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- noun US, historical The political position that the Union (the federal government of the United States) should be dissolved.
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Examples
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Theirs was an oblique disunionism that masked itself behind the facade of constitutional interpretation.
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Theirs was an oblique disunionism that masked itself behind the facade of constitutional interpretation.
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The next year, as a Garrisonian disunionist, he began the publication of a weekly journal in Rochester; but he soon renounced disunionism, maintaining that slavery was illegal and unconstitutional.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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But he could not resist the onrush of disunionism, went with the South, which he served first in the field and later as Confederate Secretary of War, and after a few years of self-imposed exile in Europe returned to Kentucky to die at four and fifty, a defeated and disappointed old man.
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Could he not best serve the administration by bearding disunionism in its den?
Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900
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Probably it was dislike of disunionism which brought down a shower of stones and brickbats on that same day in August, at Nantucket, upon Mr. Page 71
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Garrison believed so firmly in disunionism, that it seemed to him impossible that any of his disciples had found a single error in the creed.
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The loyalty, which hissed at disunionism in the North, soon found itself much better employed in shooting at it in the South.
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Abolitionism was now rapidly becoming synonymous with disunionism in Massachusetts, although there were still many thoroughly loyal and sagacious friends of the slave, like Whittier, who now, according to an opinion expressed by the editor of the "Liberator," on August 12, had become "incapable of doing anything important for the cause." ...
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The next year gave disunionism a complete victory, first in January and then in May, at the three annual conventions in Boston and New York.
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