... remedy. Thqe Whigs were at the time singularly destitute of financial l ability, and the Tories, though blessed with a leaner of more than ordinary sagacity in such matters, were as a body even more prejudiced and ignorant than their Whig rivals. It may ...

... at large on the Democratic ticket. He canvassed a large portion of the State, meeting upon the stump several of the leading Whig orators. In 1S41 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1843 he was elected to Congress, where. by successive elections, ho ...

... opinion led the way. The fact is, it was the Whig element which preponderated iu the administration even after PITT'S death, and it required some circumstances which should display the differences between Whigs and Tories before they discovered that their ...

... there was one great point on which he sbowedno disposition to syinpathise with the Whigs. He was no friend to Parliamentary reform; and when in 1830 he joined the Whigs, and supported the Reform Bill, he probably did so quite as much from a conviction ...

... those of his rivals, ye At all events, he made way for them to carry the. tb measure by resigning the government. But the Whigs, pi were in no condition to accept' the hoxiour thus, el offered to them. t The diplomaldic rupture with Spain produced much ...

... -Lord Palmerston was a joeose poet of an order only inferior to Canning. His (Lord Palmerston's) contribu- tions to the New Whig Guide are admirable specimens of racv, good-humoured satire: but the Afthomewa is quite at fut m intinating its belief that ...