Breckinridge, Magoffin, and Richard Hawes were the states' rights delegates to the conference, while Crittenden, Archibald Dixon, and Samuel S. Nicholas represented the Unionist position.

I remember well Mr. Galvin's flying visits to Northern Ireland in the 1980's, how he sought only to reinforce his own Republican perspectives and not at all to gain insight into the Unionist position.

The state elections of 1851 reflected the popularity of the Unionist position.

He was described as an "opportunist" by his opponents for his unwavering Unionist position.

The net effect of the Acts of 1918 and 1921 was thus to improve the Unionist position by a hundred seats, not just in that parliament but in every succeeding one too.

But Asquith's refusal greatly strengthened the Unionist position.

The Unionist position carried the convention by an 80,000-vote majority.

The majority coalition of Bell and Douglas supporters was seen as a solid moderate Unionist position that opposed precipitate action by extremists on either side.

The Unionist position carried after many of the states rights' legislators, opposing the idea of immediate secession, voted against the convention.

In 1862, he was jailed without trial for his Unionist positions by the Confederate provost marshal John H. Winder.