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In American history, the Fire-Eaters were a group of pro-slavery Democrats in the antebellum South who urged the separation of Southern states into a new nation, which became the Confederate States of America. The dean of the group was Robert Rhett of South Carolina.
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Fire-eaters were radical southern secessionists who had long been committed to the dissolution of the United States. When Confederate president-elect Jefferson Davis arrived in Montgomery at 10:00 PM on February 16, 1861, a cheering throng waited at the Exchange Hotel.
23 de may. de 2018 · Fire-eaters were southern political ideologues whose uncompromising demands and radical oratory on the subject of slavery and secession played an important part in driving the nation toward disunion in 1860 and 1861.
Leader of the secessionist wing of the Democratic Party known as the “Fire -Eaters” Fierce advocate for sectional loyalty over party loyalty and national pride. Purposefully caused division within the Democratic Party, breaking the last national institution holding the North and South together.
1 de jul. de 1992 · In this broadly researched and illuminating study, Eric H. Walther examines the lives of nine of the most prominent fire-eaters: Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, William Lowndes Yancey, John Anthony...
The Fire-Eaters. By Eric H. Walther. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1992. Pp. xviii+333). In 1860, a number of Southerners saw the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party as a final indignity to their besieged region, and responded though secession and war.
