disunionist
Americannoun
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a person who advocates or causes disunion.
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U.S. History. a secessionist during the period of the Civil War.
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Calhoun always denied he was a disunionist and did not live long enough to witness the guns of South Carolina firing on United States forces in Charleston Harbor.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
Brown, John, Kentucky delegate in Congress, allied to Wilkinson; he and Madison have intercourse with Gardoqui; letter advising independence for Kentucky; disunionist, not corrupt; misrepresents action of Continental Congress.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt
The two men did yeoman's service in carrying through the 1850 compromise, and afterward in persuading Georgia not to take part in the Nashville convention—a disunionist scheme which proved abortive.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
Nor was Whittier himself ever a disunionist, even on anti-slavery grounds.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
He said that in talking with a disunionist a few days ago he asked what the South demanded and what would satisfy them.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
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