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... 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 ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... matters anrl salaries, dawned upon the practical mind of the Anglo-Saxon race. A new political group took its seat beside the Whigs and the Tories. Henceforth it never quitted the House of Commons. There it acquired its rank, its influence; there it caused ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... to say gave him more pleasure than any subsequent success in life. He served three months, and on his return was nominated a Whig candidate for the Illinois legislature, but the country being Democratic he was beaten. His own election precinct, however ...