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  • _New-England Yankees_ even, to kneel before the slaveocrats still, after the load of scorn and contumely already heaped upon them, and humbly cry, 'More -- give us more contempt -- our backs are made to bear the burden!'

    Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • This remedy that law gives as follows: That the people must defend their liberties and "the rise of the individual," against this industrial despotism of money kings, railroad barons, political bosses, etc., better than they defended themselves against the foreign tyrants in 1775, or the slaveocrats of 1861, -- to-wit, by organizing an army for their _peaceful_ protection and safety -- _A free Army of

    The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 Various 1888

  • Both slaveocrats and abolitionists made plain their scorn for one or the other of the nation's founding charters.

    Claremont.org 2009

  • Whereas the assault on constitutionalism was readily apparent in the pronouncements of both slaveocrats and abolitionists, it was harder to discern in Stephen Douglas, and therefore more dangerous.

    Claremont.org 2009

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