... defence of Irish interests, every Irish Whig gentleman in the house and a large number of solid English Whigs too (hear, hear). Again, when the a ff air about Mazzini occur red, the Irish members who belong to the Whig party voted very generally against the ...

... not because you may support. either Whig or Tory Government. but because we believe you to be an honest Irishman. We firmly trust the men of noble Wexford will support you, proving to all Ireland that it is neither Whig nor Tory they want, but a sterling ...

... time and labor to Parliamentary business. This is so especially now, when the Country has been rendered prostrate by years of Whig misgovernment. To save the remnant of the Irish race, to heal deplorable and dangerous dissentious, to preserve the people ...

... I prefer men of this character, to the mere Whig or Tory. I think it is time to lay aside the delusion, that the Whig is a greater friend of Ireland than the Tory, or that the Tory is better than the Whig. Such old-fashioned ideas ought to be left to ...

... religious and local feeling (loud cheers). I must do justice to the Whigs of the past generation. In the days of O'Connell the Whigs would not venture te do this. But the modern Whigs are, to use their own phrase, more enlightened and progressive ; they ...

... ; and the Whigs immediately put on the income tax upon the agricultural, professional, and mercantile classes, in abort upon every man Ireland from whom they could wring any revenue. The Cottservatire tenant-right bill is gone, but the Whig income tax ...

... friends, our petted Liberals, forsooth—that we have an undying spirit of liberty still clinging around us, which will repel Whig or Tory, Radical or Conservative, who dare cajole us with their promises or insult us with false and hollow professions. As ...

... government of this country had been entrusted to the hands of the Whigs, and, consequently, all the grievances under which she labours are directly chargeable to Whig misrule. [A voice— The Whigs are nice boys]. Under the plea of supporting religion, they ...

... defy the efforts of those who would make us a stepping-atone to power for a Whig administration. In the name of common tense, what favour has Ireland ever received from the Whigs that we should seek to plane them in the authority they so long disgraced ...

... electioneering tactics, for which the Whip are so famous Mr. Pope Hennessy's candidature in this county, and the anxiety of the Whigs to bring forward a man, explains the matter. Mr. Bright was primed for the occasion, and fired his ill-intentioned, though ...

... parliament is not necessarily forced to take refuge in the extent amongst the scum of the population of Liverpool, ranks of the Whig Liberals, the most insidious enemies of in foil haunts of kesiiality t where life is sacrificed merely Ireland and her religion ...

... of this country, Tories, Radicals and Whigs. But of the three we consider the false and deceitful Whigs the most contemptible and worthless. The Radicals may do us some service once in half a century, but the Whigs never. The Tories are often harsh, and ...