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WHIG & TORY

... WHIG & TORY. THE present political Munition would be amusing were it not at a crisis in European history, and fraught with consequences of momentous import. The political atmosphere, indeed, is wane, but party spirit is frigid and cool. The country ...

THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1866. POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE WHIG

... JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1866. POSITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE WHIG PARTY. Old Whig” sends a long letter to the Times, from Brookes’,” on the present position and prospects of the Whig party, in which he says : It has often been remarked that it is rather ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2016 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS,

... expressive party names, such as Whig and Tory used to be. Whig and Tory were definite terms. They had a certain historical signification, and were unmistakeable. Tories never grumbled because they were not called Whigs, as the Conservatives do because ...

Published: Wednesday 07 February 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1821 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

REFORM DEMONSTRATIONS

... ; and his assumptions and j allegations, which go any length, were they worth much, would be as fatal to the hopes of the Whigs as they i would be confirmatory of the fears of the Tories. They point to objects equally repulsive to both, but to which the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1232 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MINISTERIAL RUMOURS

... the Legislature.” What says this gonerally-confessed-fact to the sincerity of the Whig love for reform ? It leaves us to infer that no reform that comes not through the Whig manufactory could be called by the name—that for any minister but Earl Russell to ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2380 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4,

... speaking, in political hair powder and silk stockings; while an overanxious Conservative, here and there, no doubt pictures his Whig neighbour as longing for free and easy sans cullotte democracy, with the Phrygian cap for his only head gear. Much of this ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1431 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CONSERYATIVES AND REFORM

... question, and, supported by the Conservative party, took an active and efficient part in the government of the country ; the Whigs then broadly asserted that the Reform Act was a final measure. The Radicals disappointed by the Reform Act, became angry, and ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1176 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

notes on the news of the week

... honour of the great apostle of Free Trade, is an event of considerable interest. The club is |not merely to consist of Whigs and Whig Radicals, but is open to all Free Traders. The chief addresses at the dinner were delivered Mr Gladstone, Earl Russell ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 723 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MINISTERIAL DIFFICULTIES,

... Government in the cause of Irish education. This was not agreed to. But the Irish Colleges were not a gift of the Whigs, and have no claim on Whig protection, consequently it was thought advisable to affiliate with them the Roman Catholic opposition school ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1866
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 842 | Page: 8 | Tags: none