... specie on freight. Large conventions had been held in the West, in favour of Mr Fremont for President. There had als ...

... thinking that if we war to stay in Dundee a' winter, I micht stand as a councillor. I am neither a party man nor teetotaller, nor Whig nor Tory. Wi'even down principles and straightforward actions, I would like to do quid to the tonn, and deal justly wi' the ...

... into a corner and piuioned there beyond the power of escape, the editor of the Whig has our permission to indulge his low-born instincts in lowflung bravado. Of course the Whig replies in a similar strain, to which its antagonist rejoins with increased ...

... respect and admire even in their antagonists. The fever of party-politics then ran high in Edinburgh as elsewhere ; and the Whig candidates were not over delicate or scrupulous in their efforts to depreciate and annoy the young rival who dared to meet ...