... North American independence, having passed under whig presidents, and 8 of thoselB years were those of the great Washington's tenure of that office. Strange to say, during these last 10 years, first one whig president, Mr Harrison, died shortly after his ...

... opposition to the Whigs. do not pretend to follow the course of this opposition in its minute details. For the first two or three year* it comprised resistance, first to the reform measure itself, and then to the measures which the Whigs introduced in the ...

... Parliament, broken up into two great sections in 1846, remained dissevered by an inevitable necessity, and from its division the Whigs derived much of their safety. But all this is now past and gone. The counter-attraction, which thus kept about fifty of the ...

... have delivered violent speeches the subject. The following is a fair specimen of the speech delivered Mr Duffy:—l tell the Whig Ministry from this place that while Smith O'Brien is in Maria Island they shall not dare to bring the Queen of England into ...

... upon Scotland and Ireland a law from which their principles and feelings alike revolt, is an act especially opposed to those Whig and Liberal principles In which the vast larger proportion of the majority profess to glory. Under a softer name and fair pretence ...

... by advertisements and agitation, to make it known; the Scotsman advocates Lord Melgund's bill, and represants those modern Whigs whose political philosophy consists of a strange jumble of continental liberalism, aristocratic conservatism, and thoroughly ...

... representative, to the highest honours of the Federal State, by the unaided force of his ability and trustworthiness. Ile is a Whig politician of the Clay school, who goes somewhat beyond Mr Clay himself in his principles of protective political economy and ...

... It is there the Whigs re sensitive. (Hear.) What care they for honourable it feeling? But they care for votes in Parliament, and we . will meet them on that ground—Tories, Conservatives— , - devils, shall have our votes rather than Whigs. I abhor • all ...

... believe, have been the only Commoner in that illustrious order, except Sir Robert Walpole, for the last century. The great Whig Premier, who made a plaything of the peerage, could not resist the blue ribband. More recently we have seen how the most m ...

... qualified. It is well known that the United States have ever since their establishment, been divided into two great parties—the Whigs and Democrats. The former maintain the permanence and ...

... The Dean of Faculty and Mr Fox Maule behaved like true patriots on the occasion, and would that on all national questions, Whig and Tory differences were thus merged in a common zeal for our country's good. The Lord Advocate seems to have thought it a ...

... the franchise to those who were unfitted to exercise it. llad lie been in Parliament at the time, he slimad have opposed the Whig bill. Sir B. lIALL assailed the course taken by Mr Disraeli, sad taunted him with having been the protege of Mr O'Connor and ...