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... strong apprehensions that they will not be half so comprehensive as the exigencies and wishes of the nation demand, for the Whigs were always good at promising, but very indifferent at executing any reform. ...
... strong apprehensions that they will not be half so comprehensive as the exigencies and wishes of the nation demand, for the Whigs were always good at promising, but very indifferent at executing any reform. ...
... Reform carried, and a Reform Ministry in power—when political Toryism is virtually dead and entirely harmless. It is easy to Whig in the matter of hundred years ago. It very easy to be a Reform depute-advocate. But if we had never had Reformers of manlier ...
... our p ovious letters to that the accounts now received billotincrs had been held; thirty-two had been taken, Messrs Winthrop (Whig), and Cobb (Democrat), beiur the leading candidates. Subsequently, the favour of the latter candidate diminished, and Mr Pidter ...
... socially comfortable, and politically free, does not enter into his notions of statesmanship. And, indeed, no Government, whether Whig or Tory, has been a machine earnestly working for the highest seeul tr good of the community. The times demand a thorough change ...
... if ever a literary man deserved a pension from his country, it is De Quincey. It is a burnir.g disgrace to Prime Ministers —Whig and Tory alike— that his pre-eminent services and unrivalled claims have been overlooked, whilst men and women, the inferiority ...
... canvassed for the future decision of the Legislature. THE MESSAGE THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT. ( From the Examiner.) The message of a Whig President of the United States to a Congress, in which a democratic majority has shown itself in the House of Representatives ...
... ult. the sixty-fourth ballot for Speaker in the House of Representatives gave—for Cobb (Demo, crat), 102 votes; for Winthrop (Whig), 100 votes, and scattering votes. One of the tellers thereupon declared that the Hon. Cobb, of Georgia, was elected Speaker ...
... Protectionists are making desperate efforts, and sustaining repeated defeats. They, along with several of the hirelings of the Whig Ministers who look upon Cobden with envy for the past, and with fear for the future, are seeking to connect the disgraceful ...
... coast of America.—Times. Government Measure of Parliamentary Tie form —The Daily Ne>cs tells us, that tbj measure which the Whigs announce for the extension of the suffrage to scot and lot voting in towns, .£lO freeholds in the counties. believe it wonld ...
... efforts. They know that their time short, and they wish to kick up a row before they become extinct. They have hope that the Whig Government will agree to re; store Protection, and they cannot believe that her Majesty will dissolve Parliament. If they could ...
... report upon the present distressed state agriculture, [t. is in 110 respect political; and, indeed, refers just as little to Whigs and Tories as if it had been drawn up in that age when Adam delved and Eve span. It advocates neither the principles of ...
... admiration of the people—as early and ardent, pure and unchangeable friend— one who was a Whig days of rampant Toryism, and one who was something more and better than Whig when Whiggism had degenerated. The serj vices of the Edinburgh Review in the cause of ...