See quotations.
1836. Those who compose the Jackson party are denounced by the new born Whigs as “collar dogs.” Sir, I am a party man, and one of the true collar dogs, and am proud to wear the collar of such a man as Andrew Jackson, whose collar is a collar of democracy.—Mr. Boon of Indiana, House of Repr., May 9: Cong. Globe, p. 337, App.
1841. These electioneering speeches were of the most insulting character to the majority, whose mildest form of designation was “collar men.”—Mr. Linn of Missouri, U.S. Senate, July 12: id., p. 185.
1842. Doleful ditties about Congressional subserviency, serfs, collar-men, and registers of Executive edicts.—Mr. Sevier of Arkansas in the Senate, April 13: id., p. 329, App.
