A large portion of the free-soilers desired him that year to be a candidate for Governor, and most of the coalition Democrats likewise desired his nomination.
The early action of the Free Soilers was in fact a practical obstacle in the way.
In 1849 the Whigs and Free Soilers united to support Flavius J.
The Free Soilershad swept the northeastern counties.
In early 1854 the Whigs, Free Soilers and Anti-Slavery Democrats met at Ripon, Wisconsin, and proposed to form a new party, to be called the Republican party.
The Free-soilers did the same thing with the opinion of Justice Curtis.
If a few thousand Free Soilers had fabricated a Constitution in this fashion, prohibiting slavery forever, would the gentlemen from the South have submitted to the outrage?
The Free Soilers held the balance of power, but by a refusal to cooperate with the conservative opponents of slavery extension left the control of the House in the hands of the Democrats.
Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers unite in the expression of approbation and pleasure.
And now began a seven years' struggle between the Free-soilers and the proslavery men for the possession of Kansas.
If the Free-soilers did not get office, they had demonstrated their strength, and exulted in having routed their adversaries.
Many northern Whigs were deeply imbued with anti-slavery sentiments, and the action of the Free-soilers was increasing their sensitiveness.
Clark's majority, slender as it finally appeared by the official count, was due to the Whigs occupying common ground with Free-soilers who discarded party attachments in behalf of their cherished convictions.
If no longer the great apostle of the Free-soilers he was now the accepted champion of the Democracy.
Hence it was that he was avoided by the leaders of the Democratic Party, and hence it was that his special friends and supporters were Abolitionists, Free-soilers and Anti- slavery Democrats.
The resolutions, however, tended to conciliate the anti-slavery element of the State and in many towns and in some of the counties the Democrats and Free-soilers coalesced and elected a formidable minority of the Legislature.
The Free-soilers had joined the Republicans and so disappeared from politics as a party.
The Free-soilers demanded that there should be no more slave states, no more slave territories.
Democratic aid enabled the Free Soilersin 1851 to send Sumner to represent them in the Senate, in company with Hale and Chase.
The House of Representatives could easily have been carried; for the Whigs and Free Soilers constituted a majority, and would have had some help from Northern Democrats.
About half of the Free Soilers deserted what seemed to be a lost cause; but few if any went back to help the Whigs.
The Free Soilers were too sectional; but the Whigs had so much influence at the South that they could have checked the extension of slavery without bloodshed; and this would have ensured the progress of emancipation.
Cass would have been elected if the Free Soilers had supported him in New York.
The Whigs, when they entered upon this proceeding, well knew that the Free Soilers were willing and anxious to vote for Thaddeus Stevens, or any other reliable member of the party.
The sickly air of compromise filled the land, and for a time the deluded masses were made to believe that the Free Soilers had brought the country to the verge of ruin.
Under these various influences the Whigs generally, and a large proportion of the Free Soilers and Democrats, were enlisted in the service of this remarkable movement.
Winthrop, of Massachusetts, to please the Whigs and semi-Free Soilers who affiliated with them, since Giddings, Palfrey and others had demonstrated that he was wholly untrustworthy in facing the ragged issue of slavery.
It was not strange, therefore, that the little band of Free Soilers in this Congress encountered popular obloquy and social outlawry at the Capital.
The most famous of these names were those of Chase and Sumner, both of whom had been sent to the Senate by a coalition of Free-Soilers and Democrats.
Abolitionists, Free Soilers and Whigs fearlessly attacked the laws which kept the Negroes under legal and economic disabilities.
The House was nearly two months organizing, and then the President sent in a message to Congress denouncing the Free-Soilers for resisting the laws.
Walker, a slaveholder, whom Buchanan and Douglas had persuaded to accept the governorship, reported that the Free-Soilers outnumbered their adversaries three to one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soilers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
