See quotation, 1814.
1814. During [this] year,… a writer of considerable talents had appeared in a New-York paper, assuming the name of Abimaleck Coody, a mechanic of that place…. It was soon ascertained this writer was Mr. Gulian C. Verplanck…. [An opponent, said to be Mr. Clinton, charged him with becoming] the head of a political sect called the Coodies, of hybrid nature, composed of the combined spawn of federalism and Jacobinism, and generated in the venomous passions of disappointment and revenge, without any definite character.—J. D. Hammond, ‘History of Political Parties,’ i. 397–8 (1842).
1829. Duer, who is attached to young Hoffman, with all the coodies, high minded, and Clintonians…. Lorenzo tells me I had better abandon all ideas of political preferment till the coodies and high minded have become exterminated.—Jesse Hoyt to Secretary Van Buren, April 24: W. L. Mackenzie, ‘Lives of Butler and Hoyt,’ pp. 55, 56 (Boston, 1845).
