Sentence examples for declaration of secession from inspiring English sources

Nor could town officials and local historians find North Hempstead's original Declaration of Secession.

Consider the language of South Carolina's declaration of secession from the Union.

There was a Miss Confederate beauty pageant, parades, and even a re-enactment of South Carolina's declaration of secession.

They also contend that the leaders of the Catalan party have always known that Mr. Zapatero would oppose any declaration of secession rights and that he has made it clear to them that his position is not negotiable.

He had the misfortune to be born into an impoverished southern aristocratic family, the great-great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Secession that took South Carolina out of the union.

North Hempstead did not officially become its own town until 1784, when the State Legislature approved its creation, but the seed for its existence was planted on Sept. 23, 1775, when a group of residents met at a tavern in Cow Neck (now Port Washington), and issued a Declaration of Secession.

If really wondering what Civil War was about, read the actual declarations of secession.

Four confederate states -- Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas -- issued declarations of secession in order to expound upon their reasons.

Those who believe slavery was not a central point of conflict in the Civil War may wish to peruse the South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas declarations of secession.

The Manifesto of the Province of Flanders (1790) was the first foreign derivation of the Declaration; others include the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (1811), the Liberian Declaration of Independence (1847), the declarations of secession by the Confederate States of America (1860 61), and the Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (1945).

For example, Texas' Declaration for Cause of Secession in 1861 was centered on the hatefully exclusionary premise that the governments of various states were established solely for and by a superior white race and that Blacks were naturally inferior and should remain as such.