It is agreed on all sides that no effort to "compromise" with the States that have seceded would either be of the slightest practical use, or would be consistent with the honor and sovereignty of ...

But just 16 years after becoming a U.S. state, it seceded in the Civil War. Today, Texans still sometimes speak wistfully of becoming their own country again, free of the dysfunction of Washington ...

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded. By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas -- had split from the Union. The seceded states ...

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