... laid on by the whigs or liberals; was no such thing; the' tax was first laid on by the conservatives ; it was done by Sir Robert Peel -(cheers and laughter). Ir, was the tories who brought in the income tax; butl do not mean say that whigs and liberals ...

... pronounced himself whig and gloried the name. He did not like the new fangled terms of conservative and liberal. He was a whig and felt proud of the name. The meeting cheered this upstanding vindication of that term, because under the old Whig banner so much ...