : Evans & Cogswell, 1861), by South Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1860-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
The south and the right of secession in the early fifties. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1914), by Arthur Charles Cole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
South Carolina, disunion, and a Mississippi Valley confederacy. ([Louisville? : s.n., 1860?]), by S. S. Nicholas (page images at HathiTrust)
Northern editorials on secession. (Gloucester, Mass., Peter Smith, 1964), by Howard Cecil Perkins and American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern editorials on secession / (Gloucester, Mass. : Peter Smith, 1964), by American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund, ed. by Howard Cecil Perkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A review of the proclamation of President Jackson, of the 10th of December, 1832, in a series of numbers originally published in the "Norfolk and Portsmouth herald," under the signature of "A Virginian." (Norfolk, J. D. Ghiselin, 1888), by Littleton Waller Tazewell (page images at HathiTrust)
Northern opinion of approaching secession, October, 1859-November, 1860, (Northampton, Mass., Dept. of history of Smith college, [1918]), by Lawrence Tyndale Lowrey (page images at HathiTrust)
Edmund Ruffin, southerner; a study in secession, (New York, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1932), by Avery Odelle Craven (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The secession movement in Virginia, 1847-1861, (Richmond, Garrett and Massie, [c1934]), by Henry Thomas Shanks (page images at HathiTrust)
Was secession taught at West Point? read at the meeting May 5, 1909, ([Philadelphia?], 1909), by James W. Latta and Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Pennsylvania Commandery (page images at HathiTrust)
Proceedings of the State disunion convention, held at Worcester, Massachusetts, January 15, 1857 ... (Boston, Printed for the committee, 1857), by Massachusetts State Disunion Convention. (1857 : Worcester) (page images at HathiTrust)
Occasional addresses; and the letters of Mr. Ambrose on the rebellion. (New York, G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1872), by John Pendleton Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
Antislavery and disunion, 1858-1861; studies in the rhetoric of compromise and conflict. (New York, Harper & Row, [1963]), by J. Jeffery Auer and Speech Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)
Address of Major-General J.H. Martin at the reunion of the Georgia Division, United Confederate Veterans at Columbus, Ga., October 19th, 1910. (Atlanta, Ga. : C.P. Byrd, State printer, 1911), by J. H. Martin and United Confederate Veterans Georgia Division (page images at HathiTrust)
Address delivered before the South Carolina Historical Society ... May 25, 1877, (Charleston, S.C., Lucas & Richardson, 1879), by John Julius Pringle Smith and Frederick A. Porcher (page images at HathiTrust)
L'état et ses limites : suivis d'essais politiques. (Paris, Charpentier, 1863), by Édouard Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
The cradle of the Confederacy; or, The times of Troup, Quitman, and Yancey. A sketch of southwestern political history from the formation of the Federal Government to A.D. 1861. (Mobile, Printed at the Register publishing office, 1876), by Joseph Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust)
Tupelo / (Lincoln, Neb. : State Journal Company, Printers, 1888), by John H. Aughey (page images at HathiTrust)
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The great rebellion : its secret history, rise, progress, and disastrous failure / (New York : Harpe & brothers, 1866), by John Minor Botts (page images at HathiTrust)
A few suggestions upon the personal liberty law and "secession" (so called). [electronic resource] In a letter to a friend. (Boston, Printed by J. Wilson and son, 1861), by Benjamin Franklin Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Causes of the Civil War in America. By John Lothrop Motley. (London, G. Manwaring, 1861), by John Lothrop Motley (page images at HathiTrust)
The war between the states; or, Was secession a constitutional right previous to the war of 1861-65? (Lynchburg, Va., J.P. Bell Company, Inc., 1915), by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at HathiTrust)
The American union; its effect on national character and policy, with an inquiry into secession as a constitutional right, and the causes of the disruption. (London, R. Bentley, 1862), by James Spence (page images at HathiTrust)
The questions of the day : an address delivered in the Academy of Music in New York, on the 4th of July, 1861 / (New York : H.H. Lloyd & Co. ; London : Trubner & Co., 1861), by Edward Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
The case of the South against the North; or Historical evidence justifying the southern states of the American Union in their long controversy with northern states. (Raleigh, N.C. : Edwards & Broughton, 1899), by Benjamin F. Grady (page images at HathiTrust)
Ordinances and resolutions passed by the State Convention of North Carolina. (Raleigh, N.C. : The Convention, 1862), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
The course of the South to secession; : an interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, / (New York, London, : D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, [c1939]), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, E. Merton Coulter, and American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journals and papers of the Virginia State Convention of 1861. (Richmond, Virginia State Library, 1966), by Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond and Virginia State Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Journal of the proceedings of the Convention of the people of Florida, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Tallahassee [1], on Thursday, January 3, A. D. 1861. (Tallahassee, Office of the Floridian and Journal, printed by Dyke & Carlisle, 1861), by Florida. Convention (1861-1862) and John C. McGhee (page images at HathiTrust)
The republic of republics; or, American federal liberty. (Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., 1881), by B. J. Sage (page images at HathiTrust)
Journal of the convention of the people of North Carolina ... (Raleigh : J.W. Syme, printer to the convention, 1862), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) and Weldon N. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
Ordinances of the State Convention : published in pursuance of a resolution of the General Assembly, [ratified 11th Feb., 1863] (Raleigh : W.W. Holden, printer to the state, 1863), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
Ordinances of the State Convention, which convened in Little Rock, May 6, 1861. (Little Rock, Johnson & Yerkes, State Printers, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) and David Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
A declaration of the causes which impelled the State of Texas to secede from the federal union ([Austin?, 1861]), by Texas Convention (1861) and Oran Mil Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
The natural history of secession; or Despotism and democracy at necessary, eternal, exterminating war. (New York, John Bradburn; Cincinnati, Rickey & Carroll, 1864), by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
Nullification and secession in the United States; a history of the six attempts during the first century of the Republic, (New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons, 1897), by Edward Payson Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
Political history of secession to the beginning of the American Civil War, (New York and London, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1914), by Daniel Wait Howe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The secession movement in the United States, 1847-1852, ([New Orleans, Tulane university press, 1916]), by Melvin Johnson White (page images at HathiTrust)
Secession and constitutional liberty, in which is shown the right of a nation to secede from a compact of federation and that such right is necessary to constitutional liberty and a surety of union; (New York, The Neale publishing company, 1920), by Bunford Samuel (page images at HathiTrust)
Self-determination : sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the right to secession / (Washington, DC (1550 M St., NW, Suite 700, Washington 20005-1708) : U.S. Institute of Peace, 1996), by Patricia Carley and United States Institute of Peace (page images at HathiTrust)
Nullification, Secession, Webster's Argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions: Considered in Reference to the Constitution and Historically, by Caleb William Loring (Gutenberg ebook)
The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One in the Government of the United States.: Its Cause, and How It Should Be Met, by Abel D. Streight (Gutenberg ebook)
The Alternative: A Separate Nationality; or, The Africanization of the South, by William H. Holcombe (Gutenberg ebook)

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