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- noun Plural form of
Free-Soiler .
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Examples
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For more than half a century after the original populists fell apart around 1900, their name was consigned to the dust bin of history, along with other forgotten third-party movements like the Free-Soilers and the Greenbackers.
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That ` s how he won, because all the branches - including the Free-Soilers, those anti-slavery Democrats - all supported Franklin Pierce in 1852.
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The Free-Soilers wanted Chicago or St. Louis or Minneapolis as the eastern terminus, but no slave-state politician was willing to give it to them.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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The Free-Soilers wanted Chicago or St. Louis or Minneapolis as the eastern terminus, but no slave-state politician was willing to give it to them.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Free-Soilers, and anti-Nebraska Democrats who opposed the extension of slavery.
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He hesitated between Cass and Van Buren until he was nominated for governor by the Free-Soilers.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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In 1850, after seven consecutive terms as Governor, he was defeated by a coalition of Democrats and Free-Soilers.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 Various
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Naturally the remnants of the old party organizations, the Whigs and the Free-Soilers, lent enthusiastic support.
Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd
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I thought we should have no more anti-slavery professions from Whigs and Democrats, no further courting of Free-Soilers, and no more mutual upbraidings of servility to the South; and that thus the way would be smoothed for intelligent and effective anti-slavery work.
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
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As my father was one of the most revolutionary of the Free-Soilers, this may have amused Hawthorne as an instance of the Montagues and Capulets; but I found much sympathy with my political notions in his household.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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