... the Representation of the County of Bedford in Parliament, leaves me in no donbt as to the conrse I should pursue. Trained in Whig traditions, I offer myself as a Representative of the Party of Progress with preser- ‘ vation and not with destruection. | ...

... 'neither a Whig nor a Tory, although uc:n'l&rthe whole ‘of his life was spent in coalition with the Whigs. He had few followers in Parliament, but the great majority of the people were at his back, and, despite the jealousy | of the Whigs and the dislike ...

... is matter for regret, on imy grounds, and suggests considera relative value of a policy of feeble possible reforms, a dozing Whig bling ” Conservatism, with a pol but resolute progression. ‘WHOM SHOULD WE SACRIFICE, RoG MuN ¥—STARVED T 0 DEATH AT CH Never ...

... to let things go backward ? Yet if we followed the course you recommend, and which would doubtless meet the approval of the Whig party, such would be the case. For we have had a Liberal member sitting with Mr. Whitbread who held these Liberationist principles ...

... irregular attendance is the ruin of schools, and that without universal schooling the nation’s power and wealth will leave her. Whig and Tory and the Indifferent Classes have been years learning this, while bad schools have been pampered and ignorance has ...

... awake on being rudely disturbed. The Radical section, if such there be, is apparently dozing under the soothing influence of Whig tactics, which causes them to dream comfortable dreams. The old Tory element, for aught we can observe, is either sound asleep ...

... express.”’ A gentleman, travelling in Texa road a waggon drawn by four oxen, Texan ranger, who, in addition to and crack of the whig, was vociferou horned beasts after this fashion: * Gee, Baptist! Ahoh, Episcopalian ! The traveller was struck and also am ...

... attempt to keep up ;otnndi::s ~army. Asmight onlly be expected, religious and ?oliti strife was exceedingly bitter. The names *“ Whig ” and “Tory were first given a few years before this time, :i\d mr;:nined n; use up to the presentd generation thos ially ...

... the State, may be got rid of in proportion as they are no further wanted.” But it may be answered to this that Brougham was a Whig Chanecellor, and that therefore his ideas are not binding on the clerieal mind. T will, however, take the liberty of quoting ...

... fixed duty on corn. *Cobden and Bright pmgo.wd the only natural course, that of a tatal repeal of the duties on corn. But the Whig country gentlemen were not prepared for so bold a measure. . . . In 1845, domestic affairs having taken me to Edinburgh, I ...

... uuglgn, men in the mfi: uare chapels which dot our principle is that of self-help, and his practice is to | rural districts, and whi:g; are frequently the only place within the reach of every starving man the | centres of that influence for good which is claimed ...

... by such Tories as Bishops Horsley and Ran- | performed their duty to their poverty-stricken brethdolph, such old-fashioned Whigs as Lord Palmerston, l ren, and, notwithstanding the statement of Mr. Peel, m{n extremely moderate Liberals as Lord Brougham ...