Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — Sansculottism. [ARTICLE]

Sansculottism.

Sansculottlsm was the name givoaj to the policy of the extreme Republican* In the French Revolution—the riffraff or literally,, the men without breeche*| They rejected breeches as the badge oft the aristocrats, and wore, pantalooMU Carlyle used the word as signifying th«j alms of the needy, hungry, tattered) mob.