[5] In 1832 there were eight emancipation societies in north Alabama: The State Society, Courtland, Lagrange, Tuscumbia, Florence, Madison County, Athens, and Lincoln. Publications, Southern History Association, Vol. II, pp. 92, 93.
[6] See Hodgson, p. 7. In 1842 representation in the legislature was changed from the “federal” basis and based on white population alone. This change was made by the Democrats and was opposed by the Whigs. The latter predominated in the Black Belt.
[7] Hodgson, Ch. 1; Debates of Convention of 1861, passim.
[8] Miller, “Alabama,” p. 123.
[9] Known as the “Alabama Platform” of 1848.
[10] Benjamin Fitzpatrick led the conservative element of the Democratic party and opposed Yancey.
[11] This division in the State Rights ranks existed until secession was actually achieved and even after.
[12] Each extreme southern state—Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina—showed a desire to have some more moderate state act first. Some prominent men in this convention were Yancey, Seibels, Thomas Williams, John A. Elmore, B. F. Saffold, Abram Martin, A. P. Bagley, Adam C. Felder, David Clopton, and George Goldthwaite, nearly all South Carolinians by birth.
[13] A dodging of the question.
[14] For an account of one of these, see the American Historical Review, Oct., 1900.