The world: historical and actual . o true a pa-triot as Patrick Henrydenounced the consti-tution as an infringe-ment upon the rights ofthe states. The issuethus raised was not sec-tional. And in lateryears there were notwanting those at theNorth who denouncedthe Union and the Constitution. The systematicinculcation of the doctrine that states were sov-ereign and the Union a partnership liable to bechanged by the withdrawal of any partner, maybe fairly attributed to John C. Calhoun. But asearly as 1798 a convention was held in Kentuckywhich adopted the same theory of the manifesto wa
The world: historical and actual . o true a pa-triot as Patrick Henrydenounced the consti-tution as an infringe-ment upon the rights ofthe states. The issuethus raised was not sec-tional. And in lateryears there were notwanting those at theNorth who denouncedthe Union and the Constitution. The systematicinculcation of the doctrine that states were sov-ereign and the Union a partnership liable to bechanged by the withdrawal of any partner, maybe fairly attributed to John C. Calhoun. But asearly as 1798 a convention was held in Kentuckywhich adopted the same theory of the manifesto was the formal expression of thefundamental political principle of the ConfederateStates. The right of secession was also defended uponthe broad ground that when nearly ten millions ofpeople, occupying a correspondingly large area, unitein a political movement, however revolutionary, theyhave a right to make the proposed change. In oth-er words, the cause was based on the doctrineof popular sovereignty, or the right of revolution in. STATE HOUSE, MONTGOMERY. distinction from constitutional limitations. Thisposition was maintained hi the debates of Congressand in the various discussions of the day. Such were the doctrines of the Southern first act, however, of secession was the passageby the legislature of South Carolina of the ordi-nance of separation, December 20, 1860. It waspassed without a dissenting vote. Five other statesfollowed the same course, but not with the sameunanimity, during the month following, namely,Mississippi, January 9, 1861; Florida, the 10th;Alabama, the 11th; Georgia, the 19th, and Louisi-ana, the 26th. Texas delayed only until the first day of February. These seven statesalone constituted theoriginal met in a repre-sentative and collectivebody at Montgomery,Alabama, February 4,and organized a newUnion, framed a newconstitution and pro-claimed a new federa-tion, calling it TheConfederate States ofAmerica. From thattime on, such
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