At the start of the American Civil War, James G. Taliaferro, a delegate to the state secessionist convention from Catahoula Parish, argued strongly against leaving the American Union.

With the news of the firing on Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861, conservative and moderate strength in the secessionist convention melted away.

The next day, June 20, the convention selected new officers of the Virginia state government ( usually called the " Restored government of Virginia " to avoid confusion with the secessionist government in Richmond ).

With support from the secessionist residents of Mesilla Baylor's 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles entered the territory and took a position in the town on July 25.

Freedom County is a secessionist portion of Snohomish County, Washington, United States declared to exist as of April 23, 1995.

The term can also be applied as an alternative to formal recognition of a secessionist state that has unilaterally declared independence, and whose de jure sovereignty remains in dispute.

Shortly after independence, Albert Kalonji, a Luba tribal chief, declared himself ruler of the secessionist Mining State of South Kasai on Aug. 8, 1960, and established the city, still known as Bakwanga, as his capital.

But Nasir, who was theoretically responsible to then sultan Muhammad Farid Didi, was challenged in 1959 by a local secessionist movement in the southern atolls that benefited economically from the British presence on Gan.

Mexico will be an economically and militarily powerful country capable of challenging the United States, while a Mexican majority in southern regions of the United States will have made them a de facto extension of Mexico, with increasing secessionist sentiment.

Lumumba was later handed to Moise Tshombe's secessionist forces in the southern province of Katanga and murdered.

Field's communications with Gladstone would become important in the middle of the American Civil War, when three letters he received from Gladstone between November 27, 1862 and December 9, 1862 caused a furor, because Gladstone appeared to express support of the secessionist southern states in forming the Confederate States of America.

When Aden in southern Yemen seceded in May 1994, al-Attas served as the Prime Minister of the secessionist Democratic Republic of Yemen until the rebellion ended less than two months later.

The Morrill tariff was adopted against the backdrop of the secession movement, and provided an issue for secessionist agitation in some southern states.

However, the insurgents gradually developed into a secessionist movement composed of the 1955 mutineers and southern students.

Elizabethton is also the historical site of the Transylvania Purchase ( 1775 ), a major historic muster site during the American Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill ( 1780 ) and the Battle of Kings Mountain ( 1780 ), and a local community within the secessionist North Carolina " State of Franklin " territory ( 1784 – 1788 ).

For other flags, please see flags of active autonomist and secessionist movements, flags of formerly independent states, and gallery of dependent territory flags.

The Nigerian government launched a " police action " to retake the secessionist territory.

A secessionist movement SCNC ( Southern Cameroon's National Council ) with an agenda to secede from Cameroon and form a republic with English speaking regions as its territory exists in the North West.

In 1846 the Mexican-American War erupted over the secessionist territory of Texas.

This would be available only to groups that abandoned secessionist demands and the territorial state would retain political and judicial control, but only if would remain with the territorially organized state.

The language of the Anti-Secession Law was clearly directed at the independence supporters in Taiwan ( termed "' Taiwan independence ' secessionist forces " in the law ) and designed to be somewhat amicable for Pan-Blue Coalition.

While a violent Maoist insurgency continues to rage across a wide-swath of eastern rural India, the movement is not considered a secessionist movement because the goal of the Maoists is to overthrow the government of India, although rebel commanders have occasionally called for a Communist republic to be carved out of swaths of India.

Continuing to New York to visit with his wife's family, Thomas stopped in Washington, D. C., and conferred with general-in-chief Winfield Scott, advising Scott that Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs, the commander of the Department of Texas, harbored secessionist sympathies and could not be trusted in his post.

Any real tendency to the secessionist cause, however, could be refuted when he turned down Virginia Governor John Letcher's offer to become chief of ordnance for the Virginia Provisional Army.

It can be assumed that other secessionist movements could have this acronym.

In 2012 the secessionist Parti Québécois was elected to a minority government, with Pauline Marois becoming the first woman to be Premier of Quebec.

Edmund Ruffin, another noted Virginia secessionist, had traveled to Charleston to be present for the beginning of the war, and fired one of the first shots at Sumter after the signal round, a 64-pound shell from the Iron Battery at Cummings Point.

FIGC attempted many times to introduce relegations on the contrary, but the reform was really adopted only in 1921 by the secessionist CCI in its Northern League, which consisted of a First Division and a Second Division: the first teams to be relegated were AC Vicenza and FC Inter even if, after the reunion with FIGC, the regulations were changed, and SSC Venezia was demoted instead of the Milanese club.

As foreign secretary, he was instrumental in supplying arms to support the Nigerian government's crushing of the secessionist movement in Biafra ( when up to one million people died ), later saying " It would have been quite easy for me to say: This is going to be difficult-let's cut off all connexion with the Nigerian Government.

Kentucky's westernmost ( First ) congressional district elected a secessionist and Lincoln proclaimed it to be in rebellion.

When it appeared that a secessionist Democrat might be elected, Republicans abandoned their own candidate and threw their support to McDougall.

Some can be considered separatist ( see List of active autonomist and secessionist movements ).

Many Missouri unionists considered the agreement to be a capitulation to Jackson and the secessionist faction.

The group did not claimed to be secessionist in this document.

The result was a non-violent standoff that was resolved when the secessionist militia marched back to its neighborhood and the conflict was over, to be repeated in the later Secession Crisis that followed the presidential election of 1860.

However, the majority of the conflict's impact was felt in the shipping industry since diplomatic tensions between Britain and the Unionist North had deteriorated after Britain expressed support for the secessionist Confederate South.

He is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederate States of America, having served as the President of the Provisional Confederate Congress, when delegates of the secessionist states issued creation of the Confederacy.

Humphreys supported the secessionist movement that led to the Civil War and accepted an appointment to the Confederate District Court of Tennessee on which he served from 1861 to 1865.

An ardent secessionist, Wharton enlisted in the Confederate Army as captain of Company B, Eighth Texas Cavalry, also known as " Terry's Texas Rangers.

In 1861 with the secession of a number of Southern states to form the new Confederate States of America, the regiment moved from its dispersed posts in the Department of the Pacific to Southern California to suppress any secessionist uprising.

After this, Iraq started supporting secessionist movements in Khuzestan, and even raised the issue of its territorial claims in the next meeting of the Arab League, without any success.