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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles of the Locofoco party.
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Examples
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E---- passed from the matters of birth, pedigree, and ancestral pride to give vent to the most arrant democracy and locofocoism that I ever happened to hear, saying that nobody ought to possess wealth longer than his own life, and that then it should return to the people, &c.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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A man made a remark relative to Mr. Birney's locofocoism.
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E---- passed from the matters of birth, pedigree, and ancestral pride to give vent to the most arrant democracy and locofocoism that I ever happened to hear, saying that nobody ought to possess wealth longer than his own life, and that then it should return to the people, etc.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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The slave-holding cavaliers of the South have little in common with the mercantile North; the cultivators and hewers of the western forests are wholly dissimilar from the enterprising traders of the eastern coast; republicanism is not always democracy, and democracy is not always locofocoism; a gentleman is not always a loafer, although certainly a loafer is never a gentleman.
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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