antedating "Loco-Foco" 1834

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has 1. 1839 quote for "self-igniting cigar or match" and 2. 1837 quote for
"...'Equal Rights' or Radical section of the Democratic party ..." with a
note that "The name was given in 1835..."

ADS-L archive has 1835 quotes for both senses from Barry Popik and Ben Zimmer.

An inquiry into the accordancy of war with the principles of Christianity :
and an examination of the philosophical reasoning by which it is
defended, with
observations on some of the causes of war and on some of its effects /

Jonathan Dymond;  Philanthropos.
1834 3rd ed., corr. and enl.
English Book Book viii, 191, 38 p. ; 22 cm.
Philadelphia : William Brown, printer.

Page 5
Lobbying?... Loco Focos ? 73 ...

Page 35
We said last fall when Loco Foco Office-holders were spending money in unheard
of profusion at the Polls, that the accounts of Defaulting Collectors! &c. ...

Page 73
A party in New York called Loco Foco had asked Colonel Young to be their
candidate for Governor. H» declined, but reminded their committee, ...
"Tammany Hall," said the loco focos in reply, "has become a nursery of
brokers...

Page 78
AMES WESTERVELT is a Weigher, and has spoken to me about his situation. He is
thoroughly loco-foco ...

Page 80
James Westervelt, the' weigher, was reported to be " thoroughly loco foco" ?
and was retained. I do not know the man, but by reference to Mr. Reyburn, ...

Page 127
... see that power having passed to M. Van Buren, Jesse Hoyt & Co., they had
veered round for the present to the hard-money, anti-monopoly, loco foco side.
...

U. California copy; full view at google.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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