Stephens fought the secession of Georgia.
I was always more of a Robert Toombs supporter. Then there were the Cobb brothers - Howell and T.R.R. Of course, one of Howell’s best known quotes was “ Use all the negroes you can get, for all the purposes for which you need them, but don’t arm them. The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong ....”