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WHIG PATRONAGE-AND EDINBURGH POLITICS

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Published: Friday 28 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE UNITED STATES—THE PRESIDENCY

... In his politics he was a decided Whig, in favour of a Bank, of protection to American manufactures, of internal improve- mxents at the coat of the national Government, and of the other cardinal articles of the Whig creed, all of which are now obsolete ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 742 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE PEELITE TIME COMING

... cer- tain indolent catholicity. They have not strong symnpathy with the psoplo; but neither have they the Whig contempt for the people, nor the Whig exclusiveness. Their cardinal defect is a xwant of energ, . . . . . . . . . They have some of the high ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... Blackie and Ifowden. The Whig Paradise may yet be regained, and the clique's first man, Adam, be perfectly happy at head-quatiers, St Stephens.: There at his leisitie hours-hours all leisure, we opine, till the ring of the Whig cliqle, voting bell-perhaps ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 568 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE FUTURE REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH

... Cabinet to which he fbelongs, there may be worse Lord Advocates and worse Cabinets too ; and we should be soiry to see even a Whig sacrificing himself in a fit! not of heroism but insanity, by jumpirng, gown and al, down a rift which will l not close one ...

Published: Monday 12 March 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1141 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES AND INCIDENTS

... Italians again wearing the heavy and grevious Austrian yoke they have cast off. Ie comes back to harass his old patrons, the Whigs, in their foreign policy, to malign the Liberal party. in Tuscany and Central ltaly, and to interpose petty and frivolous obstacles ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1426 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... or all hones't writ- ing on the subject by Whig journalists; it is noticed in the extremely cautious and guarded expressions of opinion as to the fate or prbs- pectsof the bill, on the part of recognised Whigs in the -House of Commons; and it re- ceives ...

Published: Monday 23 April 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2232 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

... which he steconed the State for the Whigs. When the Legislature met the demo- cracy wats in the majority, sad General Shields, the demcratic candidlate, was aleeted. In 18B55 he was againl the candidate of the Whigs for United Staites Senator before the ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

AFTERNOON EDITION

... to be a very fine fight if the men will only come to fill the ranks. The Tory opposition dos dot want to kill the Whig Cabinet, and the Whig Cabinet does not intend to be killed. The case is one in which every member may vote according to his conscience ...

Published: Friday 03 August 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 817 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... Morrison, now the paid secretary of the Old Whig Clique, has been most indefatigable in his exertions, going about amongst the Chinrchmen and Tories, and asking them to attend the meeting to support the Whig members! ! ! Do you remember Mr Campbell Smith ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1288 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CANDIDATES FOR THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

... dismissed very briefly. The National a Union party which it represented consists of the 3 remnant of the famous old Americafn Whigs. Their c rominee, Mr. Bell, of Tennessee-a Southern gentle- ri man vitlh Northern leanings-would make the best a of all possible ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1285 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... bTHAT a sensation the telegraphic report of Mr Adam Black's speech on the Reform Bill created in this city! Ho* our Toryistic Whigs looked amazed and confounded at the blunder of their member in so incautiously letting the cat out of the bag; how our anadvanced ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1860
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2433 | Page: 2 | Tags: News