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FIRE-EATERS

\fˈa͡ɪ͡əɹˈiːtəz], \fˈa‍ɪ‍əɹˈiːtəz], \f_ˈaɪə_ɹ_ˈiː_t_ə_z]\

Definitions of FIRE-EATERS

1894 - Dictionary of United States history

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a name given, especially in the fifties, to those Southern politicians who were most extreme in their advocacy of Southern claims and in their hostility to the North and to anti-slavery agitation.

1894 - Dictionary of United States history
By John Franklin Jameson

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