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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... Peelite Conservatives cheered because they remembered Lord J. Russell's Edinburgh letter and the tardy conversion the Whigs ; the Whigs cheered because they gladly gave the credit to Mr. Cobden rather than to the Minister ; and tlve Protectionists cheered ...

LATEST NEWS

... pushed towards Lynchburg. He is very confident receiving Lee's surrender, together with the remains of hi* army. fflie Richmond Whig, now a Union paper, says that the evacuation of the city had been progressing for a month. The people, however, refused to ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 637 | Page: 4 | Tags: Commerce 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... will, in many cases, overtop the Whigs in denunciations profligate armaments. If the new Parliament is pledged to anything it will economy in the public expen diture. Electioneering addresses beginning to issued. Whig candidates can 110 longer conceal ...

Published: Monday 24 April 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1478 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... Sherman is said to have reached the Danville Road «,!i Tuesday, tearing up the track between Danville and Greenburg. The Richmond Whig states that an informal meeting lias been held by the members of the Virginia Legislature, who remained near Richmond, to consider ...

Published: Monday 24 April 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3045 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... at large en the Democratic ticket. He canvassed a large portion of the State, meeting upon the stump several of the leading Whig orators. 1841 was elected the State Senate. In 1840 he was elected to Congress, where, by successive* elections, he served ...

Published: Friday 28 April 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6571 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Lo-nox, Saturday, Mr. Lowe's elaborate speech argainist Mr. Baines' £0. Franchise Bill ..

... by his middle-cliss PaNlilmenlt has doeme so much for ednuca- tiod as the releloval of taxes one knowledge whiclh Mr. Lowe's Whig fiicund so long opposed, acnd weicds Isis lsew Colservative admceirers persistesetly hiscdered to the vesy last. The moneopoly ...

Published: Monday 08 May 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4227 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... the House, were both instructive ami amusing, and will bear to reproduced a sample the arguments by which the nominee of a Whig peer seeks to justify the exclusion ot the working cla&ses from the franchise. And your petitioners respectfully mention the ...

evening paper, literally devoted to the old Whig party, announces that there is just now a in politics —we

... evening paper, literally devoted to the old Whig party, announces that there is just now a in politics —we quote our contemporary's emphasis as well as his words. After the debates Mr. Bainks's Franchise Bill, we find no difficulty in giving credit ...

PARTY PROSPECTS

... contest or ally themselves with the only party which recognises the theory of progress even ecclesiastical administration. The Whigs have, too, the support of the most active class, those who really desire to change this, that, or the other institution, and ...

Published: Monday 15 May 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1510 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... many friends of progress, and cause a loss of several seats to the Liberal party. The Whigs will have uneasy time of the hustings next July, ami when a trimming Whig opposed a hearty and sincere Reformer, it is neit doubted which side the sympathies of ...

MR. .JOHN BRIGHT, MP, ON THE COMING ELECTION

... Government not willing fulhl the pledges of 1 5.,!• and S(,O. When it is question of reform or expulsion from office, the Whig statesmen will decide ill t.ivoiir of reform. This is the only effectual mole of dealing with them, and hope it will be adopted ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

NEWS OF THE DAY

... the party whose supj-ort their existence, a Ministry, depends. During all this time, while Ministers and their supporter#—Whigs and Radicals, with a good many moderate Conservatives thrown in—have diligently sought to undermine the Constitution, to upset ...