Sentence:  To what terrible straits the <WSD>Freedomites</WSD>, men who persist in their efforts to exercise the right to pervert Homœopathy into Eclecticism, are driven, becomes apparent by this last public effort of the Editor of a Quarterly Journal (professedly a "Homœopathic" periodical) to make it appear that Hahnemann himself favoured that freedom of medical opinion and action ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  One who advocates for freedom in various contexts.