Seceding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SECEDING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SECEDE, to withdraw formally from an alliance
• withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to withdraw formally from an alliance or association

Words related to SECEDING

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How to use SECEDING in a sentence

• In South Carolina, for example, the Governor had recommended both Houses in advance to take measures for seceding if Mr.
• Amid all these preparations for war on the part of the seceding States, and the seizure of Federal property, Buchanan was irresolute and perplexed.
• Virginia on seceding was taken into the Confederacy, and the Confederate capital changed from Montgomery to Richmond.
• Lee was a Virginian, and Virginia, about to secede and at length seceding, in most earnest tones besought her distinguished son to join her.
• A compromise, however, was effected, and the seceding members took their seats on the following day.
• Even if seceding States could be conquered back again, they would not be worth the conquest.
• But that which is now the condition of Virginia must ultimately be the condition of the other seceding States.
• Bell and most of his Southern adherents in the seceding States were banded with others in open rebellion.
• Too poor to own slaves to any extent, they had no motive for seceding, and many of them joined our army and were faithful soldiers.
• By seceding, the State Government forfeited all claim to the obedience of the citizens.
• But by seceding it has justified the Federal Government in aiding or organizing a revolution against it, for its utter overthrow and extinction.
• I could not but think the action of the seceding States unwise and dangerous to their future prosperity.
• The latter, holding that while secession was unwise, coercion was tyranny, followed Virginia when she cast in her lot with the seceding States.
• The Union states and territories built during the decade 15,000 miles of railroad, to 7,000 or 8,000 in the eleven seceding states.
• In seceding, the Southern states had only to follow legal methods, and the transaction would be correct in every particular.
• I also enclose you a letter from Colonel Shelby, stating the effect of his success against the seceding Cherokees and Chuccamogga.
• These seceding bands are probably that branch of the Bears who claim their origin in the west.
• Such equitable settlement, the seceding States of the South, without exception, as I believe, were desirous to make, and prompt to propose to the Federal authorities.
• The congress of delegates from the seceding States convened at Montgomery, Alabama, according to appointment, on the 4th of February, 1861.
• Davis did not have a just appreciation of the serious character of the contest between the seceding States and the Union, is wholly untrue.
• Any effort on the part of the others to force the seceding State to consent to come back is an attempt at subjugation.
• The safety of all seceding States requires it as much as the safety of South Carolina.
• The shores of the Red Sea are bold and rocky, exhibiting ranges of picturesque hills, sometimes seceding from, at others approaching, the beach.
• North Carolina, Louisiana, and Alabama would oppose forcible coercion of a seceding State.
• Lincoln maintained towards the seceding communities.
• The exodus of the seceding partners of the Lone Star claim had been scarcely an imposing one.
• This work was done by a convention of delegates chosen by the conventions of the seven seceding states.
• Canning, and those of his opponents with whom he was agreed on the Roman Catholic question, concurred in representing this act of the seceding ministers as a cabal against Mr.
• Before leaving Alabama he did what he could to prevent that state from seceding.
• Seward, Secretary of State, even talked of compensating for the loss of the seceding States by admissions from Canada and elsewhere.
• President Lincoln issued a call for volunteers, and a proclamation announcing a blockade of the coast of the seceding States.
• The only requisite to recognition of a seceding State was to be the discovery of enough loyal or pardoned citizens to set its machinery going again.
• The labor system of the seceding States was a mark so tempting that no belligerent should have been seriously expected to have refrained from aiming at it.
• The third is, that we have no right to prevent her from seceding.
• That the Federal Government is to enforce its laws over the seceding State, and yet not coerce her into obedience, is to me incomprehensible.

Similar words containing SECED without suffix ing

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