Secession

". . . Whereas, there has grown up in the Eastern States a financial oligarchy, with Wall Street as the center of the Union; and

"Whereas, Wall Street interests are now seeking to obtain absolute control of the balance of the Union; therefore

"Be it resolved, that the remaining 39 States secede from the Union, carrying with us the Star-Spangled Banner and leaving them the Stripes which they richly deserve."

North Dakota's 48 State Senators meeting in a Bismarck auditorium- rose and cheered deaf 83-year-old Senator William Martin last week when for the first time since the Civil War Secession was publicly proposed in a State Legislature. Senator Martin's resolution would leave in the Union only the New England States, New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Next day the North Dakota Senate voted. 28-to-20, to publish his resolution in the Senate Journal. Cried Senator Bonzer: "This is a message to the East that North Dakota be recognized and have a place in the Union. The sons of the wild jackasses have gone without feed too long." Past moves toward Secession: 1803-04 -- Disgruntled because the Louisiana Purchase had cost the New England Federalists their political power, Senator Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts led a campaign for secession of the New England States. New York and New Jersey.

1814--Delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island met in the Hartford Convention, accused the Federal Government of giving them inadequate protection from the British, talked secession.

1832--South Carolina passed its ordinance to nullify the tariff, threatened secession.

1860-61--South Carolina seceded, followed by Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

*The North Dakota Capitol burned to. the ground two years ago (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931).

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