[billbears]

The New England states, whose citizens are the fiercest opponents of the Southern states, did not always avow the opinions they now advocate. Upon the purchase of Louisiana by Mr. Jefferson, they virtually asserted the right of secession through their prominent men; and in the convention which assembled at Hartford in 1814, they threatened the disruption of the Union unless the war should be discontinued. The assertion of this right has been repeatedly made by their politicians when their party was weak, and Massachusetts, the leading state in hostility to the South, declares in the preamble to her constitution, that the people of that commonwealth "have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free sovereign and independent state, and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not, or may hereafter be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled

Hartford Convention bump!!

[Non-Sequitur]

Good thing for them they never tried unilateral secession. Turns out that they would have been as wrong in 1814 as the southern states were in 1861.

[one2many]

Thank you.

The existence of the Hartford Convention puts the lie to everything that a number of the "leading lights" at FR have to say!

[Non-Sequitur]

Hartford Convention bump!!

Here is a link to the resolution issued by the Hartford convention. Where are the threats?