Noun
The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
The withdrawal of a State from the national Union.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State? Robert E. Lee
It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot. Judah P. Benjamin
A critical feature of the EU(European Union) in general and EMU in particular is that there is no legitimate way for a member to withdraw... The American experience with the secession of the South may contain some lessons about the danger of a treaty or constitution that has no exits. Martin Feldstein
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. Belle Boyd
The secession and the Confederacy's existence were predicated on slavery, on preserving and defending it against containment, as virtually all of its founders from Robert Barnwell Rhett to Jefferson Davis unashamedly declared in 1861. Jefferson Davis
It looks like a political triumph for the south, but it is not. The southern people have nothing to dread more than the political triumph of the men who led them into secession. That triumph was fatal to them in 1860. It would be no less now. Ulysses S. Grant