Author: RutledgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Secession
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Separate State Secession
Author: RutledgeSeparate State Secession
Author: RutledgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nullification (States' rights)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Separate State Secession, Practically Discussed
Author: Rutledge RutledgePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333599386
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Excerpt from Separate State Secession, Practically Discussed: In a Series of Articles, Published Originally in the Edgefield Advertiser With the increased trade and commerce of our State, under a separate government, the post-office would easily support itself, although' our mail facilities might be greatly multiplied. But we have allowed to begin the system. Many, doubtless, u ill think too small a sum for a military establishment. We cannot think so. For many years the United States army did not exceed men. It is, at present, not This can scarcely be called a slanding army in so large a Commonwealth. It is very sure that the wise framers of our Republic, carefully excluded from our system a standing army. They saw the danger and expense, as well as the general inutility, of such an institution in a country like this. They supposed - and it is a principle which lies at the bottom of our government - that citizen soldiers would answer all purposes of defence and protection and wars of conquest and invasion never, perhaps, entered the heads of these wise and honest men. They, at all events, deemed them highly dangerous to Republican institutions. Excluding then, a regular army, they introduced a small military force to take care of our military posts, stores, as, and to protect our frontiers from the depredations of the Indians. Time has proved the wisdom of their design. There can be no more dangerous foe to liberty than a large, unemployed, well-trained soldiery. Let us not forget the wise lessons of our virtuous fathers. We want no standing army in time of peace. If our borders be invaded, our citizens, with their strong sinews and stout hearts, by the aid of the officers we may always have among us, can soon be turned into disciplined troops, prepared, at all times, to defend themselves against any forces that can get foothold in their territory. A few hundred men, therefore, to take care of our military stores, arsenals, &c., would be all we should need. Twenty thousand dollars would cover the expenses. But we should enlarge and nurture our present Military Academies, as schools for Officers Eighty thousand dollars would certainly do for this! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
SEPARATE STATE SECESSION PRACT
Author: Pseud RutledgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781372899249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Separate State Secession, Practically Discussed in a Series of Articles
Author: Pseud [From Old Catalog] RutledgePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359649782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War
Author: Michael F. ConlinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108495273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.
American Secession
Author: F.H. BuckleyPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641770813
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Americans have never been more divided, and we’re ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of violence in the name of political virtue—it all invites us to think that we’d be happier were we two different countries. In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of law, we are already two nations. There’s another reason why secession beckons, says F.H. Buckley: we’re too big. In population and area, the United States is one of the biggest countries in the world, and American Secession provides data showing that smaller countries are happier and less corrupt. They’re less inclined to throw their weight around militarily, and they’re freer too. There are advantages to bigness, certainly, but the costs exceed the benefits. On many counts, bigness is badness. Across the world, large countries are staring down secession movements. Many have already split apart. Do we imagine that we, almost alone in the world, are immune? We had a civil war to prevent a secession, and we’re tempted to see that terrible precedent as proof against another effort. This book explodes that comforting belief and shows just how easy it would be for a state to exit the Union if that’s what its voters wanted. But if that isn’t what we really want, Buckley proposes another option, a kind of Secession Lite, that could heal our divisions while allowing us to keep our identity as Americans.
Secession
Author: Thomas H. NaylorPublisher: Feral House
ISBN: 1932595309
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
America has lost its moral authority to huge corporate interests, say Secession movement leaders. This remarkable dossier shows how a seemingly wild political idea continues to grow and create debate on the US' unsustainable, ungovernable and unfixable empire.
Apostles of Disunion
Author: Charles B. DewPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis. The fifteen years since the original publication of Apostles of Disunion have seen an intensification of debates surrounding the Confederate flag and Civil War monuments. In a powerful new afterword to this anniversary edition, Dew situates the book in relation to these recent controversies and factors in the role of vast financial interests tied to the internal slave trade in pushing Virginia and other upper South states toward secession and war.
Break It Up
Author: Richard KreitnerPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0316510599
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn’t limited to the South or the nineteenth century. It was there at our founding and has never gone away. With a scholar’s command and a journalist’s curiosity, Richard Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town’s petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil. From the “cold civil war” that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued, Break It Up will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age.