... these Tuesday evening State educationists consisted of the remnant of the old Whig rump, men who have supported as they will continue to support every measure introduced by a Whig Minister—and especially every measure combining centralisation and taxation—without ...

... gentlemen of all opinions. I only hope we have got no Whigs here. (Cheers and laughter.) What I mean by a Whig is this. That term has become a term of reproach to me; and I don't believe there are any Whigs except perhaps some ten or twelve families who form ...

... most clamorous for what they call national education; and if you met a parson who preaches in favour of divine right, or a Whig devoted to centralisation, or a man desperate in his opposition to the short time, the temperance, or the halt holiday movement ...

... inquiry into the workings of the Committee of Council, that mongrel bastard, born of secrecy and irre. sponsibility, which the Whigs have foisted on the constitution, but a committee will be resisted as long as possible by the present advisers of the Crown ...