"The right of revolution is indisputable.

It is written on the record of our race.

British and American history is made up of rebellion and revolution....

There can be nothing plainer, then, than the American right of revolution.

But, then, it should be called revolution." "It is strange that Englishmen should find difficulty in understanding that the United States Government is a nation among the nations of the earth; a constituted authority, which may be overthrown by violence, as may be the fate of any state, whether kingdom or republic, but which is false to the people if it does not its best to preserve them from the horrors of anarchy, even at the cost of blood." Motley denied any _right_ of _peaceful_ secession, and his constitutional argument presented adequately the Northern view.