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Excerpt from Secession and Constitutional Liberty, Vol. 1: In Which Is Shown the Right of a Nation to Secede From a Compact of Federation and That Such Right, Is Necessary to Constitutional Liberty, and a Surety of Union Hardly any problem affecting the future of humanity is more important than the type and character which the great Republic of the West is hereafter destined to assume? If one accepts Mr. Adams's estimate of the moment of our Civil War (and to reject it consistently one must also Widely differ from Mr. Lecky), how can the discussion of a political doctrine, the cause of so momentous an episode, be, as the former designates it, . Academic? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.