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TO THE ELECTORS OF EDINBURGH AND THE WORKING MEN OF SCOTLAND

... I hope prepared, in the throes and heart- burnings of election struggles. The rallyingory of Government in danger, The Whig inte. rest, The Lorry,and TheIndustrialclasses are dangerous, is about to be raised by one faction, who aspire to rule ...

Published: Thursday 13 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1407 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

EARL RUSSELL ON REFORM

... probably leave some of his readers more in the dark on the matter of constitu- tional principles than they expected, from the Whig leader who drew up the law by which our national representation is at present ruled. On this subject he says:- There were evidently ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1865
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1037 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

Letter to the Editor

... necessdry to support the,. Whig Bill,: be. 'at cause the Liberals, too, were. going down the scale, hi and I thought it best to arreat,tbe downward.tendency. I But afterwards 1I eaw'that the Whig Bill wasidan. gerous (that is, the Whigs having secured oflice ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3347 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

General Intelligence

... 'proceeding would havoebee ,;sca~rcely. possible. iB The' Duke iis ;preeminently a Whig.' As 'Lord r d Harry.Vane'inddsd; -l-e.who the';very beau-ideal Ld. -:of a Whig, and ten yearas ajo would ihave held' Dr '.ecarcely two opinions' on, political subjects ...

Published: Thursday 14 September 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2368 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MARKED FEATURES OF THE LATE MR COBDEN

... Cobden the high 'compliment, whlich is uhiyvrsa1l1y x hat itwas .then' Sir Robert. Peel's po,liqy to exalt Cobden above 'the Whigs,, who had suddenly become total, repealers, and .uhose,.conduct, in ,coalescing, w~vith Lord, George, 'Benttnck aud' Mr Disraeli ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

MR W. E. BAXTER, M.P., AT FORFAR

... he was merely a pure Whig-(laughter.) Mr BAxTxR, in acknowledging the resolution,' said he had confessed his sins of omission and of commission, and he was glad to hear Mr Jameson do the same-(laughter and applause). The pure Whigs were long extinct. A ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 922 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

Letters to the Edidtor

... the instances stere witr tbie crnrvaosers, publioans particslarli, anid of the quarrelsome ladrs of big growtth hirerl by tie Whig cormierit ce. lFourthl and last-Two inltances at one boott, that at George Square, in which attempts owere orade by eaumvassers ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1441 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE PRESS ON THE REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH

... other words, the Liberals of Edinburgh are expected to aid in returning a Tory, and at the same time to aid in returp- ing a Whig who, if he were as honest as Adam Black, would declare himself to he a Tory tJo. Principles will have indeed come to a pretty ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4511 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

MR J. STUART MILL AND THE BALLOT

... has no right to use his land. lord's land to vote against him.' This is no peculiarity, of Toryism,.for in the.same county a Whig peer wrote to an honoorable member of the present Parliament, stating that as he (the noble Lord) did not think himn a fit ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ELECTION NEWS

... said there is a I 5 compact between the leading landlords in Rox. i 3 burghshire and Selkirkshire, that if the former return a Whig the latter must return 'a Tory. As the Hon. W. Napier lhas started in the Libe- I ral interest in opposition'to the eon of ...

Published: Monday 12 June 1865
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE FLIGHT OF PRESIDENT DAVIS

... Texas -avairy, on the nlight of the 16th escaping the observation vf the naval forces. : - Wash'n ton, April 22 The Richmnd Whig of yesterday says-2or some days it has been reported here that the so-called Confederate Government, consisting of Jeff. Davis ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1865
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 466 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SKETCH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

... supported by the electors A of his own district as a candidate for a seat in the 9- State Legislature; but his principles being Whig, LO he was rejected by the county in favour of a Demo. crrat. Unsuccessful in the country store which he then opened, he wvas ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1865
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1799 | Page: 3 | Tags: News