Southern Rights Party

The Southern Rights Party, briefly known as the Resistance Party in the state of Georgia, was a political party in the United States organized in several slave states to oppose the Compromise of 1850, viewing it as inadequate protection for the South, and advocate for secession from the Union, though it later abandoned serious plans for secession. It was one of two major parties in the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi in the early 1850s, alongside the Union Party. The party was made up of mostly Democrats and State Rights Whigs. By 1851, most Southern Rights Democrats had acquiesced to the compromise, believing further opposition to it was hopeless. In the 1851 house elections, Southern Rights Party candidates won three seats.

In 1861, in Kentucky, secessionists called themselves the Southern Rights Party and ran candidates in the 1861 house elections, winning a single seat. That congressman, Henry Cornelius Burnett, was later expelled from congress for supporting the Confederate rebellion.