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Doughfaces.

During the great debate on the slavery question in 1820, elicited by proceedings in relation to the admission of Missouri as a free-labor or slavelabor State, eighteen Northern men were induced to vote for a sort of compromise, by which the striking out the prohibition of slavery from the Missouri bill was carried by 90 to 87. John Randolph, who denounced the compromise as a “dirty bargain,” also denounced these eighteen Northern representatives as “doughfaces” —plastic in the hands of expert demagogues. The epithet was at once adopted into the political vocabulary of the republic, wherein it remains.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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