... Catholics at present abstain from politics because their consciences will not allow them to unreservedly adopt the principles of Whig or Tory, Conservative or Radical, and because reserved support of the principles of any of these parties means mediocrity and ...

... some exception to Mr. Justice Fitzgerald's political bias, gives the following favourable estimate of his judicial eminence: A Whig in politics, he regarded the stronger phases of popular agitation with disfavour, and the rhetoric of his charges from the ...