disunion

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Here is the quintessential Westerner about to transform himself from Honest Abe the rail-splitter into Father Abraham, the avuncular statesman capable of handling the looming crisis over disunion and slavery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“To choose love over hate, unity over disunion, progress over retreat.”

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2023

Over the next three years, the country descended into disunion, followed by civil war.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022

With the founding of the Republican Party in 1854, antislavery politicians created the organization that elected President Abraham Lincoln in 1860, directly leading to disunion and the Civil War.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

It is an army of remarkable unity, fighting for disunion.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara