doughface 的定义
U.S. History.
- a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the controversies over new territories and slavery before the Civil War.
- a congressman from a northern state not opposed to slavery in the South.
更多doughface例句
- A Doughface press may cry, Compromise; and try to restore the status quo ante bellum, but all in vain.
- The country at large has had to pay dearly for that old doughface love for the South; it is paying every day in lives and money.
- Doughface democracy among us has squalled as if receiving deadly wounds at every proposal to crush or injure the foe.
- While the South is entitled to the palm of victory for shot-gun Democracy, the North is a fair competitor for doughface flunkyism.
- In this sense Lincoln, with his life-long record of opposition to the extension of slavery, was a doughface.