Crossword-Solution: DOUGHFACES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Northerners who once sympathized with the South | 1 answer |
| Pro-slavery Northerners, before the Civil War | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
IONMETO
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with DOUGHFACES (5)
Randolph applied to them the term "doughfaces."] from the northern cause were influenced by the knowledge that the admission of Maine would fail without this concession; others, by the constitutional argument; others, by the fear of disunion; and still others, by the apprehension that the unity of the Democratic party was menaced by the new sectional alignment, which included among its leaders men who had been prominent in the councils of the Federalists.
The Northern Doughfaces tell us over and over again, that if we will 'only leave the slave question untouched,' all will yet be right.
But to effect this, it should be planned and executed as a great, harmonious, and centrally powerful scheme, not be tinkered over and frittered away by all the petty doughfaces in every village.
While the base counterfeit that has so often been thrust upon us by Southern braggadocios, and indorsed by Northern sneaks and doughfaces, has been detected, and, thank God! is being thrown out as fast as shot and shell can knock it out, there never was a greater abundance of the genuine metal than there is now and here in this land of ours.
Those who had jeered at the Southern threats of disunion as empty bluster, and at the Northern conservatives as cowardly doughfaces, became zealous Union men, although it must be confessed that very few of them took their lives in their hands and actually went to the front.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2007).