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A PURE WHIG ?

... A PURE WHIG pure Whig might be scientifically described as a concentration of political lymph. He is without colour and without pungency, but not without characteristics. There were blue and buff identities fifty years ago. These, however, have vanished ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1304 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Northern Whig says that at the adjourned inquest into the horrible act of the servant maid, Eliza M'Dowell, who

... The Northern Whig says that at the adjourned inquest into the horrible act of the servant maid, Eliza M'Dowell, who had attempted to conceal the birth of her female child, by covering it up in the fire, the jury, on the evidence of two medical gentlemen ...

Published: Thursday 27 March 1862
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY. The Richmond Whig of July 31 announces the death of the eminent Confederate ..

... DEATH OF WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY. The Richmond Whig of July 31 announces the death of the eminent Confederate citizen Mr W. L. Yancey, at MontgomeryAlabama. Born in South Carolina 1815, he resided for a long period of his life in Alabama, where, up to ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1863
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GOVERNMENT AND THE REFORM BILL IN EDINBURGH

... contrasted this conduct on the part of the present Whig officials in Scotland with the conduct of the Whig officials at the time of the Reform Bill, and for many years thereafter, and hinted that the present Whigs, although professed Liberals, were not really ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 681 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE COALITION AGAINST GLADSTONE

... of Free-trade. course, without the aid of the Whigs, such victory would be impossible; but if rumour may be credited, the Whigs are willing in this matter to do the dirty work of the Derbyites. Servile Whig journals, on all occasions ready for a fling ...

Published: Thursday 02 August 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 703 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Summary

... by the Whigs to a kind of political posturemaking. An equivocal Christian of the early ages kept on bowing terms with Jupiter, lest perchance the old mythology should one day again resume its sway. Profiting by so judicious precedent, the Whigs, uncertain ...

Published: Thursday 03 May 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1657 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM—AN HISTORICAL RETROSPECT

... devoted by the Whigs to kind of political posturemaking. An equivocal Christian of the early ages kept on bowing terms with Jupiter, lest perchance the old mythology should one day again resume its sway. Profiting so judicious a precedent, the Whigs, uncertain ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1495 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HISTORICAL WHIGGERY

... emancipation which the Whigs achieved for Scotland told anew, with all that undoubting faith in its veracity which a party man must needs exhibit. It would ' almost seem to be a settled article of the Whigs— we mean, of course, Edinburgh Whigs—that but for their ...

Published: Thursday 15 March 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HISTORICAL WHIGGERY

... emancipation which the Whigs achieved for Scotland told anew, with all that undoubting faith in its veracity which a party man must needs exhibit. It would almost seem to settled article of the Whigs— we mean, of course, Edinburgh Whigs—that but for their ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1860
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1393 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR BERNAL OSBORNE

... Carlton Club is fatal them. A truly Christian Whig, when smitten, as Mr Osborne has been, on the right cheek, would doubtless have turned the left cheek also to the hand of the smiter ; but truly Christian Whigs are rare fowl. Had Mr Osborne at once admitted ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1865
Newspaper: Dunfermline Saturday Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 679 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE REFORM DEBATE

... in the Whigs. From the Whigs, however, better things were expected. The people trusted the Whigs, and were betrayed. We bring no slander against the party in making this statement. We learn from Lord Jeffrey's Essays that the policy of the Whigs has ever ...

Published: Tuesday 16 April 1861
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1390 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Decease of the Morning Chronicle.—The Morning Star of Friday says:—The Morning Chronicle was not published on ..

... it having been established in 1770. For a long period it took the lead of the other journals, and represented the Whig Party and Whig politics with great ability and fidelity. The paper declined gradually in influence from 1840 till about twelve years ...

Published: Tuesday 25 March 1862
Newspaper: Dunfermline Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 4 | Tags: none