... Presidency ca lied Mr Lincoln back to political life, and upon Mr Pollock's election, Mr Lincoln entered Congress as the only Whig representative from Illinois. He took his seat in December 1847. In fifteen months the Congress closed, but Mr Lincoln had ...

... creeds. If it be meant that they have generally approved indirect rather than direct taxation, they have only done what the Whigs have done equally with themselves; and if it be a mark Toryism to uphold the merits of the former rather than the latter system ...

... the astonishment of that party, and what must have been the indignant amazement of the general public, to witness this week a Whig Minister --the Russell of Reform—not • only definitely abandoning the question without a single word of eloge, but actually ...

... every one suspected of opposition to the Whig oligarchs. IN e need not travel over that decade of political degeneracy. We blush, even as adversaries, to recall the tricks and tears and shameless treachery of Whig statesmen whom a generous but too confiding ...

... sufficiently powerful to get en by itself? In spite of this, our Government cherish the superstition, that oar most precious Whig is to walk over Europe arm-ins arm with Napoleon, and, it may be, to train him in the path wherein he is to go,—and some private ...

... the Pembroke boroughs is Mr Meyrick, of Bush, in whose behalf an active canvass has been commenced. It is expected that the Whig-Redical candidate will be Colonel Owen (now Sir Hugh Owen). the late defeated candidate for the county. —Carmarthen Journal ...

... OF WHIGGERY AND REFORM. (Prom the Press.) The waning life of the great Whig party expired on Tuesday with their unseemly burial of Reform. The strange outburst of levity with which Lord John Russell performed the obsequios of the great Constitutional ...

... any Cabinet since the Whig Cabinet of 1839 shown such unmistakable proofs of utter incapacity to conduct the affairs of the country as the present? Derangement in the finances has, time out of mind, been the concomitant of Whig management. When was the ...

... putting forth candidates who are most likely to combine the support of all sections of their general adherents. It is only the Whigs, however, who are thus opening their veins and allowing their strength to flow away in gentle eddies; the more eager, and, ...

... party there also? Are we there also to have Liberal candidates of every shade of liberality ? Or are we there also to have a Whig candidate whom nobody knows, or for whom nobody cares? Bath is not without Tories, and the game which has just been played ...