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  • President, and such a submissionist as James Otis for a member,

    History of Virginia 1924

  • The Democratic press saw in every Whig candidate a submissionist who cared nothing for the interest or honor of his State and section.

    Party Politics in North Carolina, 1835-1860 1916

  • Confederacy, and a submissionist to Northern aggression, though he was at the same time gallantly baring his bosom to the bullets and bayonets of the

    Memoirs of W. W. Holden, 1911

  • If secession were to do over, I expect father's warning voice would no longer be silenced by jeers, and I would no more be hooted at as the daughter of a "submissionist."

    The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, 1908

  • December, prepared not to vote the cowardly submissionist ticket, but to vote the secession

    Tupelo John Hill 1862

  • If the Black Republicans carry their ticket, and Old Abe is elected, our right to carry our slaves into the territories will be denied us; and who dare say that he would be a base, craven submissionist, when our God-given and constitutional right to carry slavery into the common domain is wickedly taken from the South.

    Tupelo John Hill 1862

  • The North has sent teachers and preachers amongst us, who have insidiously infused the leaven of Abolitionism into the minds of their students and parishioners; and this submissionist policy is a lower development of the doctrine of Wendell Phillips, Gerritt Smith, Horace

    Tupelo John Hill 1862

  • Who would be a craven-hearted, cowardly, villainous submissionist?

    Tupelo John Hill 1862

  • Some will say that the remedy is worse than the disease -- but sooner would I see this fair land dreanched in the blood of contending brothers than to see such a fate as the submissionist are preparing for her accomplished.

    Augusta County: John H. Cochran to His Mother, March 3, 1861 John H. Cochran 1861

  • Lucifer was a non-submissionist, and the first secessionist of whom history has given us any account, and the chains which he wears fitly express the fate due to all who openly defy the laws of their Creator and of their country.

    The American Union Speaker 1852

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