Sentences with phrase «southern secessionists»
The southern secessionists of 1861 were claiming that their behavior was not an overturning of the Constitution, but lawfully consistent with it.
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The British, for their part, cleverly borrowed Abraham Lincoln, whose argument against southern secession seemed to them to rebut the pretensions of the American «secessionists» of 1776.
It strengthened Northern slavery opposition, divided the Democratic Party on sectional lines, encouraged secessionist elements among Southern supporters of slavery to make bolder demands, and strengthened the Republican Party.