Sort, kind, type.
1853. [He] is not at home in his present position; he has not been long in his present “stripe” of politics.—Mr. Stanly of North Carolina, House of Repr., Feb. 11: Cong. Globe, p. 576.
1854. That every member of the Democratic party of whatever shade or stripe, is perfectly honest in all his purposes and motives.—Mr. Badger of North Carolina, U.S. Senate, May 17: id., p. 1206.
1854. It is necessary to raise up a certain stripe in the Valley, of the real “Mormon” grit.—J. M. Grant at the Tabernacle, Oct. 7: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 72.
1854. In the midst of this people you will find various stripes of character.—The same, Sept. 24: id., iii. 67.
1855. If they want women to go to California with them, we will send a company of the same stripe, if they can be found, and then both parties will be suited to and for each other.—Brigham Young, June 17: id., ii. 322.
1856. [They] re-elected Banks and others of the same stripe, all wily Abolitionists.—Mr. Burnett of Kentucky, House of Repr., July 28: Cong. Globe, p. 974, App.
1859. In this way the Bishop may perpetuate his own stripe until the end of time.—Rev. Dr. Adams of Wis., in the Gen. Convention: Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 11, p. 4/2.
1859. The gentlemen in the North, of the Fifth Avenue Hotel stripe, who have long purses.—Mr. Wilson of Mass., the same, Dec. 8: id., p. 63.
1860. The negroes of the city of Philadelphia … handed over some $15,000 to their white brethren of the Republican stripe.—Richmond Enquirer, Nov. 6, p. 4/5.
1862. Ther’s Gerrit Smith an his stripe, a kind of maroon-colored, mongrel breed of politicians, sumthin like a cross between a Jamacy nigger an an Esquimaw.—Seba Smith, ‘Letters of Major Jack Downing,’ Nov. 10.
