... place. He waa elected his by the Democratic party, which, however, failed to re-elect him in 1840, when he was defeated by the Whig candidate, General Harrison. In 1848 was the candidate of -the Free-soil Democrats. To this schism in the Democratic camp General ...

... patronage at the disposal of the present Government. It has been Sir John Harding's fate to advise the Government (whether Whig or Tory) on the international questions that arose during the Russian and Italian wars, on the affair of the Charles et Georges ...

... we are so involved that we cannot get out of our diffities without recourse to arms. We shall be allowed, according to the Whig policy of recent years, to drift into a Chinese War, and thus add to the derangement of our Finances. All this affords another ...

... A Flattering Sketch of Lord Palmerkton.— The man who has been everything by turns and nothing long —Tory, Coalitionist, Whig, fancy man of the Radicals, the Coalitionist again, and again the ]»et the Tories—subordinate Percival and follower Castlereagh ...

... was elected for the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent in 1841, and continued to represent it until his death. In politics he was a Whig, and something more. Inheriting some of his father's talent political economist, he distinguished himself the author of several ...