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... however, is the almost total 1 obsoleteness of the word Whig. Whig and Tory were, • my younger days, the only party watchwords, and I tl)i» k I remember something of an old song where they w-ere Whig'd and Tory'd in endless repetition. How this s ...
... Russell has lost every shyed credit and popularity which he ever possessed. He « simply the quondam leader of the Whigs ; and the Whigs are extinct as a party, though they still survive political coterie. His foreign policy has completed the ridicule ...
... clique to the permanent welfare cf the country, the Whigs now and again conciliate the Irish and the Radical party ; and this alone necessitates the formation of powerful Conservative ministry. Though the Whigs do not oppose themselves theoretically to tho ...
... admitting a groat number of educated, intelligent, and responsible persons, to the elective franchise, from which tho great Whig Reform Bill bad excluded them, was an evil to be avoided, rather than a benefit to be acquired, notwithstanding that that provision ...
... Death and the pitchfork have made such havoc among the members of the Cabinet in the House of Commons, and the exigencies of Whig traditions have made it so difficult to replace them, that they can now present but three prominent figures in that House. ...
... General Jackson's funeral took place at Richmond on the 12th, with great demonstrations of sorrow and respect. The Richmond Whig states that, since the death Washington, similar event has profoundly and sorrowfully impressed the people Virginia General ...
... the mistake of the session. ' During session which has been by no means waiting in minor mishaps—in the awkward blunders of Whig underlings, who have only been rescued from tie consequences of their errors by the dexterity of the Premier—and in some of ...
... whoso vaulting ambition could not be confined to India and China, came to the rescue with that constant device of the Whigs, a royal commission. (Laughter and hear, hear.) Against the whole of the argument of the hon. member 'for Poole ho set the ...