| On its disruption in 1884 he became head of the seceders, who organized themselves as the Socialist League, and was to lecture and write for the cause with great energy. |
| Over the centuries, schisms occurred in which the seceders switched allegiance to Rome, forming the Uniate churches. |
| On a 2,813-acre tract roughly 30 miles west, Washington found a Calvinist sect called the Seceders squatting on his land. |
| They are seceders and their participation in institutions of any kind is likely to be enthusiastic but temporary. |
| But the seceders had no legally valid right to form a body corporate. |
