... affirm he is a Tory. I once recollect a little girl saying, on being asked the same ques- tion, that the Tories were nobs, and Whigs were snobs. Doubtless she had h^ard her father, who was a pronounced Tory, use this description. Would the examiner have taken ...

... he abandoned this occupa- tion, and devoted himself to history and politics. Renouncing his previous connection with the Whigs, he attached himself to the victorious Democratic pcrty. In 1838, President Van Buren appointed him Collector of Customs at ...

... of course, those Welsh members of the federation who, by their alliance, give it the semblance of solidity. But as for the Whigs who, unfortunately, mould the federation policy and fetter the volitions of North Wales Radicalism, we protest against their ...

... enthusiasm the Light hadeh a lab0m'0hant' Tbe Coming °' mu.p uaa been sung, thev wo 'AS ad reused the meeting. He said Dn IKD re §T°whig in strength every hour. nn fV,„revi0Us morning, when they started m.m Parade, they did not number hi»fnro w'dch was increased ...

... builfc up the present immense business of Manfield7 and Sons. When Mr Bradlaugh first' came to Northampton, Mr Manfield as ik) Whig opposed him, but in 1880 he was the5, means, by bringing Mr Labouchere to Northamp-; ton, of uniting the Liberals and Radicals ...

... terms leeting, pledges itself to support the JNationalist candidate. Alderman Collerv, and to labour earnestly to defeat the Whig attorney from «Jubhn. who comes to North Sligo on behalf of pledge-breaking and treason to the cause of Ire- He argued that ...

... great cleav- age took place in the Liberal party, consequent on the Irish policy initiated by Mr Gladstone, and when Whig after Whig, in a state of nervous distrust, deserted to the enemy, Lord Granville stood manfully by Mr Gladstone, and never wavered ...

... harp which belonged to Tom Moore, an authentic miniature likeness of Washington, a silver vase presented to Henry Clay by the Whig ladies cf Tennessee, and almost innumerable relics and mementoes of Napoleon, Emperor William, Emperor Maximilian,Emperor ...

... Barry House. During the lifetime of fearjv°jonel, he was on several occasions visited at stat^Jry Lord John Russell, the great Whig her a Colonel Romilly's wife was a lady in the right, her name before marriage being e°rnnio»oOUrable Elizabeth Amelia Jane ...

... Alderman RBES, who took the chair upon Mr Moxey having to leave the meeting, said that Mr Gunn's promises reminded him of the old Whig- ism—they promised everything, but when in office they did nothing. Mr B. G. Evans, Mr Collier, Mr Evan Owen, Mr G. Dobson ...

... l jurisdiction in the county attended the anti-Parnellite convention at which Mr Hammond was chosen the candidate of the whigs. The Irish members in Carlow are almost identi- cally those who have been actively connected in the struggle from the first ...

... Education Act of 1870 was a compromise, but it was not. It was a measure forced through Parliament by an unholy alliance of Whigs and Tories. The advanced Liberal party were simply howled down by political hyenas ready on all occasions to roar in order ...