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... WHIG PURITY. Surely, surely the Whigs act purely When they talk about it so demurely, When their journals all against bribery clamour, (Not always in the best of grammar) When Nineveh's noble hero, Layard, Boasts himself chivalrous as Bayard: Tories may ...
... THE MEVOLUTIONAR7 OATHS BILL OF THE WHIG GOVERNMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER. Sir, —The Whigs of 1866 have degenerated. They are not what their pretended ancestors of were. Their policy and'tactics resemble rather the principles of the ...
... 249 sive partisanship for the Whig Government had not incapacitated him for fair reasoning. IVe pass over the Oath Bill, which is jast passing through the House of Lords with the support of both Whigs and Tories, and for which the Government deserve the ...
... EDITOR OP THE PEEss.,, Sir,—The political economy at present in po3- session of the public mind was written for the Whigs, and is Whig from beginning to end. It is not sound in principle, because it is the political economy of a section of the community ...
... and inconsiderate men bad kept the Whigs out of office for some years we might sympathise with the Freeman in its regret—but the fact is just the other way. These rash and ineonsiderate men have kept the Whigs in officefor the last seven years. Therefore ...
... main body of the Whig aristocracy will be parties to such an act of political treason and folly; but should, unhappily, the measures set on foot to delude, to cajole, or to intimidate them, be successful, the verdict of history upon the Whig party will be ...
... would certainly be entitled on that ground to the votes all men who might happen to bold that opinion. When Burke and the Old Whigs seceded from the New under the Duke of Portland, and under storm and stress of the French Revolution and Foxite sympathies ...
... of the situa- tion, and that the tenant farmers in Hertfordshire can carry an election. They may be able to decide whether a Whig or a Tory sliall bo elected — thof may bo masters of to small a situation as that. In ''Considerations on Representative Govern- ...
... y concerned in giving a victory within the neat fortnight either to the Whigs over the Tories, or to the Tories over the Whigs. It cannot be expected that most Catholics of Whig, or Liberal, or Radical, or Democratic opinions should feel anxious to defeat ...
... great parties, deciding whether the Ministry of the day shall be composed of Tory lords or Whig lords. Since 183S the popular feeling has been on the side of Whigs. They have obtained for themselves, linos tbs passing of the great Reform Bill, the name ...
... except for a brief season when the country in a fit of just anger turned the Whigs out., and had the Tories in—not for love of the Tories, but from temporary displeasure with the Whigs. All the great Liberal statemen of the last forty years have been converts ...
... the bill subject to all the opposition of Whig or of independent members in committee seem to impalpable. If Mr. means to announce a real reform in tbe distribution of seats, he most meet the opposition of the Whig borough owners a future stage, but he does ...