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... to th e Conservatives as Tories. It Is mpre correct to call the Conservatives Tories than would to call the Liberals Whigs. The Tory Party wa destroyed just hundred years ago with the Repeal the Corn Laws. To refer to the Conservatives Tories ...
... within a limit of 160 words. What's In A Name? Sir, —With reference to your footnote my letter, in the same analogy why not Whigs (one syllable) for Liberals, Pinks for Socialists, and Reds for Communists ? L. S. T. HALLIDAY. The Cottage, Loddiswell ...
... To many, it is another word for reactionary. To retaliate, as one of your correspondents) suggested, by using the word Whig to denote the poor old Liberal Party (what there left of it) would be unwise, for the simple reason that this word LETTERS ...
... JAS. F. JACKSON. The Nest, Hookhills-road, Good: rington,' Nov. 20. The Tory Party Sir,—The Tory Party, together with the Whigs, died a natural and unregretted death about 1832. , Why is it then that the Liberals, in particular, persist calling Conservatives ...
... him. Has forgotten the origin of the name and to whom it was first applied the Cavaliers—the Loyalists —the true men? The Whigs proclaimed We hope God, but of the Tories it is Written; that Loyalty is still the same whether it win or lose the game. ...
... and Unionist. Movement. Atlantic-terrace, St. Ives, Nov. 24. Tories And Whigs Sir,—The accuracy of Mr. Wm. E. Wynne's remark on the origin of Tory is doubtful. The names Tory and Whig date from 1680. in the reign of Charles 11., and although both titles ...
... a subsequent generation was to sell to a French buyer for a fabulous sum. Thomas Pitt came back to England, and, a staunch Whig, laid the foundations of the family's political history; in fact, the ex-Governor and his three sons were all elected to Parliament ...
... Cherubini. Act 1). 9.25, British Pni otophy And World Sanation. Journeys (Acts 2 3 °4'- ,: St. Thomas Aquinas. The First Whig. Today Programmes i n Page ...
... eminent politician born in 1748 was Dudley Long North (March 14), who was Member for St. Germans, and was one of the most famous Whigs of his generation, although Johnson described him as a man of genteel appearance and that is all. Also born that year was ...