doughface
[ doh-feys ]
/ ˈdoʊˌfeɪs /
noun 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.
Words nearby doughface
dough hook,
doughbelly,
doughboy,
doughboys,
dougherty wagon,
doughface,
doughfoot,
doughnut,
doughnut hole,
dought,
doughty
Example sentences from the Web for doughface
A Doughface press may cry, Compromise; and try to restore the status quo ante bellum, but all in vain.
While the South is entitled to the palm of victory for shot-gun Democracy, the North is a fair competitor for doughface flunkyism.
Emancipation and Emigration |AnonymousDoughface democracy among us has squalled as if receiving deadly wounds at every proposal to crush or injure the foe.
In this sense Lincoln, with his life-long record of opposition to the extension of slavery, was a doughface.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life |Captain A. T. Mahan