Excerpt from The Right of Secession: A Review of the Message of Jefferson Davis to the Congress of the Confederate States During the war waged against Great Britain by her colonies on this continent, a common danger impelled them to close alliance and to the formation of a Confederation, by the terms of which the col ouies, styling themselves States, entered 'severally into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding them selves to assist each other against all force offered to or attacks made upon them or any of them on account of religion, sovereignty, trade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.