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THE OLD WHIGS

... working men’s families. And those who have constituted the Whig party must choose between the two. It is necessary to decide between policy of destruction and one of development, and the old Whigs are afraid of one and incapable of the other. So they get ...

Published: Monday 31 August 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 724 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR GLADSTONE AND THE WHIGS

... MR GLADSTONE AND THE WHIGS We hear a rumour, founded a substantial basis, that some of tbe leading Constitutional Whigs, they are called, are grievously offended with Mr Gladstone, more especially for his connection with the person known as Finlen. The ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WIGTOWN OR WHIG-TOWN t

... WIGTOWN OR WHIG-TOWN studying Stair’s Institutes lawyer thought he’d rise, Though young, up to the topmost height law—a goodly prise. 11. That point attained—to Parliament To climb he next would dare ; Success is his if only Can find e*sy stair. ...

Published: Monday 31 August 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

t*C SIU«L THE ATTACK ON PEOTBBTAcre Sib. —TUI of Uto I hove boon Whig, and semothing mow. Mjr Proteatantism has

... t*C SIU«L THE ATTACK ON PEOTBBTAcre Sib. —TUI of Uto I hove boon Whig, and semothing mow. Mjr Proteatantism has now, how* ever, got the better both of my Whig and Radical propensities. What would John Knox say, wen to rise from the grave, and see the ...

Published: Thursday 30 April 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1508 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Hcttets to ttit Emtot

... HOLDER. THE HAWICK WHIGS AND THEIE DUPES. Sib, —lt will have been observed that those parties in Hawick who take independent position in politics are becoming anxious to share in the benefits of burgh suffrage, while the old Whigs are still wishful to ...

Published: Friday 01 May 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 830 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

That fennd. he mounts, and looking round

... Stair.” iv. Wigtown Whig-town shall remain. Here safe eneoonced I’ll stay; Nor Radical nor Tory wight Shall drive me hence away. Shall * stupid ’ Tories dare invade This Whig manorial ground ? Let Ditxy play his * game ’ elsewhere. Whig-town is safe and ...

Published: Monday 31 August 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ARGYLLSHIRE

... Russell was Adam Black, Whig of the Whigs., (A laugh.; He did not see that , . r^ much from the Whigs for which they had to thankful for . , , Mr Watson. blacksmith-I admit that. Mr Scott said that the last election the Whigs had a clear majority of ...

Published: Monday 06 January 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2509 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Five ran

... language. So long the Tories allow the Whigs to do nothing, they are at least respectable and honest. If they as the Whigs did, and justify the policy they adopt, there is nothing too bad be said of them. What high Whig authorities would greatly prefer is ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1663 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

represented the national opinions of the whole country; and that was a time iu which the Tory party Iras recognised

... they espoused, were not essentially or any means naturally the results of the principles of the Whig party. He believed the previous historv of the Whig party showed that, instead of being identified with the cause of commercial freedom, which was their ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1040 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR EDINBURGH

... Bill of 1832. The Whigs, I persuaded, would prefer Mr Chambers either to Mr M'Laren or Mr Miller, and so would the Conservatives. His return would, besides, break up the Independent Liberal Committee. Why, therefore, should not the Whigs and Tories act in ...

Published: Friday 30 October 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 963 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TORSION AND COLONIAL MAILS

... seem to have been actuated by the feeling that it was wrong to fete any one who was not a Whig, and who had been opposed to Messrs Gladstone. Bright, and other Whig 3, who hai done everything in their power to throw out the bill, and to prevent it even ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1117 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONSEQUENCES

... CONSEQUENCES. London, Saturday Evening. If be true, as plain-speaking Bernal Osborne alleges, that the Whigs are much given to slumber upon the Treasury beneb, it must be confeoaed that they are singularly wakeful Opposition, Downing Street is to them ...

Published: Monday 27 April 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 657 | Page: 2 | Tags: none