... phrase is generally ascribed to Mr. Gladstone, but it was taken by Mr. Gladstone from the greatest of all the Whig party at time when the Whig party was great—from that statesman “on whose burning tongue,” as Moore sings, truth, peace, and freedom hung ...

... ts. The concluding words of your resolution, in which you recall the historic denunciation of O’Connell against “Whig baseness” and Whig brutality,” could not be more opportune and appropriate than at moment when the perfidious coercionists of Ireland ...

... by those who know him. He then proceeded as * I do not know whether my liberty is conditional upon the support of the new Whig policy in Ireland or hot (hisses and cheers); but as I have through my political career disregarded all the consequences that ...

... Mangan is as truly and legally mayor of Drogheda at the present moment as he was on the 28th of February last. The Conservative-Whig junto has only succeeded in setting up an anti-mayor in the person of Patrick Reilly, the Milesian. Meanwhile Aiderman Mangan ...

... instead of being Radicals, were i.n many respects more Conservative than the servatives themselves, Some were Whig landowners or the relatives of Whig landowners such as Lord Edward Cavendish, the Fitzwilliams, Mr. Heneage, and the like; while others were ...

... found, his hon. colleague was, where Liberals ought to be—at their leaders’ back. On the 16th of Juno Mr. Heneage proposed Whig amendment which almost defeated the bill. They went into the lobby and won by 25, and amongst their ranks that day—he said ...

... popular rights ; but what material difference could it make to Ireland if instead of those Tories Mr. Forster had Whigs as his subordinates ? Whig secretaries and inspectors and head clerks would, if they were called upon, have done precisely the same kind ...

... effect to our teachings on this head, and with excellent results; but nowhere has the effort to substitute Nationalists for Whigs and Tories beau more strenuously sustained than in the raetropo is, and in no Irish representative body has tae beneficial ...

... y alone might they, in our opinion, hesitate as to their course of action. If by the carrying of the Gibson amendment the Whigs could be put out of office, it might well be question whether such punishment ought not to be inflicted on them, even though ...

... which Davis tells how the patient dint and powder shock can blast an empire like a rook.” Ideas like those do not suit an Irish Whig. But if he—a supporter of English rule in Ireland—did not iiud it convenient to repeat passages that only an Irish nationalist ...

... now that the gag can be applied to all sections of the House the position of the Irishmen is no worse, while the position of Whigs, Tories, Radicals, and members of the Fourth Party is distinctly worse than before. Besides, the Irish are confident that it ...

... used to appear before you was the difference between tweedle dum ana tweedle dee’’—between a positive Whig, comparative Whig, and a superlative Whig—the voters of Mallow might be very 7 well excused lor not interesting themselves very much more about ...