It didn’t bring the United States into being ... but “does the Declaration provide an adequate justification for secession?” And it manifestly does not. If the secessionist cause is to ...

and that they are waging war in such corporate capacity under the corporate name of the "Confederate States ... is to say that secession has been accomplished. It is to admit precisely what ...

California might leave the United States and become a free and independent country. The idea of California becoming its own ...

Mr. MAGRATH introduced an ordinance that the Judges of the Courts take cognizance in cases in admiralty and maritime jurisdiction for all offences, as under the laws of the United States ...