The declaration issued by South Carolina in 1860 dissolving its union with the United States. The other Southern States followed with similar declarations.
Second Charlemagne.
A sobriquet of Charles V, Emperor of Germany (1519-58).
Second Washington.
Henry Clay, the American statesman (1777-1852), was so called.
Secret Treaty.
A document published in the Times of July 25, 1870, purporting to be the text of a treaty between France and Prussia, containing the following provisions: the recognition by France of Prussia’s acquisitions in the war with Austria; an undertaking by Prussia to use her influence with Holland to secure Luxemburg for France, and to aid France if she found it necessary to undertake the conquest of Belgium, providing a force if required to resist any foreign interference; an undertaking by France not to oppose Prussia’s designs for the unification of Germany. Whether this treaty was ever signed or not, there is little doubt that proposals of this nature were made to Bismarck by Benedetti, Napoleon’s minister at Berlin.
Sections, Journée des.
October 5, 1794, on which day the troops of the Convention, under Buonaparte, routed the National Guard of the “Sections” of Paris and established the rule of the Directoire, thus marking the end of the Revolution.