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
Since Mr. Rhodes, uncompromising Unionist, can write as he does upon this issue, it is plain that the opposition party cannot be dismissed as through and through disunionist.
From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
Not a disunionist, at all events; but a disunionist in a certain event.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett
Since that eventful day New Orleans has never been in disunionist hands.
From History of the United States, Volume 4 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
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
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