单词 | free soil |
释义 | free soiln.adj. U.S. Politics. Now historical. A. n. Territory in which slaveholding is prohibited; an example of this. Chiefly with reference to the views and activities of the Free Soil party (see sense B.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in U.S.A. > where slaveholding was banned free soil1844 1844 Subterranean & Working Man's Advocate 23 Nov. 3/3 Mr. [Thomas] Devyr..dwelt upon the rapid progress which the question of a Free Soil had made within the last twelve months. 1847 P. Goodwin in Harbinger 13 Nov. 12 (headline) Free trade, free soil, free labor, and free speech. 1886 J. A. Logan Great Conspiracy 43 At once commenced that long and terrible struggle between the friends of Free-Soil and the friends of Slavery, for the possession of Kansas. 1903 A. T. Hadley Freedom & Responsibility 20 The republican party from 1856 to 1870 was dominated by men who cared more for free soil and for the Union than they did for their own positions of authority. 1948 Pacific Spectator Spring 151 They had translated their moral repudiation of slavery into the doctrine of ‘free soil’. 1993 R. L. Gale Cultural Encycl. 1850s in Amer. 2 The main planks of their campaign platform were advocacy of free soil and support of free labor in opposition to encroachment by the slave-powered South. B. adj. (attributive). Of or relating to (advocacy of) the prohibition of slavery. Esp. in the name of or with reference to the Free Soil Party (active 1848–54), which campaigned on the platform that slavery should not be permitted in United States territory. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [adjective] > other parties republican1785 federalist1795 republican1800 National Republican1831 Native American1835 free soil1845 know-nothing1853 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > relating to manumission > relating to anti-slavery agitator or group free soil1845 Garrisonian1863 1845 Young Amer. 26 Apr. 2/2 Unless our pious neighbor-in-law can give us evidence of the truth of his assertion, we must inevitably conclude that he has foully libelled the Free Soil Farmers. 1846 Young Amer. 28 Feb. 1/1 Mr. Ryckman has set out on a lecturing tour on the Free Soil Question... We are unitedly for the Free Soil Movement. 1848 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 102 The newly combined Van Buren ‘free soil’ party. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 69 Mr. Clay was speaking of the antislavery agitators and of the Free-soil party. 1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 146 Beverly was..an ardent student of free-soil doctrines. 1934 B. Russell Freedom & Organization 1814–1914 371 In a long letter..he [sc. Carnegie] explains that he is a free-soil Democrat. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Mag.) 12/1 In 1845, John P. Hale bolted the Democratic party to campaign under the Free-Soil banner. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Oct. 48/1 He..had become in time an espouser of the Free Soil doctrine, which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. Derivatives ˌfree-ˈsoiler n. (a) a person who believes in or advocates the prohibition of slavery; †(b) a person who lives on free soil, a free person (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [noun] > freeman or not slave freeeOE freemanOE franklin1377 free-soiler1848 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > other parties > members or adherents of liberty man1705 monocrat1792 federal1796 National Republican1828 rummy1840 Native American1844 free-soiler1848 know-nothing1853 soft1853 tea partier2009 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > abolition of slavery > one who abolitionist1791 saint1830 immediatist1835 free-soiler1848 woolly-head1859 1848 Ohio Repository 11 Oct. In a speech to the Free Soilers, last evening, Mr. Russell,..a leading Whig member of the last legislature, said that [etc.]. 1849 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) II. 162 Palfrey, Adams, Sumner..all and several Free-soilers. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lv. 355 The Abolitionists and Free Soilers..had for some time previously acted as a group by themselves. 1898 N.E.D. at Free soil sb. and a. Free-soiler,..one who lives on free soil, a free man. 1927 S. V. Benét John Brown's Body 116 Pop hadn't wanted to join with the Free-Soilers. 1992 I. Berlin et al. Free at Last 21 Late in 1861, General John W. Phelps, a Vermont free-soiler, took command of Ship Island. ˌfree-ˈsoilism n. (advocacy of) the principles of the Free Soil Party; (sometimes more generally) opposition to slavery. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > other parties > principles or policies of Native Americanism1844 free-soilism1848 know-nothingism1854 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > abolition of slavery > principles of abolitionism1807 immediatism1835 free-soilism1848 man-and-brotherism1865 1848 Ohio Repository 13 Sept. (headline) Free Soil-ism. 1849 Congress. Globe 13 Dec. 24/2 We do not charge him with Abolitionism or Free-Soilism, but with duplicity. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 73 Tainted with Free-soilism or Abolitionism. 1941 ‘H. Buckmaster’ Let my People Go 162 Quincy wrote..that Free Soilism ‘has carried off multitudes of our abolitionists’. 2000 Church Hist. 69 591 Some Whig Methodists in the South turned to the Democrats as the best sectional defence against free-soilism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1844 |
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