... parties, had very often the effect of irritating both, and not reclaiming either; whilst the rccoil of such a system on the Whig Cabinet, itself was sufficient to break it into fragments, and maim the more liberal portion of it in efficiency and power ...

... not surprised if there were some senators who even suspected Mr. Buchanan of playing the democrats trick. Mr. Buchanan is a whig; and the language which he addressed to Mr. Pakenham is so unlike Mr. Buchanan, and so very like Mr. Polk, that it is evident ...

... in the present dispute ? Half the Whigs have voted with Polk on this very motion for notice. Hearthe language of Quincy Adams. Mark the silence of Webster and of Clay. The Whig journals indeed do their duty; but the Whig statesmen do not. And they are this ...

... they come to displace and dispossess and annihilate the Whigs, they say— a truce with party : a species of impudence never excelled even by that perfection of it, the stage Irishman. The Whigs have received this invasion toppling down upon them with ...

... in hazard, may where better motives are wanting—keep men true to the faith they have once professed. The united Leaguers, Whigs, and Peelites in the House of Commons, will stand true to Peel's new bills if the means can only be found to make them postpone ...

... after the election followed the recall of Peel from Rome at nflwd speed, summoned by a Hudson, how his lordship overwhelmed the Whig Lords by his protection. With a like benevolence he now gathera the unfortunate government beneath the umbrageous shelter of ...

... similar bill. So that all the concessions which Irish members thought fit to make in return for the conciliatory policy of the Whigs, the Tories would now preclude them from ever reclaiming. The power which you consented to give Lord Normaxby, I insist on ...

... policy but of moral justice. By that memorable declaration, monopoly became incapable of political existence. It is neither Whig, Tory, nor Radical, Liberal nor Conservative. It is simply sordid class interest, renounced by all statesmanship, and shut ...

... would not be in the han of any legislature, but their own. He called upon them, then, not to give vote to any man, let him be Whig or Tory, Free Trader or Protectionist, Conservative or Radical, who would not give a distinct pledge to vote against every ...

... Disraeli. In answer to the reproach of having deceived the Protectionists up to the last hour, he observes that one of the Whig leaders had two years ago found him out to be a free-trader in his heart; and, moreover, that the Agricultural Society had ...

... directly exercised by the people. Their lordships overstep the line that parts representation from pure democracy. They are (Whigs, and something more. They tread hard upon the heels of Chartism. The conversion is yet more marvellous than that of Sir Robert ...

... the slave-traders, is as irresistible over Congress as over Mexico; and nothing seems left for the North-Easterns and the Whigs, save the alternative either going mad with Quixcy Adams, or withdrawing altogether from public life. ...