The Day New York Tried to Secede

[rangerrebew]

The Day New York Tried to Secede

By Ron Soodalter
10/26/2011 • ACW Feature, Civil War, Politics



By Connatix

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Because of a production problem, a portion of this article was omitted from the January 2012 issue of America’s Civil War. It follows here in full.

During the first three months of 1861, New York City boldly flirted with leaving the Union. The reasons were decades in the making, but the sentiment was never more pointed than on January 6, 1861, when New York Mayor Fernando Wood addressed the city council. “It would seem that a dissolution of the Federal Union is inevitable,” he observed, noting the sympathy joining New York to “our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States” and suggesting that the city declare its own independence from the Union. “When Disunion has become a fixed and certain fact, why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master—to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her, take away the power of self-government, and de­stroyed the Confederacy of which she was the proud Empire City?”

http://www.historynet.com/the-day-new-york-tried-to-secede.htm

[DB]

So in many ways New York hasn't changed that much...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

suggesting that the city declare its own independence from the Union. “When Disunion has become a fixed and certain fact, why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master—to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her, take away the power of self-government, and de­stroyed the Confederacy of which she was the proud Empire City?”

http://www.historynet.com/the-day-new-york-tried-to-secede.htm

That mayor would have been a good conservative in today's time.

[TomSea]

Sounds like a typical immoral anti-abolitionist which of course, did exist everywhere.

[Suppressed]

Sounds like a typical immoral anti-abolitionist which of course, did exist everywhere.

LOL

So, do you advocate the US invade any sovereign nation with slavery?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

LOL

So, do you advocate the US invade any sovereign nation with slavery?

Where did you get that from what he wrote?

[DemolitionMan]

You cannot forget the Draft Riots of 1863. Returning men from the Battle of Gettysburg had to quell the riots. New Yorkers never supported the war since the beginning.

http://www.civilwarhome.com/woolor.htm