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But if we all agree to secede from Christmas, we can lay down the law to folks so's it'll be understood: No Christmas for nobody." "Not to children?" said Mis' Abby Winslow, doubtfully. "My idea is to teach 'em to do entirely without Christmas," harped Mis' Bates. "We can't afford one.
This was particularly the case among the young men of Georgia, who looked upon the leaders of secession in the Palmetto State as very presuming, because these leaders thought and acted as if they were the only representatives of Southern sentiment, and as if the leadership belonged to them as a matter of right. This was shared by Anderson, until he found that Georgia also would certainly secede.
North, "especially if they simply withdraw and hold the fortifications of the general government, in their own territory, to keep the government from destroying their lives." "Why, yes," said Mrs. North, "it would be simple in them, after seceding, to suffer themselves to be bombarded. But have they any right to secede?" "As to that," said Mr.
It was evident, from the time of the Chicago nomination to the close of the canvass, that the election of the Republican candidate would be the signal for some of the Southern States to secede.
"I shall ring for tea," she said, quietly and without a tremor; "do you think there is anything so refreshing after a walk as a dish of tea?" She rang the bell, but its tinkle only made Gavinia secede farther into the cellar, and that summons has not been answered to this day, and no one seems to care, for while the wires were still vibrating Mr.
"You are confident, then, Sir, that fifteen States will secede?" "Secede? Certainly, they must secede. You Northerners, you are from a Northern college, I believe," referring to the writer's card, "you Northerners wish to make a new Constitution, or rather to give such an interpretation to the old one as to make it virtually a new document.
North, "my mind has been much exercised of late with this thought: I have always advocated the right of the negroes to make insurrection, or to flee from oppression. But now their masters complain of being oppressed by the North. Why have not the masters the same right to secede from their government as the negro from his?" "Well, husband," said his wife, "I think that you are getting on fast."
It was in this year that there occurred the famous strife between the "soreheads" and their enemies, whom the former termed the "muckers." The "soreheads" were the sons of certain aristocratic families who resolved to secede from football in case any of the members of Dick & Co. or of other poor Gridley families, were allowed to make places on the team.
At one period he even suggests that, if an article or two were added to the thirty-nine, some change made in the ordination service, and a relaxation granted in the terms of subscription, the Church might be protected from sacerdotalism; and, though some of the clergy might secede to Rome, the Church of England might be preserved as virtually the religious department of the State.
Those counties of Virginia which lay west of the Alleghanies contained a population which was, by an overwhelming majority, strenuously loyal. There had long been more of antagonism than of friendship between them and the rest of the State, and now, as has been already mentioned, the secession of Virginia from the Union stimulated them, in turn, to secede from Virginia.
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