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abolitionists

n. (plural of abolitionist English)

Usage examples of "abolitionists".

On both sides the cause was broader and deeper than negro slavery, and neither the proslavery men nor the abolitionists have won.

If Wade, Chandler, and the rest of the abolitionists turn on him, especially after their darling Fremont was slapped down, much heat will be applied to the President by Jacobins who want to grab the reins.

Greeley and the other abolitionists will know that your heart was in the right place.

Gleefully, merrily, they all called one another abolitionists, not mere emancipationists or Free-Soilers, and it seemed to Hay that they enjoyed the novel sensation of appropriating that hitherto dreaded label.

And the Abolitionists in the North, as a set-off against this detested legislation, gave themselves with much zest to aid the runaway slave.

We are recalcitrant southerners, I have never heard of Quakers seeking revenge, but everyone knows the Abolitionists are crazy and they are liable to do anything.

Some abolitionists took me away from her to bring me before the chief justice.

The abolitionists, in supporting themselves on humanity in its generality, regardless of individual and territorial rights, can recognize no state, no civil authority, and therefore are as much out of the order of civilization, and as much in that of barbarism, as is the slaveholder himself.

Hence the great body of the people in the non-slaveholding States, wedded to American democracy as they were and are could never, as much as they detested slavery, be induced to make common cause with the abolitionists, and their apparent union in the late civil war was accidental, simply owing to the fact that for the time the social democracy and the territorial coincides or had the same enemy.

The abolitionists were right in opposing slavery, but not in demanding its abolition on humanitarian or socialistic grounds.

Your leading abolitionists are as much affected by satanophany as your leading confederates, nor are they one whit more philosophical or less sophistical.

Northern abolitionists as hostile alike to the Church and to civilization.