Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), a South Carolinian statesmen who was elected to the US House and Senate and eventually the Confederate House, was dubbed the ‘Father of Secession’ and called the ‘Lone Star of Disunion’ by his enemies in the Whig Party. He was one of the Fire Eaters who advocated Southern independence and promoted Southern unity in the 1830s,...
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