Free-soilers

Weed belittled it, and the Free-soilers denounced it, but it became the keynote of the campaign, and the Prince, with his rich, brilliant copiousness that was never redundant, became the picturesque and popular speaker of every platform.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

There were three elements that must be united -- the Whigs, the Free-soilers, and the

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

If no longer the great apostle of the Free-soilers he was now the accepted champion of the Democracy.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

The Hunkers elected only six assemblymen; the Free-soilers secured fourteen.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Whigs occupying common ground with Free-soilers who discarded party attachments in behalf of their cherished convictions.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Democrats, Whigs, and Free-soilers met to resist "the iniquity;" and on July 6 the Republican party, under whose banner the great fight was to be finished, found a birthplace at Jackson, Michigan.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Free-soilers, so long as he advocated their principles, he was the most brilliant crusader who sought to stay the aggressiveness of slavery.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

The Republicans, or as they were then called, Free-soilers, attempted to organize the House by recognizing the clerk of the previous House, who was a Free-soiler, it then being the custom to have the clerk call the House to order and preside until a temporary organization was perfected.

Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom

It lacked the spirit of the band of resolute Free-soilers, who met in the same place on the same day and nominated John A. Dix for governor and Seth M. Gates of Wyoming for lieutenant-governor; but it gave no evidence of the despair that had settled upon the convention of the Hunkers in the preceding week.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

Of the thirty-three congressmen, the Democrats elected twenty-one, the Whigs ten, the Free-soilers and

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