An epithet applied to the Clinton party, in derision: Mr. Charles L. Norton, Mag. Am. Hist., xiii. 201 (1885).
1824. It is not very serviceable to talk much of Burrites, Lewisites, or the High minded.—B. F. Butler to Jesse Hoyt. Wm. L. Mackenzie’s ‘Life of Martin Van Buren,’ p. 169 (Boston).
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).
