The president believed that Thornberry, a Texan, would mollify skeptical southern senators.

He made a fierce opponent in debate and took special delight in goading southern senators into blurting out statements that would embarrass the Democratic party.

After this defeat, Secretary Davis and southern senators pressed Pierce to add more provisions to the treaty including:

Ms. Cox said she could not even guarantee that the seven southern senators would appear.

In 1861 he was the only southern senator to remain loyal to the Union.

It passed in the U.S. House of Representatives but was prevented from a vote in the Senate by pro slavery southern senators.

Tazewell found little support for it among southern senators.

Yarborough had been the only southern senator to vote for the Civil Rights Act.

He survived two close reelections, and finally reached a point attained by most southern senators where he was simply left alone.

Other southern senators, who had agreed as part of a compromise not to filibuster this bill, were upset with Thurmond.