A. J. Walton was the Gates County representative to the North Carolina secession convention.

As Mississippi debated the secession question, the state called a secession convention which met in January 1861.

Powell was elected to represent Jones County at the convention but when he did so, he voted for secession.

County residents, however, were largely pro-Union in the years leading up to the war, as was true of much of Georgia's mountainous north, and the county's delegates to the state convention of 1861 voted against secession.

As a delegate to the Mississippi convention of 1851, called by Democratic Governor John A. Quitman to build momentum for secession, Alcorn helped defeat that movement.

The state convention on secession also established a state army and Moore appointed Bragg its commander, with the rank of major general, on February 20, 1861.

He considered it folly for South Carolina to act alone ; but he was strongly in favor of secession, and in 1850, as a delegate to the Nashville convention, he declared himself friendly to the scheme, then first agitated, of a separate southern confederacy.

He was elected to represent Pulaski County at the 1861 secession convention in Little Rock, where he voiced his opposition.

In 1861, Stephens was elected as a delegate to the Georgia special convention to decide on secession from the United States.

He voted against secession in the convention but asserted the right to secede if the federal government continued allowing northern states to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law with " personal liberty laws.

He was chosen as a delegate to the secession convention in Mississippi, where his brother John was serving as governor.

Nevertheless, he voted for secession as a member of the convention.

McRea left Hopefield shortly after the Arkansas State secession convention dispatched a political General, Thomas H. Bradley of Crittenden County, to assume command.

Once the election returns were certain, a special South Carolina convention declared " that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the ' United States of America ' is hereby dissolved ", heralding the secession of six more cotton states by February, and the formation of an independent nation, the Confederate States of America.

I was still a member of the Alabama legislature and the governor issued a call for a special session of the legislature which met at the same time that the secession convention met at Montgomery.

Significant actions of the General Assembly include the calling of the constitutional convention which became the first to ratify the United States Constitution in 1787 ( which led to Delaware's state nickname, " the First State "), and its rejection of secession from the Union on January 3, 1861, even though Delaware was a slave state.

Another reason for Delaware's decision to stay in the Union was that Delaware had been separated from the rest of the Southern States when Maryland's secession convention was thwarted by Federal troops.

After the secession of Southern states began, the newly elected governor of Missouri called upon the legislature to authorize a state constitutional convention on secession.

A statewide convention first met on February 13 and after Fort Sumter it voted for secession on April 17, 1861.

Chosen as a delegate to the Arkansas secession convention, Boudinot served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army, and was elected as an Arkansas Territory representative in the Confederate Congress.

In 1861 Waller represented Austin County at the Texas secession convention.

As one of the last living signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, he was given the honor of signing the secession ordinance first after the convention president Oran Milo Roberts.

In late May 1861, just before the secession vote, delegates of the East Tennessee Convention met at Temperance Hall in Knoxville in hopes of keeping Tennessee in the Union.

The ordinance proposed the question of secession to the western portions of the territory and on March 28 a second convention in present day Tucson, Arizona also met and ratified the ordinance.

In late October, a convention organized by Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson met in Neosho and passed out an ordinance of secession.

On October 28, 1861, in Neosho, Missouri, some secessionist members of the Missouri General Assembly met ( with Jackson present ) and passed an ordinance of secession.

On February 13, 1861, the secession convention met in Richmond and numbered William B. Preston amongst the delegates.

He participated in the secession convention that met at Austin on January 31, 1861.

Before the first plebeian secession in 494 BC, the plebeians probably met in their own assembly on the basis of the curiae.

He was elected to the Secession Convention which met in Austin in January 1861 which voted for secession, leading to eventual Texas membership in the Confederacy.

Miles enrolled at the College of Charleston in 1838 where he met future secession advocates James De Bow and William Henry Trescot.

Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the U. S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.

South Carolina Governor Pickens was among the states ' rights advocates who felt that all property in Charleston harbor had reverted to South Carolina upon that state's secession as an independent commonwealth.

He represented the state at the national convention in Charleston, SC, in 1860 and was present at the secession convention in Montgomery.

A delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Conventions in Charleston and Baltimore, Steele chaired the 1861 state convention which passed the ordinance of secession at the beginning of the American Civil War.

Andrew Pickens Butler argued against Charleston publisher Robert Barnwell Rhett, who advocated immediate secession and, if necessary, independence.

By the end of 1860, secessionists had adopted it as theirs ; on 20 December the band played " Dixie " after each vote for secession at St. Andrew's Hall in Charleston, South Carolina.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

South Carolina adopted an ordinance of secession on December 20, 1860, and Mississippi did so on January 9, 1861.

Moderates said this could be easily accomplished as soon as Confederate armies surrendered and the Southern states repealed secession and accepted the 13th Amendment – most of which happened by December 1865.

In the presidential campaign of 1860 he supported John C. Breckinridge, and on December 22, soon after the election of Abraham Lincoln, sent a telegram to Georgia that asserted that " secession by the 4th of March next should be thundered forth from the ballot-box by the united voice of Georgia.

From the New York Times of December 3, Wheeler quoted Horace Greeley: " If seven or eight contiguous States shall present themselves authentically at Washington, saying: " We hate the Federal Union ; we have withdrawn from it ; we will give you the choice between acquiescing in our secession and arranging amicably all incidental questions on the one hand, and attempting to subdue us on the other ", we could not stand up for coercion, for subjugation, for we do not think it would be just.

A quarrel between the moderate and the more advanced sections of the Catholic Committee led, in December 1791, to the secession of sixty-eight of the former, led by Lord Kenmare ; and the direction of the committee then passed to more violent leaders, of whom the most prominent was John Keogh, a Dublin tradesman, known as ' Gog '.

On 20 December, the state of South Carolina declared its secession from the Union.

In 1918, the region of Vojvodina proclaimed its secession from Austria-Hungary to unite with the pan-Slavic State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs ; the Kingdom of Serbia joined the union on 1 December 1918, and the country was named Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

In December 1924, French General Maxime Weygand announced the secession of the State of Alawites, which was proclaimed independent in 1925.

Supply arrived at Pensacola, Florida, on 7 December 1860, just a month and a day after Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, precipitating the secession crisis.

Cass resigned on December 13, 1860, because of Buchanan's failure to protect federal interests in the South and failure to mobilize the federal military, actions that might have averted the threatened secession of Southern states.

On December 20, 1860, shortly after Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, South Carolina adopted an ordinance declaring its secession from the United States of America and by February 1861, six more Southern states had adopted similar ordinances of secession.

Under the cover of darkness on December 26, six days after South Carolina declared its secession, Anderson abandoned the indefensible Fort Moultrie, ordering its guns spiked and its gun carriages burned, and surreptitiously relocated his command by small boats to Sumter.

By December 1860 secession was being publicly debated throughout Virginia.

On December 22, 1860, with secession still in its early stages, Milne ’ s orders were to avoid “ any measure or demonstration likely to give umbrage to any party in the United States, or to bear the appearance of partizanship on either side ; if the internal dissensions in those States should be carried to the extent of separation .” Until May 1861, in compliance with these instructions and as part of a long-standing policy of the Royal Navy to avoid ports where desertion was likely, Milne avoided the American coast.

But there are also claims that it was flown for a short period of time in South Carolina after its secession on December 20, 1860.

With the question of slavery becoming even more critical following the territorial acquisitions of the Mexican – American War, John C. Calhoun delivered an inflammatory address in December 1848 urging leaders of the southern states to resist " Northern aggression ", even if it meant secession from the Union.

He gave an impassioned speech in San Antonio in December 1860, strongly opposing secession and calling for the " perpetuity of the national Union.

Immediately after South Carolina's secession in December 1860, Blair, believing that the southern leaders were planning to carry neutral Missouri into the movement, began active efforts to prevent it.

Lincoln's election in November led to a declaration of secession by South Carolina on December 20, 1860.

He represented Alabama's second district as a Democrat in the United State House of Representatives from 5 December 1859 until 21 January 1861, when he retired upon the secession of his state.

The secession came about indirectly following a decision at the NAS Conference that year to prohibit NAS members from continuing to also be members of the NUT after 31 December 1922.

They first targeted South Carolina, which passed an article of secession in December 1860.