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  • noun Plural form of soiler.

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Examples

  • 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

  • So lay it out for me — who are the primary soilers of threads around here?

    Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’ 2010

  • I went to the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, walked in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Cottonwood Falls, and went to see some of the important sites during the clashes between “free soilers” and “border ruffians.”

    PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010

  • I went to the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, walked in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Cottonwood Falls, and went to see some of the important sites during the clashes between “free soilers” and “border ruffians.”

    PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010

  • I went to the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka, walked in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Cottonwood Falls, and went to see some of the important sites during the clashes between “free soilers” and “border ruffians.”

    PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010

  • 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

  • Less than ten days later, on June 2, at Black Jack, Brown and free soilers captured a band of Missouri state militiamen led by Captain Henry Clay Pate.20

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • Less than ten days later, on June 2, at Black Jack, Brown and free soilers captured a band of Missouri state militiamen led by Captain Henry Clay Pate.20

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • The year was 1854 when a group of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and free soilers, gathered together in opposition to the expansion of slavery.

    1854 2006

  • The year was 1854 when a group of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and free soilers, gathered together in opposition to the expansion of slavery.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

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