Political faction of the New York Democratic Party about 1844. They were so called because of their enthusiastic support of radical reforms, which was likened to the thoroughness of a Dutchman who...
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The Barnburners were a mid-19th century faction of the American Democratic Party in New York State, so called from an alleged eagerness for radical measures, in allusion to the story of the Dutchman who burned down his barn in order to clear it of rats. The election of Polk in 1844 resulted in a split of the Democratic party in New York into two fa...
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