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

... I went to in it will find that they have done a real service to the London and heard for certainty of Josephine's ms.riage Whig ministry and their supporters, and a real injury to with a man I hate above all men I was nearly driven the national cause ...

... land Lord PALMERSTON to the skies, as a fountain of wisdom and liberality, perpetually flowing, unless choked by Tory mud and Whig weeds ; also to press for a vigorous demonstration in favour of extreme Liberal views ; and then, lest he should be set down ...