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Conservative party in other southern states and with the Democrats in the North and formed the
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National Union Party. Its platform was essentially the presidential plan of Reconstruction.[1058] The campaign of 1866 was made on many issues,--the Civil Rights Bill, Freedmen's Bureau Bill, Fourteenth Amendment, the plans of Reconstruction. Ex-Governor Parsons and other prominent Alabamians spoke in the cities of the North in support of the policy of the President. Ex-Governor Shorter, in a public letter, said that he had been a