BARNBURNERS

radical element of the Democratic party in New York state from 1842 to 1848, opposed to the conservative Hunkers. The name derives from the fabled Dutchman who burned his barn to rid it of rats; by implication, the Barnburners would destroy corporations and public works to do away with the abuses they foster. Among their leaders were C. C. Cambreleng, Silas Wright, Azariah C. Flagg, and Samuel J. Tilden. Opposed to the extension of slavery, the Barnburners seceded from the Democratic state organization when the Hunkers captured the state convention at Syracuse in 1847. Refused recognition at the Democratic national convention of 1848, they nominated Martin Van Buren for President and endorsed the Free-Soil party candidate, Charles Francis Adams (1807–86), for Vice President. Largely because of this Democratic split, the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor, defeated the regular Democrat, Lewis Cass. After 1848 some Barnburners joined the Free-Soilers, who merged with the new Republican party; others returned to the Democratic party.

See H. D. A. Donovan, The Barnburners (1925).

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Love of Order: South Carolina's First Secession Crisis
Book by John Barnwell; University of North Carolina Press, 1982
Subjects: Secession--South Carolina, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1865
...slaverys expansion. The Barnburners stand attracted the close...restricting slavery but lacking the Barnburners electoral power: "conscience...abolitionist principles. 73 Barnburners, antislavery Whigs, and...ticket that offered arch-Barnburner Martin Van Buren for president...
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The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
Book by Michael F. Holt; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Whig Party (U.S.)--History
...to the Hunkers for aid. Barnburners wanted to insert into the...the canal system than the Barnburners. Before the convention met...allow the Whigs to win. With Barnburners out of power and stripped...prospect of running against Barnburner Silas Wrights record as governor...
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John L. O'Sullivan and His Times
Book by Robert D. Sampson; Kent State University Press, 2003
Subjects: Journalists--United States--Biography, O'sullivan, John L--(John Louis)--1813-1895
...party. 4 When the Barnburner and Hunker factions...Democratic convention, the Barnburners walked out. Further...August 1848, when the Barnburners convened in Buffalo...OSullivans support of the Barnburner Free Soil effort comes...politics and the path the Barnburners were pursuing, Polk...
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The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois
Book by Gerald Leonard; University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Subjects: Illinois--Politics And Government--19th Century, Political Parties--Illinois--History--19th Century
...the sectional question. Van Buren's Barnburners traced their roots to the hard-money...within the New York Democracy. To the Barnburners, the southern-rights minority of...national convention. In 1848, the Barnburners sent a delegation to the national convention...
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Morality & Utility in American Antislavery Reform
Book by Louis S. Gerteis; University of North Carolina Press, 1987
Subjects: Abolitionists--United States, Antislavery Movements--United States
...by their devotion to freedom." The Barnburners remained in Pierces camp, but Chases...City considered Chases letter and the Barnburners response "one of the best things of...were sound, practical resons for the Barnburners to maintain party unity, it seemed...
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Party over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848
Journal article by R. Scott Burnet; The Historian, Vol. 73, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...component of the new party was New Yorks Barnburner faction, long estranged from the more...delegation at the Democratic convention. The Barnburners contributed their leader, former President...such as the troubled efforts of the Barnburners to reenter New York Democracy. Silbey...
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A Coffin for the Union
Journal article by Robert J; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 23, 1999
Subjects: Albany, NY, Coffin, Edwin S., Congress, Fillmore, Millard, Government, New York, NY, Otsego, NY, Politics, Seward, William H., Slavery, Taylor, Zachary, Weed, Thurlow
...an abolitionist party. By 1851, the New York State Assembly, however, was composed of a mixture of Whigs; Hunkers, Barnburners and Liberty Party members who made up the Free Soil Party; Native Americans; and Antirent members. The Whigs were composed...
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Napoleon V. Lemmon: Antebellum Black New Yorkers, Antislavery, and Law
Journal article by Thomas J. Davis; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 33, 2009
Subjects: Habeas corpus, Law, New York
...political action anti-slavers. It had its William Lloyd Garrison followers. It had its Liberty party people. It had its Barnburners and Free Soilers.6 It also had some of the nations foremost black abolitionists, and in New York City it had one of the...
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Whitman and Eisenstein
Journal article by Barry K. Grant; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 4, 1976
Subjects: Eisenstein, Sergei, Essays, Poetry, Poets, Politics, Principles, Whitman, Walt (1819-92)
...politics of both championed the people: Whitman counted himself among the radical faction of the Democratic Party, the Barnburners, before the War, and Eisensteins approval of the Revolution influenced the development of his aesthetic notions.4 In...
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Theory's Failure: Malthusian Population Theory and the Projected Demise of Slavery
Journal article by James L. Huston; Civil War History, Vol. 55, 2009
Subjects: Abolition of slavery--Economic aspects, Abolition of slavery--History, Abolition of slavery--Political aspects, Economic conditions--Demographic aspects, Economic conditions--Forecasts and trends, Food supply--Forecasts and trends, Food supply--Social aspects, Malthusianism--Analysis, Popular sovereignty--Analysis, Popular sovereignty--History, Population growth--Economic aspects, Population growth--Political aspects, Population--Economic aspects, Population--Growth, Population--Political aspects, Race relations--Economic aspects, Race relations--Political aspects, Slavery--Economic aspects, Slavery--Emancipation, Slavery--History, Slavery--Political aspects
...side or the others control of federal policy. Those opposed to slaverys movement into the territories--lumping together Barnburners, Free Soilers, Liberty Party people, and Republicans--often did not drag emancipation into their advocacy. The common...
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The First Contract with America
Magazine article by James A. Henretta; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 20, Winter 1996
Subjects: Constitutions, State--History, Hoffman, Michael--Political activity, New York--History, State government--Laws, regulations, etc., Tax and expenditure limitations--History
...November 1846. The Barnburners revolution was complete...Churchill Chamberling, a Barnburner and former U.S. congressman...vision of Hoffman and the Barnburners assumed a world dominated...president and a prominent Barnburner, denounced Woods statement...
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House on Fire: What the Success of the Tea Party Portends
Magazine article by Joseph D. Becker; Commonweal, Vol. 137, December 3, 2010
Subjects: Egotism--Influence, Egotism--Political aspects, Egotism--Social aspects, Golden rule--Ethical aspects, Golden rule--Social aspects, Tea Party movement--Political aspects, Tea Party movement--Social aspects
...states will add to their misfortune. In historical perceptive, the Tea Party, like nineteenth-century Know-Nothings, Barnburners, Free Soilers, Anti-Masons, and Hunkers, may merely be a short-lived faction too myopic to see larger American prospects...
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Friends and Mentors
Magazine article by Herb Young; IAJRC Journal, Vol. 41, February 2008
...Armstrong and my favorite "For Duke and Mingus". Others are not so obvious, "Song For M" is for McCoy Tyner and the two barnburners on this CD, "Whizbang" and "Longhorn" are both to Art Blakey and the former also to Horace Silver. Oh yeah, "Riding...
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Fake Left, Swing Right
Magazine article by Marc Cooper; The Nation, Vol. 270, February 7, 2000
Subjects: Bradley, Bill--Evaluation, Gore, Albert, Jr.--Ethical aspects, Iowa--Political aspects, Presidential candidates--Evaluation, Wellstone, Paul--Endorsements
...that here in Dubuque." Kennedy delights the crowd, stripping down to his shirt sleeves and unreeling one of his trademark barnburners. Adding up his own and his brothers and his nephews time served in Congress, he declares, "Thats seventy-seven years...
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Editor's Pick
Magazine article by Greg Cahill; Strings, Vol. 24, August 2009
...never looks back on this collection of five- alarm Cajun fiddle tunes and dizzying waltzes. There are driving blues-based barnburners, red-hot second-line rhythms, an alt- country drinking song, and a cover of a J.J. Cale song. In the 70s, Doucet...
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Another Barnburner East Aurora Hands West Its 1st Loss in Thrilling Fashion
Newspaper article by Kevin Mcgavin; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 19, 2004
Another Barnburner East Aurora Hands West Its 1st Loss in Thrilling Fashion. by Kevin McGavin Byline: Kevin McGavin Daily Herald Correspondent The...
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A Real Barnburner Converted Long Grove Dairy Barn Milks Space for All It's Worth
Newspaper article by Deborah Donovan; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 25, 2007
A Real Barnburner Converted Long Grove Dairy Barn Milks Space for All Its Worth. by Deborah Donovan Byline: Deborah Donovan Daily Herald Homes...
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Neuqua Valley Wins Barnburner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 8, 2010
Neuqua Valley Wins Barnburner. Byline: Joshua Welge jwelge@dailyherald.com Neuqua Valley...points in the second game to outlast Bartlett in a 31-29, 31-29 barnburner in Naperville. The Wildcats (5-0, 1-0 Upstate Eight Conference...
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Florida-Illini Shaping Up as Barnburner Both Teams Share Many Similarities
Newspaper article by Lindsey Willhite; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 19, 2000
Florida-Illini Shaping Up as Barnburner Both Teams Share Many Similarities. by Lindsey Willhite WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - When Florida coach Billy Donovan looks at...
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Bazarnik, Bogatov Stage a Barnburner Warren's Super Soph Edges Stevenson's Fab Freshman
Newspaper article by Mike Garofola; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 6, 2007
Bazarnik, Bogatov Stage a Barnburner Warrens Super Soph Edges Stevensons Fab Freshman. by Mike Garofola Byline: Mike Garofola Daily Herald Correspondent Count Denis...
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Barnburners
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BARNBURNERS radical element of the Democratic party...rid it of rats; by implication, the Barnburners would destroy corporations and public...Opposed to the extension of slavery, the Barnburners seceded from the Democratic state organization...
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Hunkers
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the radical Democrats, or Barnburners . The Hunkers favored internal...candidate, Gov. Silas Wright, a Barnburner. The Barnburners retorted in kind by voting...candidate, Zachary Taylor. Those Barnburners who did not persist in their...
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Flagg, Azariah Cutting
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...opposed any form of federal banks and advocated reform of the New York state banking system. After 1846 he helped organize the Barnburners and was (1852 59) comptroller of New York City. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Albany Regency
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...William L. Marcy , Silas Wright , Azariah C. Flagg , and the elder Benjamin F. Butler . After 1842 it split into factions ( Barnburners and Hunkers ) over issues of internal improvements and slavery, thereby losing its power. See J. D. Hammond, The History...
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New York , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...States; the first was Martin Van Buren (1837 41). The split of the Democrats over the slavery issue into antislavery Barnburners and the Hunkers , who were not opposed to the extension of slavery, helped pave the way for New Yorks swing to the Republicans...
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