The Negro Republican Party was one name used, in the period before the end of the civil rights movement, for a branch of the Republican Party in the Southern United States, particularly Kentucky, that was predominantly made up of African Americans. In the Republican Party in the South, during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era as well as decades thereafter, there was a split in the party's constituency and organization. One faction consisted of conservative White moderates, who (either gleefully or with reluctance) accepted limits on African-American civil rights and generally excluded African Americans from party participation, especially in leadership; nationally, this faction was aligned with the contemporary Moderate Republicans, also known as "Half-Breeds" following the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877. The other faction consisted of African Americans and so-called radicals who supported African-American civil rights and party participation; nationally, this faction was aligned with the contemporary Radical Republicans, including the "Stalwart" faction of the party which subsequently materialized upon the Compromise of 1877 and succeeded the Radicals thereafter. One method of Black participation in the Republican Party at the time included involvement in the "Union Leagues," Republican political organizations formed in the South in 1867 during the Reconstruction Era to promote Black political activity and civil rights (named after the organizations of the same name formed in the North during the Civil War to promote activity in favor of the Union). After circa 1890 (when the factional division in the national Republican Party between the Half-Breeds and Stalwarts is generally understood to have ended), the pro-Black, racially inclusive faction of the Republican Party in the South became generally known as the black-and-tan faction, while the racially exclusive, White-centric faction became generally known as the lily-white movement. William F. Butler of Jefferson County, Kentucky spoke at the first convention of the Negro Republican Party held in Lexington, Kentucky in November 1867 and became the president of the party. The religious leader Elisha Green was chosen vice-president of the Kentucky branch at the Lexington convention in 1867. He was a leading Baptist preacher in Maysville and Paris until he died in 1889. Democrats opposed civil rights and voting rights for African Americans who were the majority of eligible voters in some states. In 1866, The Old Guard magazine accused the Democrats of using force and fraud to gain and retain power, and representing "but a despised faction of