...States consider the value of the Union debatable, we maintain their perfect right to discuss it. Nay, we hold with Jefferson to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish a form of government that has become oppressive or injurious, and if the Cotton States shall decide...

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...secede. This convention was appointed to be held at Montgomery on February 4. 1 Horace Greeley said : " If the cotton states shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless."...

...York Tribune of November 9th, 1860, discussing the contemplated secession of the Cotton States, wrote: "If the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one but it exists nevertheless;...

...Republicans. The New York "Tribune," which was the Republican Bible, said, three days after the election: "If the cotton states shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists, nevertheless....

...unalienable right of Communities to alter or abolish forms of Government that have become oppressive and injurious; and, if the Cotton States shall decide...can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them depart in peace. The right to secede may be a Revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless;...

...put forth in an elaborate article this declaration: Nay: we hold with Jefferson to the unalienable right of Communities to alter or abolish forms of Government that have become oppressive and injurious; and, if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than...

...York Tribunc, next to Lincoln and Seward the most influential man in the Republican party, wrote : " If the cotton states shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. . . . We hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned...

...question. On the 9th of November, 1860, the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley being the editor, said : "If the cotton states shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless,...

...issue (November 26th, I think it is) has declared that, should the Cotton States become satis^ fled that they can do better out of the Union than in it, it will insist on letting them go in peace and resist all coercive measures to keep them in. And Mr....