seed-bill

Updated: May 27, 2025

Many will understand what is meant by a threat of secession, where few take heed of the baneful principle involved in a Texas Seed-bill. That the American people are still fairly alive to the importance of these considerations, is due to the weary ages of struggle in which our forefathers have manfully contended for the right of self-government.

John Fiske - The Beginnings of New England: Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty