... the adoption of Free Trade, when the abolition of the malt duty was spoken of Whig statesmen as an event that must of necessity happen, and yet the descendants of these Whig statesmen now get up in their places in Parliament and defend the retention of ...

... North Devon unsuccessfully, but was returned for that divhien of the county April, 1857, and re-entered the House of Commons on Whig principles. His varied labours as a public man may be best shown by an enumeration of the offices he held with distinction ...

... say the gentleman was prig, sir ? somebody once asked of Dr. Johnson. Worse, sir, roared that great, truly great man— Whig ! but he's both. If I were so unlucky, said an officer, as to have a stupid son, I would certainly, by all means, make ...

... is not only incomplete, but stained with a multitude of faults. Macaulay, it has been said, wrote not a history, but a great Whig pamphlet. Other historians have devoted themselves to the task of making religion appear ridiculous, others to that of reh ...

... equals, not our inferiors. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate have reported against the taxation of exports. The Richmond Whig says there was no cotton in Charleston at the time of the evacuation. Richmond papers infer that General Sherman is consummating ...

... think he will win the object of his ambition, and become Lord Palmerston's successor : No Tory will support him ; not one old Whig family will follow him ; the House of Commons, if at all constituted as it now is, would not tolerate his want of temper for ...