ultraism
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Either from education or nature, he seems from the first to have had a repugnance for ultraism, and has therefore never agreed with that class of southern politicians usually termed Fire-eaters.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett
About this time the policy of the radical party in New Hampshire, to which Mr. Hill had always adhered, became tainted with an ultraism, which he could not approve.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
"If Mr. Webster has any charm by the magic influence of which he can control the ultraism, of the North and of the South, he cannot too soon try its effects."
From Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850 by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
We indulge in no ultraism, no sectional strifes, no crusades against the North and the South.
From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner
This revolution was undoubtedly hastened also by the ultraism, on the one part, and the technical inconsistencies on the other, of the Hopkinsian theory.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
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