... THE MONAGHAN ELECTION At first three candidates formally took the field. Of these Mr. M'Mahon, the Whig candidate, who had stiddenly declared himself to be a convert to Home Rule, very soon withdrew. Next, to the great astonishment of his supporters and ...

... inn to now say that the statement as to the party policy which the Whig leaders of the period professed their readiness to adopt is accurate and authentic. No doubt the views of the Whig leaders of 1844 may be, in 1871, of little value in the estimation ...

... rapacity. The Whigs effect the same object with more skill, courtesy, and diplomatic craft. They swindle, while the others rob. Violence is the creed of the one ; craft, duplicity, perfidy, and politeness are the practice of the others. Whigs differ from ...

... the feelings with which the Whigs regard the hill, the Loudon correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says :— There is no concealing the fact that among a certain section of the lauded and moneyed interests of the Whigs the prospect of any further movement ...

... leaders of the Whig party in England expressed their readiness to entertain the question of a Federal Parliament for Ireland. Now people talked of the Home Rule movement as if it were wild and treasonable, but they were entitled to ask were the Whig statesmen ...

... mean and mangy animal servile and sneaking times insolent, truculent, and imperious at others. What else than a kennel of Whigs is our present Ministry Look their conduct when in, and compare it with their professions when out, of office ! Can we find ...

... must become his friend. The English Whigs became the friends of O'Connell ; and this friendship unquestionably ruined him. It furnished the Young Irelanders with irresistible arguments against his policy. The Whigs held him up in their arms while his ...

... question for the Queen's County—would treat landlords better than English factionists. 'We are perfectly certain that the Whigs, in the exigencies of party warfare, would do what they did before—throw the landlords overboard, and confiscate rents and ...

... liberator with hypocrisy. Ho says O’Connell only started the Repeal agitation because the Whigs broke their pledges, and that was any time willing to give it if the Whigs would only do what is called justice. This is plainly denying that O’Connell believed ...

... by Catholic Emancipation, though he did not exactly like O’Connell’a way of bringing it about. It prepared the way for the Whig* and Reform. He might now have looked for acme place under government, of the sinecure kind. But at fifty-two the literary ...

... the secret it was recognised as a part performance of an understanding actually come to in the councils of the great English Whig leaders of the day, that in their return to place, for which they were, of course, iu pantmg expectation, Federalism should ...

... Oh, I’ve recollections Of great elections, That took place hero in our ancient town ; I heard orations At nominations Where Whig and Tories would trampled down. I saw peelers mounted. That couldn’t be counted. And lines of soldiers with their bayonets ...