The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society.
Tory - a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs. Englishman - a man who is a native or inhabitant of England.
Redeemers were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the conservative, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party, who pursued a policy of Redemption, seeking to oust the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, carpetbaggers, and scalawags (poorer non-slaveholding whites).