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... associations with drill-sergeants and things military. It wouldcertainly have shocked Brougham and the mildlyrevolutionary Whigs of the early thirties, who waxed wrathfully eloquent at the bare mention of the possibility of the applica- tion to England ...
... rally were allowed to run their six or 1 seven years' leaso of life. Things went ratlier sleepily in those days of the E great Whig oligarchy, and at the General 1 I Election of 1754, for instance, only forty-two I [ English seats were contested. Those also ...
... on of circumstances be- ! come obsolete and unmeaning labels. Coin-; pare, say, a Liberal of to-day with the tradi- tional Whig of 60 or 70 years ago, such as Lord Grey or Lord Melbourne. Compare the; so-called Conservative of to-day with the I full-blooded ...
... taking his stand on the old and ?? dear Whig doctrines of the rights of the r, governed, ha could orge tberm to nsake terms 2- even with rebels. The Conciliation Commnittees t are the inheritors in this of the true Whig it traditions.-tnaditions which since ...
... control their destinies by t m- means of the franchise, yet the object which the . ae Libdral party-he was speaking now~ of the Whig 'a section-bad in institnting these r eforms was to t counteract the influence of the old landded Y- aristocracy, and to secure ...
... Unionist cause with all its members. A c-rresponding advance had been made in the rest of Scotland. It was not an affair of Whig and Torvr. It was sheer nonsense to talk of the Unionists as Tories. That was a word used by the enemy to throw a stone at ...
... the friends of temper- ance to remember that their cause was far bigger and more important than the mere difference between Whig or Tory. It was a national, if not international, question they had in hand. Touching on Mr Souttar's bill, he said the Royal ...
... POLITICAL SAYiNS3 AND DDIN§S. 7e A very distinguished member of s, the Liberal party, himself a scion of an old 1s North country Whig house, who has hitherto - been identified with the Hoome rule notion, Y generally familiar, informs ine that the attitude of ...
... 1823. He received an aca- demic educatim, studied law, and began its 1 practice in 1844. Ile vas a delegate to the N National Whig Conventions of 1848 and 1852, and a member of Conress from 1855 to l^61. He entered the Republican party soon after its fcrrnation ...
... LIof. his contemplation anty budding Liberal poli- .tician uhno dii nut enjoy the cachet of relation- .ship Nvitli a great Whig house. Towards the - end of his career the grea~t Liberal chief was obliged to exercise a great deal more of compre. hension ...
... these Socialists'would come round to think with the Unionists and say, in the slightly altered words of the old song:- Awa. Whigs. awa; - Yetwe but a pack of ?? leons, Yell dae nae guid ava. REPRESENTATION UF EAST FIFE. Candidature of Mr Constable. Mr ...
... Smith~ in the chair. Dealing with the vxar settle- b menit, Mr Duindas said that apace from what he d might call the usual Whig- and Tory election p I.questions. the main question before, the electors Is so-as svhich party would they retown to power. ...