Hunkers

The state’s Democratic Party was hopelessly split between Van Buren’s Barnburners and an opposition group known as the Hunkers.

A Country of Vast Designs

The state’s Democratic Party was hopelessly split between Van Buren’s Barnburners and an opposition group known as the Hunkers.

A Country of Vast Designs

Cincinnati, between whom and the daughters of the rich "Hunkers" of the town marriages were frequent, and the families thus created were, from

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867

A very few of the old Whigs and Democrats, who were called "Hunkers" or "Copperheads," sympathized with the Rebellion, or if they did not, were so possessed with hatred for the men who were putting it down that they could find nothing to approve, but only cause for complaint and faultfinding.

Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

New York Democrats brought to the convention their lingering strife between the Hunkers and Barnburners, the two warring factions of New York Democratic politics.

A Country of Vast Designs

New York Democrats brought to the convention their lingering strife between the Hunkers and Barnburners, the two warring factions of New York Democratic politics.

A Country of Vast Designs

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They were given that derisive nickname by the Hunkers so called because they “hunkered” or “hankered” after national office, who favored the annexation of Texas, which extended slavery westward.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

They were given that derisive nickname by the Hunkers so called because they “hunkered” or “hankered” after national office, who favored the annexation of Texas, which extended slavery westward.

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

New York Democrats had split into a regular wing, the Hunkers, and a minority wing, the Barnburners, with which Van Buren was allied.

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