Locofocos

It contained a mixture of anti-Tammany Democrats and labor union veterans of the Working Men's Party, the latter of which had existed from 1828 to 1830.

[3] The Locofocos never controlled the party nationally and declined after 1840, when the federal government passed the Independent Treasury Act.

In general, Locofocos supported Andrew Jackson and Van Buren, and were for free trade, greater circulation of specie, legal protections for labor unions and against paper money, financial speculation, and state banks.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said of the Locofocos: "The new race is stiff, heady, and rebellious; they are fanatics in freedom; they hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks, hierarchies, governors, yea, almost all laws.

[7] Locofoco Abram Smith and many others would become active in American Hunter’s Lodges dedicated to ending British rule in Canada.

It appears that Marck's term was quickly genericized to mean any self-igniting match, and it was this usage from which the faction derived its name.