free-soilers

Tilting toward conciliation could infuriate his base -- abolitionists and free-soilers.

Harold Holzer: Why was Abraham Lincoln so silent following his election? Harold Holzer 2011

He persuaded many people to become free-soilers with that type of rhetoric and with that moral argument.

Today’s History Lesson: Lincoln’s Disagreement with Obamaism - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

Throughout the history of the United States the contending political forces — Federalists and anti-Federalists, Whigs and Democrats, free-soilers and slaveholders, liberals and conservatives — have agreed on the principle of the sovereignty of the people.

Getting States' Rights Right 2001

Throughout the history of the United States the contending political forces — Federalists and anti-Federalists, Whigs and Democrats, free-soilers and slaveholders, liberals and conservatives — have agreed on the principle of the sovereignty of the people.

Getting States' Rights Right 2001

Would there be a battle between the proslavery men and the free-soilers?

CABIN IN THE SNOW Deborah Hopkinson 2002

The whigs nominated General Taylor for President; the democrats, Lewis Cass; and the free-soilers, who were opposed to the extension of slavery, Martin Van Buren.

A Brief History of the United States

The Fillmore party gave no thanks to the free-soilers for their aid in the presidential election, nor did the latter ask any.

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

Lowrey went West to ` ` Bleeding Kansas '' with the first Governor, Reeder, and both were active participants in the exciting scenes of the ` ` Free State '' war until driven away in 1856, like many other free-soilers, by the acts of the ` ` Border Ruffian '' legislature.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

For several years, the conflict had been in progress between the free-soilers and pro-slavery men in Kansas.

The end of an era, 1899

Even the half-civilized free-soilers of Kansas had denounced

The end of an era, 1899