What is "soiler"

Usage examples of "soiler".

He was a Free Soiler and an Abolitionist, liberally contributing to the Sanitary Commission, and to all agencies for the benefit of the soldiers and the successful prosecution of the war.

It was a pretty good education, better than that of any university, to be a young Free Soiler in Massachusetts.

It was said that a man known to be a Democrat, or a Free Soiler, was pretty likely to get his discharge from the employ of any great manufacturing corporation that had occasion to reduce its force, and that he would have no chance to get an increase of wages.

I was myself, at this time, an enthusiastic Free Soiler, and was, as I have said, Chairman of the Republican County Committee, but I joined the rebels against the dominant feeling of my party.

I was pretty well known through the city as an earnest Free Soiler, and as sharing the public feeling of indignation against the delivering up of fugitives.

Frank was a cosmic thug, evil, foul, an asshole, a prick, a jerk, a soiler of lives, a stealer of souls, one-hundred-fifty-proof evil.

After the Free Soil convention I was a Free Soiler, and such I continued, casting my first vote for John C.

The Free Soilers carried all but six, I think, of the fifty-two towns in that county.

The coalition between the Free Soilers and Democrats carried the State of Massachusetts that year and elected Sumner Senator and Boutwell Governor.

Several of the Free Soilers, among which I was included, were unwilling to have the matter tried again without a distinct assurance that there should be no meddling with the judiciary.

The Whig leaders, who seemed to have had all their wisdom and energy taken out of them when the Free Soilers left them, were much alarmed by the strength of the discontent with the existing order of things manifested by the coalition victory in the election of the Constitutional Convention.

At this defection of so many Free Soilers the Whig leaders took heart and made a vigorous and successful resistance.

Several of the most eminent leaders of the Free Soilers and Democrats separated themselves from their party and joined the Whigs in defeating it.

Which he would have done, if the damned FreeSoilers among the Know-Nothings had not bolted to the Republican candidate, Fremont, thereby electing Buck and Breck.

Any dog dreadful enough to have outdone his fellow couch destroyers, ankle nippers, rug soilers, lawn excavators, garbage stealers, and leash lungers to the extent of requiring three local consultations and the Monks of New Skete?