“Actually, I’m referring to the thousands of slave owners in the south at the time of the outbreak of the civil war. .”
All the ones that I listed were prominent Southern Senators and Presidents who were Whigs.
I’m curious to know how you justify the American Revolution considering that Britain issued two emancipation declarations as the colonists fought to secede from their mother government. Do Washington, Henry, Mason et al get a pass somehow?
Okay, not really, but he was basically an ideological Democrat who ran as a Whig because of quarrels within the Democrat Party.
Tyler opposed Andrew Jackson because Jackson wasn't "state's rights" enough.
Many slaveowners were Whigs, but the most ferocious secessionist fire eaters were usually Democrats.