1841, [Frederick Jackson], A Week in Wall Street, pages 90–1:
“[…]But I’ve got time—I’ll turn the scale, I’ll help the bulls, operate for a rise, and draw in the flunkies.” ¶ These men, I should have said before, have no other rule of judgment for their operations than to follow in the wake of some great and successful speculator.
1857 November 9, The Cleveland Leader; republished as Virginia Massey, editor, Annals of Cleveland - 1818 - 1935: 1857, volume 40, part 1, a.1937, page 7:
The Massachusetts people endorsed their banks by an overwhelming vote and declared their confidence is unbounded. A few flunkies and rum-suckers were found trying to create a panic, but they are there as here to be numbered among the hypocrites and unbelievers.
