... from the fall of 13olingbruke to the rise of Liverpool there were not half-a-dozen statesmen who can be labelled as distinctly Whig or distinctly Tory in principle. The free and independent elector was the omphalus of the constitution ; but it was understood ...

... century ago, when many Tories in England were quite prepared to believe anything bad, no matter how outrageous, of English Whigs. People may now drift into a similar state of mind and temper with reference to the Irish people. And it will not take much ...