Union Party (United States, 1850)

The Union Party was a political party organized in several slave states to support the Compromise of 1850. It was one of two major parties in the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi in the early 1850s, alongside the Southern Rights Party. While some figures, including notably Daniel Webster, predicted a sweeping political realignment in which the Union Party would unite all those in favor of the Compromise measures, no national organization ever emerged.^[2] The party bore no relation to the later Constitutional Union Party that supported John Bell in the 1860 United States presidential election, nor to unionist parties active in the loyal states during the American Civil War.