Free-Soiler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Free-Soiler
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50; Free Soil (party) ( def. ) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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In its ranks were all shades of anti-slavery opinion,—the patient Abolitionist, the Free-Soiler of the Buffalo platform, the Democrats who had supported the Wilmot Proviso, the Whigs who had followed Seward.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
I was an ardent Free-Soiler in days when to be an abolitionist was somewhat akin to being a republican in Britain.
From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke
I stand here in the midst of the assembled Legislature of Missouri to avow myself a Free-Soiler.
From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper
Twelve years before, as a radical Democrat and Free-Soiler, he had been chosen governor of his State.
From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
In 1852 he was elected as a Free-Soiler to the 543 Massachusetts House of Representatives, and during his single term of service became the leader of his party in that body.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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