Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh, and Chickamauga.
True, Aceh's secession might lead to a more general unravelling of Indonesia (see article), and Africa's fragile polities might crack up completely, but maybe that, in time, would all be for the better.The trouble with fissionMaybe.
International law does not grant a general right to secede, nor does it forbid secession.
In July 2007 the former President of Biafra, General Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, renewed calls for the secession of the Biafran state as a sovereign entity.
It would have to include not only an account of the connection between the right to secede and the right to recognition, but also a theory of justified intervention in support of or against secession that would cohere with a more general position on the legitimate use of force across borders.
And only a fraction of that number say they want another vote on the question.Mr Bouchard hopes to enthuse them by holding an "estates-general" on language, the issue on which support for secession has always hung.
During the war, the Missouri legislature awarded him the commission for a painting of General Lyon, credited with having done much to prevent Missouri's secession.
His Home Rule Bill was rejected in Parliament in June by a large secession of Whigs, and in the country at a general election in July, and Gladstone resigned office.
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, hoping to negotiate a solution to Katanga's secession, agreed to meet Tshombe at Ndola.
Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman (R), who is running to be the state's next attorney general, told WorldNetDaily in September that he has been preparing for secession in case "the rest of the country falls apart".
