Secession, that is . . . . .
In 1839, John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, Sixth President of the United States, member of Congress, delivered an address celebrating the Jubilee of the U.S. Constitution. In it, he affirmed the principle of secession. "But the indissoluble link of union between the people of the several states of this confederated nation, is after all, not in the right, but in the heart. If the day should ever come, (may Heaven avert it,) when the affections of the people of these states shall be alienated from each other; when the fraternal spirit shall give away to cold indifference, or collisions of interest shall fester into hatred, the bands of political association will not long hold together parties no longer attracted by the magnetism of conciliated interests and kindly sympathies; and far better will it be for the people of the disunited states, to part in friendship from each other, than to be held together by constraint."[/u]
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