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WHIGS KEEP MOVING

... WHIGS KEEP MOVING. Keep moving, says Coventry; Keep moving, says Tamworth. Such we take to be the sense expressed by these Liberal constituencies. It is keep moving, and not notice to quit, which is different; for we fancy that the hottest Tory ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1863
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1033 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A LESSON TO THE WHIGS

... when the Whigs cease to represent progress, they cease to represent anything but placemen. If there to be progress, then the Whigs arc in the wrong place. But there can be standing 1 still this active activecountry, and therefore when the Whigs halt, the ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1861
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Insulting the Dead !—We have received the letters of Indignatio and an Old Whig, both of

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. Insulting the Dead !—We have received the letters of Indignatio and an Old Whig, both of which we beg to withhold. The latter is rather strong for modern taste, even though the offence merits condign punishment. If street blackguard ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1862
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RUMOURED CHANGE OF MINISTRY

... not be any longer a question between them and the Whigs, but between them and the people ; nor do they allow themselves to be deceived now more than ever by successes at the hustings. It is the Whigs, and not the Tories, who have been misinterpreting ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1864
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1219 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTES OF THE WEEK

... said— ' He was a Tory, a good old Tory, and hated Whig the devil hated holy water.' He appealed to the passions of the crowd, ascribing the cause of all the wide distress to the maladministration of the Whig Government, who had introduced and brought about ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1863
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BRIGHTON ELECTION AND ITS LESSON

... and tiresome. The lesson to which Aye allude is the proof here afforded of the effect of Whig lukewannncss upon the public mind of the country. So often have the Whigs been beaten of late years in isolated elections, as to leave the numerical strength of ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1864
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTES OF THE WEEK

... your face. They were vexed with the Whigs on two grounds—the first being the French Treaty, which deprived Coventry ribbons of protection, and the second, as alleged, the Government is constituted of mere Whigs, who have, through their mouthpiece ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1863
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 914 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE DINNER TO MR. TAYLOR, M.P

... leading organ of the Tories ? The Whig gentlemen who took part in the proceedings at the Temperance Hall on Monday, and the Three Crowns the following day, are thus photographed:— Now we see these very gentlemen [the Whigs] standing on opposite tack, quietly ...

Published: Saturday 31 January 1863
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1340 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, K.G. It is with regret that we announce tho demise of the Duke of

... occasions with the Whig party, and although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures of the Whig Governments. Indeed every instance he avoided office, but in the dissensions among the Whig party the political ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1861
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 469 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 1EICESTEBSHIRH MERCURY. Si Observing in the Chronicle of last week, an article DQ the public

... unintentionally, reflecting upon mvself, It is very singular to relate that we have heard of one of their number (i.e. the Whigs) who was asked to sign the requisition. In reply, or explanation, the facts of the case were simply these : Thinking it alike ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1860
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 5 | Tags: none