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orresponbaut. TliE CHANDoS CLAUSE

... under the landed interest. The objection taken by the Whigs was more. dictated by supposed party interest than because of any viola tion of principle introduced by the Chandos Clause. In counties the Whigs had not so many tenants as the Tories, and tha Radicals ...

lIILLARD FIUME!, THE NEW PRESIDENT

... prominent member of the body. In 1814 he was selected as the Whig candidate for governor of New York, but failed. Confident, however, that be could command the strongest vote in New York, the Whigs again selected him as their candidate for comptroller, in ...

Jrclanb

... r Duffy, of the Nation said— I abhor all outrage against a woman, I abhor all coarseness towards a woman ; but I tell the Whig Ministry from this place, as I told them from other places, and as I sha'nt fail to tell them, that while Smith O'Brien is ...

THZ ESTE FRESEDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

... removal of friend or foe. As to my Cabinet, I intend that all interests and sections of the country shall be represented. lam a Whig, as I have always been free to acknowledge, but I do not believe that them who voted for as. wish me to be a mere partizan ...

Summarn

... many years ago, and was a great favourite with the public. The grant is now numbered amongst other Whig jobs, and strange it is bow ready they, the Whigs, have at all times shown themselves to do any of the dirty work of royalty. The public cannot have ...

*unimarn

... ordinary mortals—a kind of political kaleidoscope for the amusement and bamboozlement of the people, and the ever-ready refuge of Whig indolence and Conservative imbecility. But the contemptible drivelling and small talk of Lord John Russell are not the c ...

(From the Times of Wednesday.)

... which question lie was placed in contact with the perhaps suprior. mid certainly loom leisure-fed, minds of eminent men of the Whig parry. Struck with the views, he did not shrink from adopting and carrying them against the earnest protests of his family ...

tnglanb

... Would the Corn-laws have ever been abolished if we had not had men in our front ranks who were prcof against the old war-cry of Whig and Tory? Such a doctrine may suit cliques and clubs, but what would the great public say to it 1 Try one of your large meetings ...

THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL

... was with the Tories, but not of them, just as at his death be was supporting IThigs, although he could never have become a Whig. lie rose into executive preeminence upon the ruined Lopes of Iluskisson. Ile resisted, so long as that was practicable, the ...