Whig in a sentence

All of the Whig leaders attacked this on traditional Whig anti-French and protectionist grounds.

Burke wanted to demonstrate his fidelity to Whig principles and feared that acquiescence to Fox and his followers would allow the Whig Party to become a vehicle for Jacobinism.

From the early 1830s, Lincoln was a steadfast Whig and professed to friends in 1861 to be "an old line Whig, a disciple of Henry Clay".

Meanwhile, the Whig Party broke up, and this element of the Whig program was taken up by the new Republican Party, which ran its first national ticket in 1856.

O'Gorman, p. 75. Burke was dismayed that some Whigs, instead of reaffirming the principles of the Whig Party he laid out in the Reflections, had rejected them in favour of "French principles" and that they criticised Burke for abandoning Whig principles.

Taylor would also die in office, only serving for little more than a year, and his successor Millard Fillmore destroyed the Whig image and the Whig Party dissolved after the election of 1852.

Tyler vetoed the Whig economic legislation and was expelled from the Whig party in September 1841.

Whigs voted 27-1 against the treaty: all northern Whig Senators voted nay, and fourteen of fifteen southern Whig Senators had joined them.

To paraphrase the 19th-century Whig MP and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay: There is no spectacle more ridiculous as the British political class in one of its periodic fits of morality.

It had been gifted in the mid-18th century to Horace Walpole, the writer, aesthete and Whig politician, who designed his own gothic home, Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, south-west London.

I thought you were merely an opinionated Whig with a presumptuous dislike of slavery and trade.

They wanted to know if it would be possible to GPS map those vestigial segments of the ancient roadbed from Earle’s Ford to Ninety-Six, a major crossroad in the Cherokee Path and the scene of two significant battles between Tory and Whig factions.

Mrs. Thomas Mellor and Mrs. Owen Jones Wister (daughter of the famously beautiful Fanny Kemble and mother of the author Owen Wister) donated reading material for the wounded soldiers, including 48 copies of the American Whig Review.

He told the Whig-Standard at the time that it would receive a notification and an invitation to the open house, but no such invitation was received.

Lee told the Kingston Whig-Standard he will plead not guilty to the charges and that it was all a misunderstanding.

Accordingly, each of these groups suddenly forgot their differences with the Whig Party and voted with the Whigs against the proposed budget.

Acting on the Prince's authority, the Whig leader Charles James Fox declared that the story was a calumny. citation Fitzherbert was not pleased with the public denial of the marriage in such vehement terms and contemplated severing her ties to the Prince.

After he vetoed the Whig domestic legislative agenda, he was expelled from his own party on September 13, 1841.

After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said "Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory..

After the National Republicans collapsed, the Whig Party and the Free Soil Party quickly formed and collapsed.