... HENRY REEVE IN the person of the late Mr. Henry Reeve has disappeared one of the very last of the actual and, avowed Whigs. Old Whigs no doubt still are extant as are old Tories here and there, and that in distinguished places, but for all purposes of ...

... straitest sect of Whigs in the days when Whig principles were distinctly at a discount, sent to a private school kept by a Whig pedagogue who educated little Whig aristocrats and gave them a holiday when any political event propitious to ...

... Tory and Whig is clearly marked. It is not necessary to dwell upon the Revolution. At its best (the Tory best) it was a necessary evil; at its worst (the Whig worst) it was a political infamy. The Revolution settlement was manipulated by Whigs to embody ...

... finally broken. The people were again free to have a share in the government of the country without the interposition of a Whig oligarchy. The king's prerogative had been vindicated; no longer the puppet of a faction, he became the Sovereign of his people ...

... Assent. The other was Parliamentary reform. It has been asserted by Whig historians that because Pitt favoured these reforms he was a Whig at heart. This state of mind was peculiar to Whigs in the past, just as it is peculiar to the Radicals to-day. They ...

... signified so much by almost universal acclamation and addresses; all expressing the utmost detestation and abhorrence of the Whig principles.' * • same Roger North was one of the stoutest Tories of the reign of Charles IL, and the ablest exponent of Tory ...

... him and helped that d—d Anti crew to kill him, and you've sold the country to the Whigs, and whatever ye say or pretend, the most of ye, Home Rule you don't want, only Whig laws and Ireland down and yourselves snug. But I promise you you'll have to face ...

... that the terms Whig and or whether on the other hand public opinion (to its ever- Tory were first struck out. The conduct of the Tories on lasting honour) and the American press are things this occasion has been sharply censured by Whig historians altogether ...

... to the faction created by Mr. Gladstone in 1886, and half destroyed by him since, it is the Whigs and not the Radicals. The ex-( ladstonians have several Whig qualities, the passion for place and title, the smug self-complacency, the artistic eye for ...

... promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some political principle in which they are all agreed; and the Whigs of queen Anne's reign, who laid the foundations of this system in our Constitution, believed that the only proper method of ...

... A TARDY LAMENT THE MACGREGOR I ! he's gane ! he's frac torn, 'I est cer Is as born, .Nlourn, Caledonia! mourn, Whigs an' a'! lacgregor's left the lions' forlorn, Rob Roy's ava' ! Ve bockies by the braes 0' Ness, When ye obsairve the Tory press Sae fits ...

... certain hoary fictions about Toryism invented by Whig historians, which are maintained and even aggravated in the present day by the party which has inherited the vices, if not the virtues, of Whiggism. The Whig historians created a caricature which they called ...