disunionists

The leaders of the disunionists were the same who had led the unsuccessful movement of ten years before.

Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North 1901

The disunionists were his partisans, his friends, and confidential counselors; they constituted a remnant of the once proud and successful party which, by his compliance and cooeperation in their interest, he had disrupted and defeated.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

The disunionists were his partisans, his friends, and confidential counselors; they constituted

Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866

His election certainly handed radical disunionists the opening they needed to press immediate secession on the voters, and it was a crucial part of their electoral strategy especially in the Deep South states.

Stephanie McCurry: Was the election of Abraham Lincoln a threat to the South? Stephanie McCurry 2010

His election certainly handed radical disunionists the opening they needed to press immediate secession on the voters, and it was a crucial part of their electoral strategy especially in the Deep South states.

Stephanie McCurry: Was the election of Abraham Lincoln a threat to the South? Stephanie McCurry 2010

The victory quieted the fears of the West and Northwest, destroyed the hopes of the secession element in Kentucky, renewed the drooping spirits of the East Tennesseans, and demoralized the disunionists in Middle Tennessee; yet it was a negative victory so far as concerned the result on the battle-field.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Southern disunionists always claimed that the Constitution allowed secession, i.e., that it was a legal step rather than a revolutionary one.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both? 2009

If Southerners were largely correct in describing what anti-slavery Republicans were about, and Northerners were largely correct in describing what Southern disunionists were plotting, it makes no earthly sense to call everyone paranoid.

Paranoid History Davis, David Brion 1971

They were not disunionists _per se_, but were quite ready to become disunionists, if the Union was to be governed otherwise than in the direct and immediate interest of slavery.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Hostile armies are now marching upon the Federal Capitol, with a view of planting a revolutionary flag upon its dome; seizing the National archives; taking captive the President elected by the votes of the people, and holding him in the hands of secessionists and disunionists.

Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom