... Catholic strength, either in Ireland or in Great Britain, has been exerted on the side of the Whig-Liberals and against the Tories. if they are determined to be Whigs, or Liberals, or Radicals. or Democrats. or Palmerstonians, or Gladstonians, or what they ...

... preference to a Whig. For many years past, Ireland has had full and ample opportunity of testing Whig Rule, and in the history of the world, there could he nothing to equal it in misgovernment, and cruel indifference. ' ' GENERAL ELECTIONS.-NO WHIGS! (From the ...

... that Catholic Whigs; should use their Whiggery for the service Catholic interests, as that Catholic Tories should to their Toryism for the service of Catholic interests. When have we refused to aid a Catholic Whig in obtain. ing from the Whigs any concession ...

... English leaders is weak enough. The Irish Whig and his Imperial supporters are grappled with hooks of steel. The allegiance of the Tory is given to his principle,, or the prejudices which he dignifies by that If a Whig Government adopts those prejudices to ...

... liberal when in it. The Whigs are Tories in olive, and Liberals when in opposition. Consequently, Ireland may expect far more from the Tories in a year or two than they have got from the Whigs for the past twenty years. Corrupt Whig journals wish to see ...

... no- thing to do with a Whig or a Tory if you can get an honest Independent Oppositionist ; but if circumstances compel you to choose between a Whig and a Tory—never vote for the Whig. Nothing can exceed the knavery of the Whigs—except the stupidity of ...

... the saints, and although the Whigs have given vast sums to the enemies of the faith for the purpose of undermining it, we have sustained Whigs. We deplore the depopulation of the country by k i d laws, but although the Whigs will not amend the land cods ...

... Ireland, they fly to England for consolation. In Ireland the very name of Whig and Whiggery is odious, and yet the simple an'aided Saxon is desired to respect and sympathise with the Whigs out of regard to the Irish people, by whom they are warned and detested ...

... presents to-day under the beneficial operation of English laws, administered by Whig and Tory Governments. And if a balance were to be struck, we believe it would be found that the Whig- Liberals have dune more to debase and impoverish the Irish people than the ...

... so ill. If the present race of Whigs persist in making these men its leaders, and it seems determined to do so, let it attribute to them our alienation and our active antagonism, and if we can effect it, its fall. The Whigs are a race hungry for power, ...

... sufficient reason either for overcoming their indifference to the Whig and Tory parties, or for sacrificing the interests of the Tory party. We do not think that the most inveterate partisan of the Whig alliance can refuse to be satisfied with this, or can withhold ...

... and gentry of Ireland would be disposed to join a Whig Liberal association if they thought they could control and direct it. We think that an Irish Catholic Whig Liberal Association, with an avowed Whig Liberal programme, fairly and manfully endeavouring ...