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Union leaders were Judge Benajah S. Bibb, James Abercrombie, Thomas J. Judge, Henry W. Hilliard, Thomas H. Watts, Senator William R. King,--nearly all Virginians or North Carolinians by birth or descent. At the State
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Union Convention held in Montgomery, January 19, 1851, among the more prominent delegates were: Thomas B. Cooper, R. M. Patton, W. M. Byrd, B. S. Bibb, J. M. Tarleton, W. B. Moss, James H. Clanton, L. E. Parsons, Robert J. Jamison, Henry W. Hilliard, R. W. Walker, Thomas H. Watts, Nicholas Davis, Jr., and C. M. Wilcox,--all were Whigs, and were Virginians, North Carolinians, and men of northern birth. This meeting denied the
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right of secession. The Union candidates for Congress were C. C. Langdon, James Abercrombie, Judge Mudd, William R. Smith, W. R. W. Cobb, George S. Houston, and Alexander White,--each of whom denied the
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right of secession, but said nothing about it as a
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Unionists --the old Whigs and the Jacksonian Democrats--were successful in the elections, but by accepting, though disapproving, the Compromise measures, and by repudiating the doctrine of secession as a
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Union party in 1851-1852, the Southern Rights Associations resolved to suspend for a time the debate on secession. Thereupon the
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Union Democrats resumed their old party allegiance and the
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Union party was left to consist of old Whigs alone. The Whigs wished to continue the
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Union organization, for they no longer found it possible to act with the northern Whigs, and in 1852 several of their prominent leaders in Alabama refused to support the Whig presidential ticket. On the other hand, the extreme
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Southern Rights