locofoco

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There must have been some Locofoco boys, of course, for my boy and his friends used to advance, on their side, the position that "Democrats Eat dead rats!"

From A Boy's Town by Howells, William Dean

Dat he sprinciple; he kyarn vote for Locofoco, I don' keer ef he is Miss Charlotte pa, much less her step-pa.

From Unc' Edinburg A Plantation Echo by Page, Thomas Nelson

The driver was a stubborn Locofoco, and Benson did not disdain to enter into an elaborate argument with him.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various

A Locofoco is the only intelligible term: a fellow that would set any place on fire to roast his own eggs.

From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love

But the Senators belonging to the Locofoco or Democratic party voted against it.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel