... Mr. Divett; and there is no doubt it would have been carried by an overwhelming majority but for the interposition of the Whig government of the day, which promised to bring in a bill for the settlement of the question. It appears from this historical ...

... charity. Although a Republican, his republi- canism should be subordinate to the Union. He was willing to support the folio whig measures : — l. As to the Fugitive Slave laws, he conceded that, while by the constitution it is left to each State to determine ...

... he came into office, to hide the old line of demarcation separating re- formers from ant-ireformers. He declared that the Whigs should not have the monopoly of reform ; and that though Lord Derby came into power in 1852 to stem the tide of democracy, ...