... The Whig newspapers had smashed' Mr M`Laren, and they were now to see how the citizens of Edinburgh would follow Whig example; aud in order to make the smuhingeffectual, the Church.and-Tory candidates were zealously adopted, so that between Whigs, Tories ...

... very generally approved , without _distinction of _party—the tariff ii no longer a bone of contention , but the _views of _Whigs and Democrats , _as to the _modifications _it _requires , are very _nearly coincident . . In _short , time and _events have ...

... Stets ticket M the by mejority of several tbonimeads; yet io November following she gave Humane her electoral is 1818 elected a Whig governew be less than ; is November oho rave Taylor over 13.000 ma ority. It aoleolsted that Irreroont ma effort to lot ler ...

... Know- Nothings with portion of the Southern conservatives ; and the Republicans comprise the chief part of the old Northern Whigs, the great body of anti-slavery Know-Nothings, the independent Democrats, and, scarcely acknowledged, the scattered forces ...

... ignorant of their real weakness, would be content with nothing short of supremacy in the Council, and the old rump of the Whigs, whose mouthpiece the Scotsman affects to be. The manner in which the representatives of these ecclesiastical and political ...

... mere Quixotism to risk lance against it. The very fanaticism of the Abolitionists conspired to give it strength. When the Whigs, after vainly attempting to find a party cry in such questions Free Trade—attempts always nullified by the blighting compact ...

... condition, savouring of the sere and yellow leaf,” has excited feelings of anxious solicitude among hia Whig admirers. There are lofty individuals among the Whigs, who abstain from the troubles and anxieties of official life, partly from indolence, and partly ...

... every district which was lost even in part, that loss was principally due to deficient organisation. The defeated Church-and-Whig party complain that their signal rout was owing solely to the want of energy and systematic effort; but while that is apparently ...

... gentlemen to take office in the town. To such men in office Ewe say the town is much in- debted. But what a prostrate town have the Whig Mem- bers made it. One of them lent his lawyer hand to deprive Leith of its exclusive right of ferry; another assisted to make ...

... against some worse men, but in Calton his prospects of success are small against Bailie Fyfe, against which the Church-and-Whig party are ostentatiously running him. In Broughton Ward, Messrs Johnston, Greenoak, and Hay are opposing three Church candidates ...

... _quite boyond _question _na to the _anxiety that would _necessarily _exist as to _whether _Lord Liindcwno and _the other _Whigs who had _taken office _under _Canning would _take _office again under his _successor . And Lord _Cockburn * s accuracy _being ...

... the reformers stray along diverging paths, each dwelling on his own infinitesimal project, the Conservatives, including the Whigs, bear down in comp let First they beat Mr Berkeley, then they baffle Sir Henry Clay. Next they turn their extended frout against ...