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... party, and are often in very bad taste and spirit. This is how one of them begins:— It's but mere illusion For a man to be a Whig. Their great mass confusion Would any brain fatigue ; They're rugged appearance, They slight all scripture clearance. With ...
... that way, will shrink from it. Lord Melbourne took the latter mode. 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 for surrendering a town to the enemy when ...
... would hardly condescend to argue the question seriously with the opponents secret voting. The notion prevailed that Tories and Whigs were afraid to trust the electors to vote according to conscience, and that the influence of property —to wit, intimidation ...
... bal He said the question to be considered that was not so much what sort of Reform Bill the country e have, either from the Whigs or the Tories, but whether progress which had been made in the past should tinued in the future, and whether the industry and ...
... behaviour, to overlook Sir E. Dering vote the night which decided the fate of the la«t Reform Bill To bring back the wavering Whig families to their allegiance Gladstone and Russell, the former has also taken occasion express more moderate views about Reform ...
... on revision at Devonport seems have terminated in a “Conservative triumph.” Of 221 Whigs objected to by Conservatives were struck off ; Conservatives objected to Whigs none were struck off. The Conservative gain in Devonport was 142, and Stonehouse 10 ...
... great many of those men which they call Trimmers. Whig is but a mere fool these : for a Whig is some sort a subject in oomparUon of ; for a Trimmer but a cowardly and base-spirited Whig ; for the Whig is but the Journeymen- Prentice, that hired and set ...
... regret nothing more than that they should produce and carry a good measure. For that would militate against the interests of his Whig clients. His primary object above all others to bring them back to Downing atreet, and he is using all the arts of the slump ...