Annexed is the "Declaration of the causes which justify the secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union," an extended abstract of which has already been furnished by telegraph: The State of ...

South Carolina may resolve upon secession, -- may declare herself out of the Union, -- may withdraw her Senators and Representatives from Congress, -- refuse to permit her citizens to be ...

South Carolina secedes from the Union and was quickly followed by Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South ...

“The Union, I think that they do,” Haley ... Haley declined to say if she would support South Carolina if it “needed” to secede, when asked. “You know, I’m one of those people that ...

Schulman said this goes back to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, and when South Carolina tried to secede ... The decision said states cannot secede from the union by an act of state.

That view contradicts centuries of history and precedent. Texas has the right to secede from the U.S. if its citizens decide to do so, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley argued on ...