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MR RUE AND THE WHIGS

... with the Whigs, another attached to them for the purpose effecting so.ne pr.vate object, aud the third, who advocate the liyawure* Utey proper for the public interest, without any attention to the pleasure displeasure of Lord John and the Whig party. This ...

Published: Wednesday 27 October 1852
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 862 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE DEBILITATED WHIG CABINET

... THE DEBILITATED WHIG CABINET. The dose the present Session Parliament will find tho Whig Cabinet sorely crippled power and shattered in reputation. Its constitution that of a weak, worn-out, and attenuated invalid—one well, and showing signs of retaining ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1850
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1051 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WHIG MINISTRY. ( To the Editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard.) Siz,—Last night, the “do nae better” ..

... THE WHIG MINISTRY. ( To the Editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard.) Siz,—Last night, the “do nae better” ministry would again their bill unfold, and make a fresh onslaught on the red hose of the eminent W ise-man. In my humble opinion, the best ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1851
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 579 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

best men chosen fiom Ihe representatives ot the (llfi‘m_‘ent wards, without avy question whatever whether they ..

... best men chosen fiom Ihe representatives ot the (llfi‘m_‘ent wards, without avy question whatever whether they were Tories, or Whigs, or Radicals. (Applause.) ~ The financial condition of the Burgh required the serious attention of the whole of the wards, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1877
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1635 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

lain and the Whigs be’ onged to it; their leaving it has ‘eft more homogeneous, and with fewer people tugging

... lain and the Whigs be’ onged to it; their leaving it has ‘eft more homogeneous, and with fewer people tugging from behind. That *, ait, But in 1885, before the Tory part’ .'s diversity was increased by the Whigs and Chamberlain Radicals, this is “gow ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1891
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1224 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

many Whig members of the Liberal party. Some of the Tory organs affected to see in this statement the seeds

... many Whig members of the Liberal party. Some of the Tory organs affected to see in this statement the seeds of a disagreement that might some day soon develop into a Cabinet crisis—to be solved by the resignation of the War Minister, if not by a much ...

Published: Wednesday 05 December 1883
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1215 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Contemporary Opinions

... it was most dangerous to be a Whig—when to be too zealous a Whig, unless one were powerfully connected, meant to run a risk of trial for sedition—there had not been a more daring Whig than the poet Burns. True was a Whig, as he was everything else, after ...

Published: Wednesday 15 October 1856
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1424 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE EDINBURGH ELECTION

... Scottish capital sink into the condition of Whig nomination burgh Why should the constituency of Edinburgh accept the merest partisans or officials of Whig Government? When Sir John Campbell, 'plain John,' the Whig Attorney-general, was rejected small English ...

Published: Wednesday 13 February 1856
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 781 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SIR ANDREW AGNEW AT STRANRAER

... representative. I may well asked here and in this country what the Whigs are, because sometimes in talking of Whig and Tory no very definite meaning is attached to these words. The Whigs arc that party who struggled bard, as a great many of you know, p ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1865
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1948 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LETTER FROM LONDON

... denouncing the Whigs with his old fire. He gave the simple agriculturists most inflated description of the achievements the present Government ; and, to heighten the effect, of course misrepresented the defects and failings of the Whigs. He said the Queen ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1858
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1326 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

KDLNBI'RGH LETTER

... declan ition, and retort. As has been observed, the Whig Government had then began to wane in pablic estimation, and was in a moribund condition. With the intention of reviving its sinking fortunes, the Whig leaders in Edinburgh held frequent meetings to animate ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1875
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 923 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO

... will contain twenty-one Whigs and thirty-five Loco Focos two members being doubtful. the house seventy-four Whigs and fifty-nine Loco Focos have already been chosen ; last year the same states were represented by forty-nine Whigs and seventy-six Loco Focos ...

Published: Wednesday 09 December 1846
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 789 | Page: 2 | Tags: none