... extreme delicacy in con- tracting pecninary obligations. When the secession of the Duke of Portland, with a large section of the Whig party towards the commencement of the Frenshs Revolution, de- prived Fox of all immediate chance of office, he stooped to accept ...

... ages of eighteen and forty-five should have been forced into the army. The death of LinconI was no loss to the South. He was a Whig and non- slaveholder, while Johnson was a democrat and formerly owned slaves, therefore the South could have confidence in ...

... at least three- fourths of the landed proprietors are Whigs, but sisce 1841 they have not as a body interfered with the votes of their tenantry. Consequently the great bulk of the tenantry on the Whig estates have gradually become Con- servative. This ...

... soldier; he had citered with all his heart into the battle for reform ; and frons that time forward lie held in the great Whig army a place, if not of command, yet of trust and of influence. Perhaps no man was better acquainted thrant he with the secret ...

... decease of Mr. Joseph Parkes, ose of the taxing-masters in the Court of Chaicesy, and widely known amuongst members of the Whig party as a most influential ally, the literary world will lose a work of historical criticisuc and inquiry which would have ...

... going to the poll as iberal Conservatives, and protesting that their princi- ples are almost identical with those of the old Whigs. Say they, There really is no difference between us and the Liberals. We are quite as eager as they are for reform, and we ...