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THE DUKE OF ARGYLL AND THE WHIGS OF 1800

... Gladstone's late appeal to us to reason in the spirit of the Whig party was an exhortation founded on an argument put forward by Lord Edmond Fitamsaurice. This was a most fair argument, and Whig only in the sense that it was reasonable and moderate. But ...

Published: Tuesday 27 December 1887
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 729 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WHIG PRINCIPLES AND LIBERAL POLICY

... Edinburgh and Mid-Lothian under the auspices of Mr Adamn, himself a Whig of the Whigs, and the acting executor of the policy of Lord Hfartington and his friends?1 But we feel that the Whigs are laying themselves open to something like a charge of ingratitude ...

Published: Monday 26 January 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 10711 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WHIG PATRONAGE-AND EDINBURGH POLITICS

... WHIG PATRONAGE4NDEDINBURGA PomtT v `a. I A~b orgn = t of theN ing - Itis gl~l hig!ObS rare e e l, L n alon his>~ e~ of the Tories and Churchmen. But a change has already come over this dream. The z~oEriJ1 C§p . rchmer;.ax-ng, . .ine. state. ,of t r elin ...

Published: Friday 28 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY

... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WHIG PARTY. The Manchester Examiner, in an article on the Liberation Society's Conference at Manchester, writes thus of Mr Miall's speech and of the Whig party:- In the paper read by Mr Miall before the Liberation Society's ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1863
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1144 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A NEW WHIG FOR DUMBARTONSHIRE

... they would themselves be probably un- equal, butin a Conservative trying-to persuade his constituents that he is very like a Whig, the enterprise is too audacious, and one at once suspects insincerity. Is it possible that Mr. Smollett is ambitious of emulating ...

Published: Monday 10 October 1864
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2496 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MR. POPE HENNESSY ON THE WHIG GOVERNMENT

... Dwindled down to five maillioniL (Cries e I Down with or j the Whigs ?? Fortunately for nis that hal been done bel already; they are ?? we must keep, ?? e them down. (Loud cheers.) Even ten years of Whig Ml e rule carries a terrible lesson; let me remind you ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1866
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1327 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

ARE WE TO HAVE A WHIG REVIVAL?

... that in course of time, and i not of a particularly long time, the * emancipation of Lord Rosebery may mean the revival of the Whig party in Scotland, if not e on the other side of the Border as ivell. It is y not good for man to be alone; so we learn 0 on ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1896
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2683 | Page: 9 | Tags: News 

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF WHIG-ANDTORY-ISM

... ith both Whig and Tory birds are one and the same le. species v with variations. That this proposi- in tion requires to be defended and still furthersup ported is no mere imagination of ours. On the of contrary, as already said, both Whig and Tory le ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1864
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2283 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A WHIG SPY ON THE SCOTCH VOTERS OF 1788.*

... knowledge of life, shrewd observation of character, and -many amusing side lights which make it plain that the guiding motive of Whig politics was then (what Tories have maintained it always was and is) a system of adroit appeals to the self interest of all ...

Published: Saturday 02 July 1887
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1463 | Page: 5 | Tags: News