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Word: soiler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1915-1915
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...maintain it at whatever cost, and his clear foresight into the political future. He hated the Abolitionists, who were altogether too unconventional for him, but he made his debut in political life as chairman of the Free Soil Meetings at the Tremont Temple. He declared: 'I am a Free Soiler because I am (who should not say so) of the stock of the old northern gentry, and have a particular dislike to any subserviency, or even appearance of subserviency, on the part of our people to the slave-holding oligarchy.' After the close of the war Mr. Dana resigned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXERCISES IN HONOR OF DANA | 10/21/1915 | See Source »

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