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...11?Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's graduation and the 160th anniversary of the American Whig Society at Princeton University...
...kind in the United Kingdom. Punster Sydney Smith, its first editor, aimed "to erect a higher standard of merit, and secure a bolder and a purer taste in literature, and to apply philosophical principles and the maxims of truth and humanity to politics." The Review was originally Whig; its cover, buff and blue, always proclaimed its old faith...
...exact origin of the Republican party few historians agree. When the Whigs held their national convention in New York City in 1852, the sidewalks buzzed with popular talk of a new party. Editor Horace Greeley of the Tribune seriously pondered the future with his friend Alvan Earle Bovay, Ripon Whig. The stiff, dignified, stoop-shouldered lawyer from Wisconsin insisted a new party be formed on the slavery issue, suggested to Editor Greeley the name Republican. On March 20, 1854 when the Nebraska-Kansas Bill was pending in the Senate, Lawyer Bovay called a meeting of 58 persons at Ripon...
...which represented landed interests) he had opposed Free Trade, opposition to which was exemplified in the famous Corn Laws. But with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm, scintillating wit, and considerable treachery, Disraeli immortally flayed his chief as "a great parliamentary middleman . . . who bamboozles one party and plunders the other," and reviled him for having caught the Whigs...
...John Tyler, who had, of course, nothing to do with the case. Your comment shows that you have not kept up with the historical advance, for scholars are now agreed that the Bank was never an issue in 1840 and that Tyler was not a Democrat adopted by the Whigs but that he had as good a standing in the Whig party as any other man - the Whig party being a composite party. Moreover, Tyler's efforts for peace in 1861 exclude the idea that he had any "embitterment" against the government on account of any party quarrel...