Meanings of peaceable secession in English

Many public men in the North urged peaceable secession, notably, Horace Greely.

The man who believes in peaceable secession must be an idiot.

There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession.

There can be no such thing as peaceable secession.

By deliberate act of the Confederate government its attempt at peaceable secession had been changed to active war.

We must kill, once for all, the doctrine of peaceable secession, which is nothing else than national disintegration and ruin.

The angry Commissioners returned home, leaving behind them an insolent rejoinder, charging the President "with tacit consent to the scheme of peaceable secession!"

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Peaceable secession is an utter impossibility.

Peaceable secession, in my judgment, is a fatal, a deadly illusion....

Peaceable secession, you see, we cannot have; and if it must come in bloodshed, why, in the name of mankind, let it come!