dough-faces

In the North and East, swarms of dough-faces, office-vermin, kept-editors, clerks, attaches of the ten thousand officers and their parties, aware of nothing further than the drip and spoil of politics -- ignorant of principles, the true glory of a man.

John Seery: Walt Whitman on the Blagojevich Scandal (and Maybe Also the Auto Bailout Mess) 2009

Dogs, and then we used to call them dough-faces; they wouldn't have them only Christmastime, Santa

Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0085-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

They called them dough-faces, but you put it over your face, you know.

Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0085-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

The leading minds of the South, shrewder than our Northern anti-emancipation half traitors and whole dough-faces, foreseeing the inevitable success of ultimate emancipation, have given many signs of willingness to employ even it, if needs must be, as a means of effectually achieving their 'independence.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

Who has forgotten the late doleful convictions of the dough-faces that the South would hold together to the last in spite of wind or weather, concluding invariably with the old refrain, -- 'Suppose we conquer them -- what then?'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The Northern leaders of both of the old political parties -- Whig and Democratic -- were what the Abolitionists called "dough-faces," being Northern men with Southern principles.

The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights

_Dickinson dough-faces were to be bought_, and _Cochrane cowards to be frightened_, so long was the Union tolerable to Southern men; but when, owing to divisions in our ranks, the Yankee hirelings placed one of their own spawn over us, political connection became unendurable, and separation necessary to preserve our

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

It is grimly amusing to think of the aid which the South counted on receiving from these Northern dough-faces, -- little thinking that within itself it contained a counter-revolutionary party, far more dangerous than the Northern friends were helpful.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Northern politicians with Southern principles as "dough-faces."

The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights

I am aware that they were abused and denounced as we are now -- that they were branded as dough-faces -- traitors to freedom, and to the section of country whence they came.

American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1899