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Our London Letter

... that the cheeringceame .rmeiiljyc from i thje oiy side of the H use' a ' that fron hisK own side, excepting from a few old Whigs, he got but 4ittle applailt, 'w'lilst the'-Radicals cqiulftf hiryi~e)fraui ficrn strpong expressions of . disa~fipiobitio'i ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3988 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Correspondence

... an occasional chit- chat with some of your citizens, your present humiliating position has chiefly been brought aboutbythe Whig Clique Parliament House fac- tion, who move heaven and earth, for their own. purposes, to put yokes about the necks of their ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2350 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE ANNUITY-TAX BILL

... Bill. Was not that all iu the path eof duty ? Was it not all for your interests ? What did I care whether these officials were Whig or Tory? That was nothing to me as Lord Provost of the city of Edinburgh. It was only in that character I waited on them, for ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 18414 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SENATOR SEWARD ON SECESSION

... Jeffersonian, born and dyed in to the faith of the Republican fathers, h somehow or other, because I happened to be- e come a Whig, I was held responsible for the f Hartford Conventiou-(lauLghter). And I have made this singular discovery in' contrasting ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1634 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE LONDON PRESS AND OUR LOCAL GRIEVANCES

... serious, we have been accustomed to pay.but little, perhaps too y ,little, attention tb the plaint of the protesters, Y. again't -Whig dotidination. Now, 'howev.r, t there appears a prospect of something like 'an pffective opposition.. The balanced state' of ...

Published: Friday 11 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4283 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

DOGMA'S OPINIONS ON THINGS IN GENERAL

... sympathy to be most sincere which is obh tained from old-tried friends. I see that the Whig and Tory papers sail in the same boat. Bassured fren, th a , I When Whig and Tory do agree, It bodes some great calamity. However, I have no doubt but that Liberalism ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3156 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

COURT AND CABINETS OF WILLIAM IV. AND VICTORIA

... at this moment on better terms with our former friends than we were. I firmly believe that the majority of them prefer the Whigs to us. The reason is this, their ob- jection to us is without reason, and personal. They must see that we were right and they ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 964 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Our London Letter

... upon the t Government, it will lose its character-become, indeed, a standing army; one of the things v of all others that the Whigs of the olden time 3 mqst strongly denounced. Liberals should be l the last to urge upon the Government an ex- penditure of ...

Published: Monday 28 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2718 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

RESTORATION OF THE CITY CROSS

... disturbed been; y -Xve seen the Torypartyslain, d . .'And Whigs exulting o'er the plain: in I've' seen tgai.n the Tories lise, And with loud shouting pierce the skies, Then crown their king and chase the Whig f, From Pentland Hill to Bothwell Brig, ill I've seen ...

Published: Tuesday 29 January 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4691 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN ANNAN

... POLITICAL PRoPsEcY.-The following is from Hurst & Blackett's new work Courts and Cabinets of William IV. anl Victoria. -The Whigs were drawing upon themselves the change of the tide which one of the wise t of their leaders had foreseen. Daring one of the ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 868 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR SEWARD'S SPEECH

... to nothing-it is all talk ; another, We shall never approve of that. The moderate men from the border slave States with Whig ante- cedents were pleased with it. One said, It is beyond what I expected from Mr Seward, though not so much as I could ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 700 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... reason to give up. hope. The darkest hour is that before the day, and': though hand join in hand, as is now'othe :case with Whigs and Tories, the public may, rest assured that the politically no more 'than 'the ethicajly wicked shall prosper. TIns cotton ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1861
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2704 | Page: 2 | Tags: News