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TORYISM AND THE NATIONAL STRENGTH

... around him, or sheer unwillingness to endanger the arm-chair in which his prosperity seats him, is even more sensitive than a Whig, and that is the strength of our institu tions. He hates weakness even more than democracy, and he begins to perceive that ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... refers the decline of the Irish population not to the three bad harvests, but to twenty years almost unbroken Whig rule. The purpose of Whig Cabinets was, he said to be thus expressed :ā€” Drive human beings away to America, send in cows, and so make Ireland ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A MODERN LIBERAL STATESMAN

... that way. Mil shrink from it. Lord Melbourne took the latter toode. Yet though he thought with the Tories and acted with the Whigs, I always vindicated him from the charge of inconsistency. A man is not a traitor surrendering a town to the enemy when untenable ...

Published: Thursday 18 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 568 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE FARM

... magnesia and the hairs on the husks of oats, lhis large stone, as it may be called, was the aause of the horse's death.ā€” Northern Whig. ...

Published: Thursday 18 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 502 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE MARQUIS OF LORNE AND THE JAMAICA COMMITTEE

... mind a few facts the history of his own family. Two Earls of Argyll, the ancestors of Lord Lome, perished on the scaffold. Whig historians have always treated their execution as the acts of a political martyrdom. lam not disposed to challenge this impression ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 609 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON GOSSIP

... of the Liberals of the town lies in the Dissenters and thorough-going Radicals, but the committee are stick-in-the-mud old Whigs, and instead of choosing a man of pronounced liberal principles, whose presence would have created some enthusiasm, they adopted ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

pMfauutM

... 'ere is the Whig.' 4 If yon attempt to vote twice,' said the questioner, 4 Z shall have you arrested for violation the election law.' 4 You will 7 you will said the sovereign people. 4 Then I say lam denied the right of wotlng tor the Whigs after havin* ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1866
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1481 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TBS LITANIES AND PENANCES OP LIFE

... years without intermission. After this our hero settled in Eastern Tennessee, took to himself a wife; started the Knoxville Whig newspaper; published books and pamphlets on various subjects; discussed religion, polities, and slavery with all comers, and ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1866
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2268 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A GARGUNNOCK STORY OF THE 45

... GARGUNNOCK STORY THE 45. But O! what will the Whigs say syne, Where they're mista'en in that,, When Geordie maun fling by His hat an' wig, an' that. Jacobitism, or a partiality to the Jame9^ hardly known at the time P atronymlC ' d * y8 f the most general ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1502 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE EDINBURGH ANNUITY-TAX

... the city was vehemently to oppose it, the consequence would he that of the Liberal party and large section of the Ministerial Whig party would probably vote with him against the bill, and the whole Tory part would vote against it. If the bill brought in ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1731 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DECLINE OF CONSERVATISM IN SCOTLAND

... tenan ,j but one between landlord and tenanc - iking s hate it, most landlords like if; but tne he Tor much shared by the Whig landlord as identifi eĀ» It is a mistake to suppose that Cunservatw itself necessarily with landlord interests , it3tor s for ...

Published: Thursday 25 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1595 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE EASTERN QUESTION

... will be well for Liberals therefore to watch keenly the proceedings of tbe Foreign Office, whether occupied by Tory or by Whig- That office is absolutely certain to interfere, if only from its traditions, in the Eastern question, and nearly certain to ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1866
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: 6 | Tags: none