For the first time in a century and a half, the whig Party has successfully elected a candidate. |
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Before Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and a staid statesman, he was a whig and a rabble-rouser. |
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No, not the GOP, but the whig Party, the original party of Lincoln. |
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The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn. |
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The second marquess of Rockingham was an important politician, leading the Whig party and supporting independence for the American colonies. |
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Roman classicism had inspired Palladian architecture which was favoured by the Whig ascendancy in Britain. |
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Those of us who confess to a Whig disposition subconsciously cling to the belief that change and progress are transposable concepts. |
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Despite his origins as a Whig and a constitutionalist, he is widely revered as the father of militant Irish republicanism. |
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No Jacobite before 1716, he was driven to Jacobite intrigue by one-party tyranny and Whig Erastianism. |
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Definitions of words like pension, oats, politics, Whig and Tory were coloured by personal prejudice. |
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The dominant Whig Party appealed to Massachusetts, large Congregational church denomination, which had its roots in Puritanism. |
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For a while, the meeting rooms hummed as the unofficial home of the Whig Party. |
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Politicians from the Upper South headed the Whig party and charted a moderate course. |
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You align yourself with Whig historians, happy to see the victory of the Hanoverian regime as a necessary triumph of progress and pragmatism. |
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A high-church Whig, he was appointed bishop of Lincoln in 1716, and in 1723 translated to the see of London. |
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On the political stump, the example of the buckskinned Whig congressman and Tennessee rifleman Davy Crockett was widely imitated. |
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The group grew out of political expediency, as a source of venture capital for Whig entrepreneurs. |
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In 1783, with Tory Prime Minister Shelbourne's government in ruin, George III was appalled at the idea of accepting a Whig as prime minister. |
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The book is not simply a throw-back to a pre-post structuralist Marxist humanism or an unreflecting Whig history however. |
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By deliberately steering between the extremes of prevailing Whig and Tory philosophies he incurred the complaints of both sides. |
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The two families were also frequently selected and elected as political representatives of Federalist and then Whig conservatism. |
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As we have seen, Richardson follows the Whig propagandistic practice of conflating tyranny and absolutism. |
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Lansdowne was a Whig grandee and for decades Bowood in Wiltshire and Lansdowne House in London were headquarters of Whiggism. |
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This is nothing more than an updated version of what was called the Whig interpretation of history. |
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While out of office, he campaigned for further reforms, including vote by ballot, household suffrage, and triennial parliaments, embarrassing the Whig ministers. |
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If Thomas Babington Macaulay gave us the Whig interpretation of history, Victor Davis Hanson has given us the Marvel Comics interpretation, with added Thucydides. |
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There is an evident resemblance between those barons who humiliated King John and the Whig magnates who invited William of Orange to usurp the throne. |
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In the 1690s country Tories attacked the Whig Junto as corrupt. |
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Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales. |
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In that year the Whig candidate was William Henry Harrison, who had become well known after his defeat of the Shawnee at the Battle of Tippecanoe decades earlier. |
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In 1843 Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident of Salisbury, Connecticut, asked the town's board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotly contested local election. |
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The prevalent economism of Whig political theory is obvious in the fact that the protection of property is assigned as the origin of law and the end of government. |
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Thomas Jefferson endured a vicious, partisan press, and Lincoln saw his Whig party splinter into anti-slavery Republicans and popular sovereignty Democrats. |
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The KansasNebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law were very unpopular in Massachusetts, even among many manufacturers who had theretofore supported the Whig Party. |
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It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole. |
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With the collapse of Lord North's ministry in 1782, the Whig Lord Rockingham became Prime Minister for the second time, but died within months. |
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The Whig Government fell in 1832 and Wellesley was unable to form a Tory Government partly because of a run on the Bank of England. |
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Eventually the bill passed the House of Lords after the King threatened to fill that House with newly created Whig peers if it were not. |
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In 1834, William dismissed the Whig Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and appointed a Tory, Sir Robert Peel. |
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He grew up in a family of Whig reformers who, like his uncle Josiah Wedgwood, supported electoral reform and the emancipation of slaves. |
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Throughout the early 1680s the Whig element in Parliament attempted to remove James as successor to the throne. |
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In the early 18th century the style was associated with Toryism, the Continent and Popery by the dominant Whig aristocracy. |
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His paintings were praised by Whig luminaries such as John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Alexander Pope. |
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That debate preoccupied politics in the 1670s and 1680s and precipitated the formation of the Whig party and the Glorious Revolution. |
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Shaftesbury, as a founder of the Whig movement, exerted great influence on Locke's political ideas. |
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In the Reflections, Burke argued against Price's interpretation of the Glorious Revolution and instead, gave a classic Whig defence of it. |
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Fellow Whig MPs Richard Sheridan and Charles James Fox, disagreed with Burke and split with him. |
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Burke knew that many members of the Whig Party did not share Fox's views and he wanted to provoke them into condemning the French Revolution. |
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Although Whig grandees such as Portland and Fitzwilliam privately agreed with Burke's Appeal, they wished he had used more moderate language. |
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Burke, as a Whig, did not wish to see an absolute monarchy again in France after the extirpation of Jacobinism. |
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By 1807, he formed a friendship with John Cam Hobhouse who initiated him into the Cambridge Whig Club, which endorsed liberal politics. |
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On 1 July 1823 George Agar Ellis, a Whig politician, proposed to the House of Commons that it purchase the collection. |
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Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots. |
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He was a Whig from the gentry class, who was first elected to Parliament in 1701, and held many senior positions. |
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While in the Tower he was regarded as a political martyr, and visited by all the Whig leaders. |
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Thus, Walpole lost a considerable element of his Whig Party to the Opposition. |
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In the 1750 to 1850 era, Whig aristocrats in England boasted of their special benevolence for the common people. |
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Scott was also a contributor to the Edinburgh Review, which espoused Whig views. |
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The youthful Waverley obtains a commission in the Whig army and is posted in Dundee. |
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He escapes retribution, however, after saving the life of a Whig colonel during the battle. |
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As the expensive War of the Spanish Succession grew unpopular, so did the Whig administration. |
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Lord Lansdowne, in the absence of any alternative, remained the leading figure in the Whig opposition. |
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The Liberal Party was formally founded in 1859, replacing the Whig Party as one of the two leading parties. |
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Barry remained a lifelong supporter of the Liberal Party, the successor to the Whig Party. |
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The Transportation Act was introduced into the House of Commons in 1717 under the Whig government. |
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In politics he showed himself a Whig, and engaged in a bitter quarrel with the Rev. |
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About the same time, she published four stories expressing support of the Whig Poor Law reforms. |
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The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers. |
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With his Whiggism went an admiration for the Whig aristocratic ideal, with whose embodiments he now became closely engaged. |
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The new Whig administration accepted American independence as a basis for peace. |
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The Whig party won almost all constituencies with genuine electorates, leaving the Tories with little more than the rotten boroughs. |
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Palmerston was deemed essential to any Whig ministry, and he would not join any he did not head. |
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He did not defeat the incumbent Whig member, Henry Labouchere, but the Taunton constituency was regarded as unwinnable by the Tories. |
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The Tories remained split and the Queen sent for Lord John Russell, the Whig leader. |
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The new House of Commons had more Conservative than Whig members, but the depth of the Tory schism enabled Russell to continue to govern. |
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Endymion, despite having a Whig as hero, is a last exposition of the author's economic policies and political beliefs. |
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Fourth, recognising that political parties were the source of ministerial strength, he led the Whig party and maintained discipline. |
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In the Commons, he insisted on the support of all Whig members, especially those who held office. |
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In 1826, Broughton, a Whig, announced in the Commons that he opposed the report of a Bill. |
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Using his Whig victory as a mandate for reform, Grey was unrelenting in the pursuit of this goal, using every Parliamentary device to achieve it. |
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Peel was forced to resign as prime minister on 29 June, and the Whig leader, Lord John Russell, assumed the seals of office. |
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Charles' position in Scotland began to deteriorate as the Scottish Whig supporters rallied and regained control of Edinburgh. |
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The Whig opposition gained traction in Parliament, though a motion proposed on December 12 to end the war was defeated by only one vote. |
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Following the surrender at Yorktown, the Whig party came to power in Britain and began opening negotiations for a cessation of hostilities. |
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At university Gladstone was a Tory and denounced Whig proposals for parliamentary reform. |
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His efforts to induce the Whig government to assist in this effort were unsuccessful. |
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At the time of her accession, the government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne. |
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This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history. |
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In general, Whig historians emphasized the rise of constitutional government, personal freedoms and scientific progress. |
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The idea that humans are essentially good is often attributed to the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, a Whig supporter of constitutional monarchy. |
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However, it may have had the effect of keeping the Whig party, which had won the 1715 general election, in power for a longer time. |
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The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory. |
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The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. |
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Gradually political power shifted away from the old Tory and Whig landowning classes towards the new industrialists. |
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According to the Whig interpretation of history, the Glorious Revolution was an example of the reclaiming of ancient liberties. |
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Initially, the Whig interpretation of Magna Carta and its role in constitutional history remained dominant during the 19th century. |
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In the early decades of the 20th century the Whig school was the dominant theoretical view. |
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This arrangement changed during the reign of George III, who hoped to restore his own power by freeing himself from the great Whig magnates. |
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Thus, George promoted his old tutor, Lord Bute, to power and broke with the old Whig leadership surrounding the Duke of Newcastle. |
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The colours of the Whig party were particularly associated with Charles James Fox. |
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The House of Commons, with a Whig majority, quickly resolved that the throne was vacant, and that it was safer if the ruler was Protestant. |
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The Whig government was responsible for the creation of the Bank of England following the example of the Bank of Amsterdam. |
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When passing a Whig club, the coach came under attack from a group of men who tried to assault Pitt. |
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In May 1762, the incumbent Whig government of the Duke of Newcastle was replaced with one led by the Scottish Tory Lord Bute. |
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The Whig Party was represented by 486 pet names, while the Federalist Party came in with just one name. |
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Two days later, Earl Grey was asked to form a Whig government. |
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Their London home, Holland House, was the centre of the Whig Party. |
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Between 1821 and 1830 the Whig Commons leadership was left vacant. |
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However, there was little doubt that if a Whig ministry was possible, Grey rather than the less distinguished Commons leaders would have been invited to form that government. |
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Eventually they jointly recommended George Ponsonby to the Whig MPs, whom they accepted as the first Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. |
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The Whig Lord John Russell brought forward one such measure in 1820, proposing the disfranchisement of the notoriously corrupt borough of Grampound in Cornwall. |
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The result was that, although Lord North's Tory government usually had a Parliamentary majority, a large Whig minority opposed it and constantly criticized its policies. |
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Many of the highlanders went home with booty from the battle and recruiting resumed, though Whig clans opposing the Jacobites were also getting organised. |
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The crisis had significantly damaged the credibility of the King and of the Whig Party, but Walpole defended both with skilful oratory in the House of Commons. |
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After having been singled out in a struggle between the Whigs and the government, Walpole became the intermediary for reconciling the government to the Whig leaders. |
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Like his father, Robert Walpole was a member of the Whig Party. |
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Walpole and his Whig Party were dominant in politics, as the king feared that the Tories would not support the succession laid down in the Act of Settlement. |
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He also made friends with Whig writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. |
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Other Whigs such as the Duke of Portland and Earl Fitzwilliam privately agreed with Burke, but did not wish for a public breach with their Whig colleagues. |
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He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry. |
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As a result, William began to prefer the Whig faction known as the Junto. |
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From that moment I put in my claim for a monopoly of Whig principles. |
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After the advent of the Prime Ministerial system under the Whig Robert Walpole, Lord Bute's premiership in the reign of George III marked a revival. |
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Tories generally advocate monarchism, are usually of a high church Anglican religious heritage, and are opposed to the liberalism of the Whig faction. |
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The House of Lords, therefore, at this moment represents everything in the realm except the Whig oligarchs, their tools the Dissenters, and their masters the Irish priests. |
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Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were executed or forced into exile. |
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Revered by high Tories who considered him a saintly martyr, he was condemned by Whig historians, such as Samuel Rawson Gardiner, who thought him duplicitous and delusional. |
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The Whig historians of a later age preferred constitutional reform to foreign conquest and discredited Edward for ignoring his responsibilities to his own nation. |
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Admired in his own time and for centuries after, Edward was denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by later Whig historians such as William Stubbs. |
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The Whig Party split and collapsed on the slavery issue, to be replaced in the North by the new Republican Party, which was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. |
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Russell's ministry, though Whig, was not favoured by the Queen. |
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John Tyler was expelled from the Whig Party in September 1841, and remained effectively an independent for the remainder of his presidency, later returning to the Democrats. |
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The Whig Sir Charles Wood and the Tory Disraeli had both been perceived to have failed in the office and so this provided Gladstone with a great political opportunity. |
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In 1711, Swift published the political pamphlet The Conduct of the Allies, attacking the Whig government for its inability to end the prolonged war with France. |
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The 'Swing' riots were a major influence on the Whig Government. |
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