... success at the bar of Springfield. politics, to which, whilst following his profession, paid great attention, he joined the Whig party, and was a warm supporter of Henry Clay. In 1846 was elected to Congress, and continued to belong to it till 1849. He ...

... Saint*,” and the entire range of modem penny literature, and betaken himself for season to the company of the late heretical Whig, Lord Macaulay. In the (see of the Index Expurgatoriut, this, we oonfesa. is ■arpriaing. Nay, is heroic. We hope that none ...

... end was in the receipt of very handsome income. The office of drughtaman counsel lor the Home Office becoming vacant, the Whig Minister had the good judgment offer the appointment to Mr. Conlson, who accepted it, performed the duties most ably ud sa ...

... substitute “The the City Elections,” we may fittingly apply the passage to our contemporary’s late article »” 'P“ The great Whig writer may talk of the “ wilful and deliberate mendacity” of the a not to be matched but. in department of audacious invention ...