_Seat of sovereignty_, never disturbed heretofore in this country, 154.
_Secession_, the tendency of the Southern movement to, 60;
repeated instances of the assertion of this right in the prior history
of the country, 71;
several instances, 71;
letters, 71;
provision made for, 100;
the right of, to be veiled, 101;
a question easily determined, 168;
the compact between the States was in the nature of a partnership,
168;
law of partnerships, 168;
formation of the Confederation, 169;
do. of the "more perfect Union," 169;
an amended Union not a consolidation, 169;
the very powers of the Federal Government and prohibitions to the
States, relied upon by the advocates of centralism as incompatible
with State sovereignty, were in force under the old Confederation,
170;
arguments of Madison to show that the great principles of the
Constitution and the Articles of Confederation are the same, 170;
extract, 171;
why was it not expressly renounced if it was intended to surrender it?
172;
it would have been extraordinary to put in the Constitution a
provision for the dissolution of the Union, 172;
in treaties there is a provision for perpetuity, but the right to
dissolve the compact is not less clearly understood, 172;
the movements which culminated in, began before the session of
Congress of December, 1860, 201;
action of the author, 201, 202.
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