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Don't look at this one. It's terrible. It's from u/lostmyeffingpassword.
Here's what's happening in UK. It's ugly over there, beware
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1977167078731006120
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1977917946383999170
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1976747879944667433
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1971277377222180988
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1970858689612640670
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1975425419861237782
https://x.com/JBoutsikakisPPC/status/1980021179525013636
They did. But it never really went very far. Once during the war of 1812, but the war ended and made things moot.
Once before the "John Brown" days. But this was really an attempt to dissolve the entire union due to slavery.
A few years before the civil war, again an attempt to dissolve the union and create a northern non slave union.
Not sure what the 4th one is he spoke of. Perhaps it was when the movement was pushed in the press. Pushed by politicians, thru the press. Or when Maine seceded from Massachusetts.
But in a virtual blink of an eye, secession became a southern thing.
Secession talk was common up until the civil war. But after that, talk of seceding was virtually nonexistent. Really, still is. War will do that.
This was all taught at my school. With film and documentary. Not in the books.
One thing from the films that sticks out to me even today. The US government hanged John Brown. Eighteen months later they were marching into battle singing "The Ballad of John Brown"
From what I've read, there were some in MA who considered it, but the state as a whole never tried to succeed. As for the efforts by some in the north to create a northern confederacy, they were there, but a relatively small group. I'm not sure if I would call it an attempt, just a minority advocating for their own view. And yes, once the civil war kicked off, talk of northern secession was off the table.
Independence was a minority position at the beginning. Until people got together a talked about things.
But their children's position, to end slavery. A push to eliminate slavery, whether in one area or the country, was the position that caused secession and war.