| 单词 | Whig |
| 例句 | I see no reason why they should pretend to ignore his existence, even though any discussion of him is liable to be dismissed as Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1931 he had published The Whig Interpretation of History, which attacked historians who wrote as if English history led naturally and inevitably to the triumph of liberal values. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The neat divisions between Whigs and Tories did not accord with the Adams sense of the political landscape during the 1770s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It had caused comment that so many leading Whigs had been seen ever and anon converging upon the Observer’s office. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The British soldiers at the Neck were asking more and more questions of any known Whig, and sometimes, for a whim, would refuse to let him pass and often again delay the trip. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The divisions of the 1790s did not match up with Jefferson's categories, either, since those supporting and those opposing a more powerful national government had all been good Whigs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Way back in 1931 when Butterfield attacked Whig history his target was the view that history had a purpose and a goal, which was to produce our values, our institutions, our culture. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Three times already the Whigs had tarred and feathered enemies and carted them through the streets of Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Whigs declaring that taxation without representation is tyranny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, I trust, those conventions will be every bit as mysterious as the ones that governed the writing of Whig political history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Here their relativism breaks down and they offer us their own version of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Let us now turn to an example of Whig history as that term is generally understood. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But later historians have naturally turned the phrase ‘Whig history’ back against Butterfield himself, accusing him of taking for granted the superiority of modern science over all that went before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Certainly all the other members of the Observers, if ever their names were known, would follow, and so would all the Whig printers of Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes this manoeuvre can be justified; but often it gives rise to a new sort of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many of the leading Whigs dined daily at the Queen, and one man after another stopped at their table to laugh over Merchant Lyte’s public discomfiture that morning in court. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The subscriptions had dropped, partly because many people could not afford a paper, and partly because so many Whig families were leaving Boston for the country. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If this were true then it would become extremely difficult to see how historians could avoid writing Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Canaan, where now we lodged, was full of Whigs and rebels. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The very idea of a book about ‘origins’ seems to them contrary to the principles he established in The Whig Interpretation of History. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He let Johnny have his rig and also wrote him a pass which would prevent any molestation from the Whig mobs and told Cilia to get a similar pass from the British soldiers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yummy, but could I have mine tonight? Got to get back to Robert Peel and the Enlightened Whigs. Anyway, Thing has ruined my appetite.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In only a few weeks he changed from knowing little enough about the political excitement, and caring less, to being an ardent Whig. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Such is the fear of being accused of writing Whig or teleological history that it is difficult to find an historian making simple and elementary points of this sort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1859 The Richmond Whig said: “The miserable old traitor and murderer belongs to the gallows and the gallows will have its own.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She married a great Whig politician, and was a famous London beauty for many years, but this portrait was painted before that, when she was still unmarried. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Given that this book relies in part on hindsight, many historians will feel justified in condemning it as an example of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That anything they discovered of British plans should be told only to the four men who were looked upon as the leaders of the Boston Whigs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The simple truth is that the definition of Whig history has got tighter and tighter year by year. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Whigs return to Metro for two more concerts Friday and Saturday. Afghan Whigs revive combustible chemistry 2012-10-24T03:57:00Z As anyone who’s seen the Afghan Whigs in recent years will testify, this ever-present studio ferocity comes directly from the band’s stunning live shows. The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on keeping it “fun” after death of a beloved bandmate and 30 years of touring 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z To honor his memory, the Afghan Whigs recently recorded and released a cover of a song called “You Want Love” originally recorded by a band called the Pleasure Club. The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on keeping it “fun” after death of a beloved bandmate and 30 years of touring 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z The 18th-century member of Parliament, who was a Whig, was one of the first to decry the revolt as the dangerous work of a swinish multitude. Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z So "Whig" historians insisted on the supposedly ideal development of Britain's democratic institutions, while their American counterparts celebrated their nation's unique history of freedom. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z When the Whigs broke apart in the 1850s, many members joined a new, anti-slavery party called the Republicans. In a presidential election, it’s almost always about two parties 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Academic historians like to call a certain optimistic type of approach “Whig history.” Assaults and Occupations in Wartime 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Disraeli combatted this novel political force – the Liberal party was not a natural evolution from the old aristocratic Whig faction – with the potent ideas of a socially compassionate Conservatism and a great British empire. Cameron and Clegg: the improbable coalition 2010-05-12T15:22:00Z Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs was the man with the shortest hair in grunge and has always made really dramatic and romantic American hard rock. This week's new singles 2011-08-12T23:07:56Z The Whig party was closer to a hotchpotch of self-interested and discordant MPs. Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “The Whig Club” is basically a scandal sheet in volume form about the Whigs—i.e., liberal aristocrats—of the period and what they got up to. “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z It's the story of an ambitious and talented historian, who wrote the well-known Whig Interpretation of History, but never produced the magnum opus everyone had been waiting for. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z For Whigs, the way forward was to offer reform, just enough to detach the middle classes from their alliance with working-class reformers and so hopefully to prevent an explosion. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z Here are a few highlights from my past week in Austin: Best Surprise: The Afghan Whigs put on an amazing show. SXSW 2013: Recapping the Music Festival 2013-03-18T14:58:24Z When parties split up, as the Whigs did in the 1850s, over slavery, we got the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln, our greatest leader. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The Afghan Whigs, on the other hand, sported crisp suits, short hair and a sound built on rhythmic thrust. Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli: “Writing songs is the greatest gift I could give myself” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Yet as Shenton emphasises, the Whig government then in power had brought in many of the overdue reforms. The Day Parliament Burned Down by Caroline Shenton – review 2012-10-05T21:55:06Z In the Afghan Whigs, all sides of his personality were given room to shine, backed by a band with a robust 1970s-informed sense of churn. The Week Ahead: May 20 ? 26 2012-05-20T08:00:06Z But it’s instructive to look at how the Whigs split into Republicans and Know-Nothings. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z And it was left to the Afghan Whigs' raucous but soulfully swooning anthems to bring a balmy weekend of extremes to a satisfyingly emotional conclusion. I'll Be Your Mirror – review 2012-05-28T11:48:02Z “I’ll get the car, you get the match and gasoline,” he instructs a lover on the Whigs’ “Going to Town,” promising great conflagration. Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli: “Writing songs is the greatest gift I could give myself” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z He made two records with the band Satchel, and appeared on The Afghan Whigs’ album “Black Love,” as well as Whigs founder Greg Dulli’s solo album. Soulful Seattle singer Shawn Smith dead at 53 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Three decades after forming, Afghan Whigs remain vital for its willingness to ignore boundaries. Afghan Whigs: ’90s Alternative Rockers, With Strings and Horns 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z I think there is a bunch of speeds in the car that is the Afghan Whigs.” Afghan Whigs revive combustible chemistry 2012-10-24T03:57:00Z His unlikely aide gave him a reading list and taught him Disraeli’s idea that a sound conservative government can be “Tory men with Whig measures”. The odd couple 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The Whigs played about 1,500 shows, Dulli estimates, and broke up countless times before finally pulling the plug in 2001. Afghan Whigs revive combustible chemistry 2012-10-24T03:57:00Z I saw the performance the Afghan Whigs did at the Apollo Theatre, where you prefaced the song with the story that you and Dave used to go see the band together. The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on keeping it “fun” after death of a beloved bandmate and 30 years of touring 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s a powerful metaphor, simultaneously menacing and reassuring, and it’s the first thing that connects the Afghan Whigs’ first album in 16 years with that band’s revered catalog. Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli: “Writing songs is the greatest gift I could give myself” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z But he’s not interested in turning the Whigs into a nostalgia act. Afghan Whigs revive combustible chemistry 2012-10-24T03:57:00Z This attitude underwent a reversal after the Glorious Revolution, which brought William III to power in 1689 with the help of Whig financiers who set up the Bank of England. Means of exchange 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z For the Afghan Whigs, corporeal desires were often as satisfying as retribution, and occasionally, one and the same. Afghan Whigs uncompromising at Metro 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s hard to tell if Dulli is smirking on the phone, but the band’s recent shows suggest the Whigs are in top form after a decade-long hiatus. Afghan Whigs revive combustible chemistry 2012-10-24T03:57:00Z Historian Joshua Zeitz offers Henry Clay, the senator and big Whig who ran for president in three separate decades of the 19th century. Ron DeSantis has reached a perilous point: Inevitability 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z An elegant and authoritative account of the peace tactics of Napoleon, based on sources in various languages, soon appeared, followed by the popular, yet strangely outdated, polemic against the Whig interpretation. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z Actual music is broadcast on the aforementioned jukebox, the selections for which are detailed on the flip side of the food menu and run from the Afghan Whigs to the Velvet Underground. EatBar review: A favorite returns, to the tune of a new neighborhood 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln himself, then a Whig congressman from Illinois, recognized that the war was a blatantly imperialistic exercise and denounced it in one of his earliest well-known speeches. Both Super Bowl LIV team names are pretty racist — Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Once the Federalists were gone, they squared off against a new party called the Whigs. In a presidential election, it’s almost always about two parties 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z We don’t know who will win, but we can guarantee it won’t be a Whig. In a presidential election, it’s almost always about two parties 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Recent reunions — by everyone from Afghan Whigs and The Stone Roses to The Beach Boys and Megadeath — prove bands don't go away. Hangin' Up the Guitar: Do Bands Ever Retire? 2012-06-05T10:45:29Z The Afghan Whigs told The Quietus that their much-lauded reunion will also not produce any new material. Hangin' Up the Guitar: Do Bands Ever Retire? 2012-06-05T10:45:29Z The particulars of Swift's satire -- references to the contemporary relations between England and France, or the conflict between the Whig and Tory parties -- are obscure to most modern readers. How Hollywood guts children's classics 2010-12-29T18:01:00Z He frequented the town as a lawyer, and delivered a speech in 1840 for the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison in a building near the bank of the Mississippi. Strolling Old Halls and Streets With Ghosts of Civil War 2010-05-13T21:56:00Z Few bands luxuriate in cruelty and coldness as extravagantly as the Whigs. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z “Bingham is a Whig Painter, using these images to depict a Democratic victory,” says Adam Arenson, associate professor of history at Manhattan College in New York, and an expert on Missouri history. The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The Afghan Whigs performed for the first time in 13 years at the All Tomorrow’s Parties’ festival in 2011 after Guided By Voices had to pull out. Hangin' Up the Guitar: Do Bands Ever Retire? 2012-06-05T10:45:29Z Never known for a tame disposition, the Afghan Whigs arrived at a packed Metro on Friday seeking revenge and craving lust. Afghan Whigs uncompromising at Metro 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Cilley, a Democrat, had charged a Whig editor, James Watson Webb, with having accepted a bribe. Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z The old Whig one – how Britain has got freer and better over time? Civilization: The West and the?Rest by Niall Ferguson ? review 2011-03-25T12:37:09Z But she seemed to be more interested in political maneuvering for personal gain, or for the benefit of her party, the Tories, who competed with the Whigs for power. The real women of "The Favourite" included an 18th-century Warren Buffett 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Tellingly, Abigail left politics when Anne died, while Sarah, a Whig, didn’t end her political involvement even when dismissed from Anne’s service. The real women of "The Favourite" included an 18th-century Warren Buffett 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z The character Dulli played in many of the Whigs songs redefined nastiness, though many of his portraits of relationship hell also seethed with black humor. Afghan Whigs revive combustible chemistry 2012-10-24T03:57:00Z When he was asked to reunite the Whigs for a couple of festival shows this year, he gave the go-ahead to a Whigs tour, which included blazing performances in August at Lollapalooza and Metro. Afghan Whigs revive combustible chemistry 2012-10-24T03:57:00Z Wrestling with the remnants of the Whig Party and then constructing the contours of the new Republican Party. Abraham Lincoln's early life is recast by Sidney Blumenthal in the masterful 'Wrestling With His Angel' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The Afghan Whigs are heading to Europe and the U.K. for tour dates starting on Aug. 4, and kick off a U.S. tour on Sept. 6 in Orlando. The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli on keeping it “fun” after death of a beloved bandmate and 30 years of touring 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z He sent the letter through Graves, a Whig friend. Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z In addition to owning slaves, they supported the Whigs and became ardent supporters of the Confederacy, sending two of their sons to fight in the Civil War. ‘Inseparable’ Finds Pride, Indignity and Irony in the Lives of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z A crisis occurred late in his reign when a parliamentary faction called the Whigs tried to exclude his younger brother, James II, from being eligible for the throne because he was openly Catholic. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Sade Ayorinde, one of the curators, says her favorite piece is the Whig Rose and Swag Border Quilt. Stories told in stitchery at Folk Art Museum’s quilt exhibit 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z They were warning their fellow Whig that he needed to abandon his support for America's growing anti-slavery movement. The unsolved mystery of the president who may have been assassinated with arsenic 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Rep. John Quincy Adams, a Massachusetts Whig and former president, voted to move the statue “for the reason that water dripped down on it” from the roof, the Congressional Globe reported. The first statue removed from the Capitol: George Washington in a toga 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Democrats controlled the Senate, but no party controlled the House after the disintegration of the Whig Party. When the House needed two months and 133 votes to elect a speaker 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The one-term congressman and successful lawyer had always hated slavery, but he came of age a devotee of Henry Clay and the Whigs’ moderate approach. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z At 9:30 Club in September, the Afghan Whigs, once known for their eclectic encores, pummeled the audience with bracing guitars and booming drums for a couple dozen straight songs. Has the encore left the building? 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Mike provided a warm and enthusiastic introduction; Starr interrupted, with a twinkle in his eye: “But Mike,” he protested, “you called me a Whig apologist!” The key to Mike Davis' brilliance: He never fit in 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z That was the year Abraham Lincoln helped write a campaign circular for the Whig Party that laid out a plan for identifying and mobilizing individual voters. Why Am I Seeing That Political Ad? Check Your ‘Trump Resistance’ Score. 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Michael Holmes said five people were found dead inside the home on a cul-de-sac in Elk Mills, a few miles from the Delaware state line, The Cecil Whig reported. Official: 5 found dead in northeastern Maryland home 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z But as we have seen, the election of 1856 was the end of the road for the Whigs. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Decades later, after a breakup and a reunion and a number of personnel changes, the Whigs are still going. Greg Dulli walks into a bar... 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Harold Holzer, also a renowned scholar on Lincoln's life and times, told Salon last year that Lincoln's former political affiliation as a member of the Whig Party further explains his passion for infrastructure. Abraham Lincoln, master inventor: The true story of the only president to ever patent an invention 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Whigs opposed what they viewed as the tyrannical rule of Andrew Jackson. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Both the Whigs and the Democrats were unwilling to take on the evil of slavery. Historian Linda Hirshman: We need a "revived feminist movement" ready to fight "white innocence" 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z It took a Republican president many years later, Abraham Lincoln, to realize Hamilton's vision, transformed into the "American System" proposed by Whig Party founder Henry Clay. How Joe Biden is like America's founding fathers — and no, I'm not kidding 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The Short Stop was his first investment; he paid $15,000 for his initial stake in 2000 as the Whigs’ original incarnation was beginning to fall apart. Greg Dulli walks into a bar... 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Lincoln boarded with a leading abolitionist congressman, Joshua Giddings, a Whig from Ohio, who helped shape Lincoln’s views. Lincoln tried to free the enslaved in D.C. years before he succeeded 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Whigs believed in an active federal government committed to internal improvements, including the establishment of a national bank. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Most antislavery voters found a better home in the Whig Party. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In the future, they might call themselves Whigs. Elie Mystal: Our Constitution is "actually trash" — but the Supreme Court can be fixed 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Dulli, who carries himself like a minor character in a Martin Scorsese movie, knew bars well before he started playing them with the Afghan Whigs. Greg Dulli walks into a bar... 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Lincoln, 39, a member of the Whig Party from Illinois, as the Republican Party had still not yet come into existence, was not an outright abolitionist. Lincoln tried to free the enslaved in D.C. years before he succeeded 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Indeed, conservative Whigs defined themselves in opposition to democracy, which they equated with anarchy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Some northern Whigs were committed abolitionists; most of the rest disliked slavery without supporting immediate abolition or racial equality. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Only after the Democratic Party split, with the left joining with the Whigs and others to form the antislavery Republican Party, did the tradition begin to show its real potential. Review | How to use the Constitution to rein in American oligarchs and save democracy 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z A group called the Whigs opposed James, and a group called the Tories supported him. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This was called the Whig theory, which assumed that Congress would lead the policy process, while Presidents were limited to the powers expressly granted to them in the Constitution. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Conservative Whigs believed in government by a patrician class, a ruling group composed of a small number of privileged families. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z As a party, southern Whigs swore fidelity to slavery as much as Democrats, but slavery’s rare southern critics usually came from Whig ranks. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Lord Macaulay cried, fearful that his Whig politics would be misrepresented. Review | Sure, Google is handy, but what about the mighty book index? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The former vice president had succeeded Whig President William Henry Harrison, who died on April 4, 1841, after just a month in office. How a warship explosion led to the first marriage of a sitting U.S. president 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Both campaigns embraced the term and, more importantly, the Whigs developed a number of innovative techniques to push Harrison to victory. From "OK" to "Let's Go Brandon": A short history of insulting presidential nicknames 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Radical Whigs favored broadening the popular participation in political life and pushed for democracy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z By the same token, some Whigs could imagine permitting blacks some rights without conceding full equality, such as voting rights with a property requirement. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The delicate yellowed pages of those early editions contain stories about area Whig conventions and ads for newfangled steel plows. A media giant guts a newspaper and crushes the soul of a town 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Tyler, a former Democrat, vetoed so many bills passed by the Whig Congress that the Whigs kicked him out of the party. How a warship explosion led to the first marriage of a sitting U.S. president 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Harrison was also a military veteran, dubbed "Old Tippecanoe" by the Whigs, in reference to a battle he fought in 1811 against the Native American confederacy under the legendary Shawnee chief Tecumseh. From "OK" to "Let's Go Brandon": A short history of insulting presidential nicknames 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Benjamin Rush, a Whig educator and physician from Philadelphia, strongly advocated for the education of girls and young women as part of the larger effort to ensure that republican virtue and republican motherhood would endure. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Going further, northern Whigs clearly sympathized with evangelical reforms, including antislavery. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His stewardship of the Fed is, in that sense, the 21st-century American embodiment of the concept of “Tory men, Whig measures.” Should Biden Reappoint Jerome Powell? It Depends on His Theory of Change. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Since the Whig Party considered him an outlaw like Robin Hood, he named his new slave plantation Sherwood Forest. How a warship explosion led to the first marriage of a sitting U.S. president 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z If the party can't reform itself, it needs to go the way of the Whigs and be put out of its misery. One of them has to go: The GOP or America as we know it 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Conservative Whigs, who distrusted the idea of majority rule, recoiled from the abolition of property qualifications for voting and office holding in Pennsylvania. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Praising “the people” above the elites, Democrats learned the tricks of popular mobilization more quickly than the Whigs. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z There hasn’t been a successful third party in the United States since the 1850s, when the GOP arose out of the wreckage of the Whig Party. Opinion | The GOP can’t be saved. Center-right voters need to become Biden Republicans. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z It was preceded in death by the Whigs. Impeachment trial: RIP, Republican Party 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Today’s two major parties have framed political competition since the middle of the 19th century — since the Republicans rose from the rubble of the Whigs. Opinion | Will Senate Republicans allow their louts to rule the party? 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Conservative Whig John Adams reacted with horror to the 1776 Pennsylvania constitution, declaring that it was “so democratical that it must produce confusion and every evil work.” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Anti-Masons and the Workingmen each attempted to escape the two-party straitjacket, but the Whigs and the Democrats absorbed them both. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Whigs broke up in the 1850s over the issue of slavery, and the Republican party emerged. Principle over power: Let’s form a new Republican party 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs. Opinion | This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Whether the result is one party becoming the Whigs, or both splintering and leaving the United States with three or four factions competing for power, this is unprecedented dark territory. In a divided country, economic direction is no sure thing 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z In his mind and those of other conservative Whigs, this constitution simply put too much power in the hands of men who had no business exercising the right to vote. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Reluctant Whigs learned the tricks of electioneering pageantry, and used them to defeat the Democrats as prosperity remained elusive. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Democratic Party split over the leadership of Andrew Jackson, eventually creating the Whig party. Principle over power: Let’s form a new Republican party 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The GOP was born, from the ashes of the Whigs, under similar circumstances. Opinion | This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Webb, for example, coined the name "Whig" for the political party his newspaper helped organize in the 1830s with commercial and mercantile interests, largely in response to the emergence of Jacksonian democracy. Substack isn’t a new model for journalism — it’s a very old one 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Tippecanoe Clubs, where booze flowed freely, helped in the marketing of the Whig candidate. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Whigs faced a harder decision that year. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Perhaps most ominously, one prominent Pennsylvanian identifying himself only as “An Old Whig,” wrote about this in Antifederalist No. 70 and is worth quoting at length: The Founders didn’t prepare for a president who refuses to step down, historians say 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z Taylor won, but he savaged Whig leaders and Whig doctrine. Opinion | This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z In 1852, President Millard Fillmore, who had ascended to the presidency after the death of Zachary Taylor, made a halfhearted attempt to win the Whig Party nomination for a full term. Trump 2024? Presidential comebacks have mixed success 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The Democrats divided along sectional lines as a result of the bill, and the Whig party, in decline in the early 1850s, found its political power slipping further. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z No single party member stood out above all others as a suitable candidate for president, and many Whigs disapproved of party conventions and caucuses to force a partisan choice upon reluctant freemen. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z You saw it in the United States with Whigs and Democrats, you saw that in Britain with Tories and Liberals, you saw it in Germany and France. How the conservative movement and the rise of the hard right created Donald Trump 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The Whigs in 1848 jettisoned their core principle — limited presidential power — in favor of political expediency. Opinion | This Republican Party needs to go the way of the Whigs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z The time before that was 1852, when the two major parties were the Democrats and the Whigs. Opinion | Will Trump Win Pennsylvania Again? 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Most important, the Kansas-Nebraska Act gave rise to the Republican Party, a new political party that attracted northern Whigs, Democrats who shunned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, members of the Free-Soil Party, and assorted abolitionists. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Undeterred, Whigs made the most of the military exploits of “Old Tippecanoe.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z After the election, the Anti-Masonic Party merged with former Republicans to form the Whig Party, which would become a force in American politics for several decades. Nearly two centuries ago, a QAnon-like conspiracy theory propelled candidates to Congress 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z He and prominent Whig Sen. Henry Clay fashioned the Compromise of 1850. Douglas’ statue to be removed from Illinois Capitol lawn 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln, a lifelong Whig, forged the Illinois Republican party in 1856 out of a cacophony of contending factions, including radical abolitionists, Whigs, dissident antislavery Democrats and liberal German immigrants. Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Protestant ministers led both organizations, which enjoyed support from New Englanders who clung to the ideals of the Federalist Party and later the Whigs. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Dismissing Whig arguments as a smoke screen from greedy bankers who only wanted to feast on the people’s money, Democrats sided with the president but could not deliver enough votes. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z A number of prominent Whigs, from former President Millard Fillmore to former New York Gov. William Seward, were originally members of the Anti-Masonic Party. Nearly two centuries ago, a QAnon-like conspiracy theory propelled candidates to Congress 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z “It was like a regimen,” their son Ray Marino, 60, one of two surviving sons along with twin Paul Jr., told the Cecil Whig newspaper of Cecil County, Maryland, last week. Maryland couple slain at Delaware veterans cemetery visited son’s grave almost daily, surviving son says 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Most regarded themselves as Old Whigs, “conservatives in principle” in the words of their party platform. Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z To men of property, mostly conservative Whigs, Shays’ Rebellion strongly suggested the republic was falling into anarchy and chaos. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When he finally won it in 1840, the prize was politically useless, for hard times had scarcely abated and Whigs looked forward to the next election with undisguised jubilation. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His first political party, the Whigs, saw internal improvements as the keystone of their policy platform. Lincoln’s forgotten legacy as America’s first ‘green president’ 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z No motive was apparent either, the Delaware State Police told the Cecil Whig. Maryland couple slain at Delaware veterans cemetery visited son’s grave almost daily, surviving son says 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Their standard-bearer was Millard Fillmore, the last Whig president, a decorous figurehead. Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Whigs advocated accelerated economic growth, often endorsing federal government projects to achieve that goal. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Despite his larger ambitions and his anger at Trist, Polk decided to accept the deal as the best he could get, knowing that congressional Whigs might block a resumption of fighting. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It is likely that any Whig would have defeated the unpopular Van Buren in 1840, but Harrison had a war record, was perceived as a populist and put together a highly efficient campaign organization. One-term presidents: Will Donald Trump end up on this ignominious list? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Presbyterians and other Protestants not members of the Church of England — who were often wealthy merchants and Whigs. U.S. impeachment and U.K. prorogation: Back to 1710 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The Know Nothings emerged from the crack-up of the Whig party over the issue of the extension of slavery in the territories. Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z The membership of the parties also differed: Whigs tended to be wealthier; they were prominent planters in the South and wealthy urban northerners—in other words, the beneficiaries of the market revolution. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Whigs were less fortunate in their search for party unity. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z This description was genuinely inaccurate, but that didn't much matter when the opposition Whigs nominated Gen. William Henry Harrison, who was characterized as "the log cabin and hard cider candidate." One-term presidents: Will Donald Trump end up on this ignominious list? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z But the Whigs had lost control of the body in the 1842 election, and the resolution failed. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Behind the scenes, Lincoln worked to undermine the Know Nothings, break up their party and bring some of its former Whig adherents to his new cause. Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z John Tyler of Virginia ran as the vice presidential candidate, leading the Whigs to trumpet, “Tippecanoe and Tyler too!” as a campaign slogan. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In the Deep South, many Whigs left their party for the Democrats and gave their former rivals a near monopoly of power. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z When Lincoln served his sole term in Congress in the late 1840s, the young lawyer from Illinois became close friends with Horace Greeley, a fellow Whig who served briefly alongside him. You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln. 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Whig Party leader Henry Clay of Kentucky cautioned that impeachment might be a risky way to counter the president’s bitter clashes with the Whig-controlled Congress. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Hicks was previously a Democrat, then a Whig. Hogan condemning Trump tweets signals shift since 1800s on Maryland politicians, immigration 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z At Whig political rallies, the faithful were treated to whiskey made by the E. C. Booz Company, leading to the introduction of the word “booze” into the American lexicon. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Southern Whigs almost disappeared after 1854, when northern Whigs outraged the South by rejecting the Kansas-Nebraska Act and its repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Like the Democrats, they rose phoenix-like from the ashes of a recently disintegrated party — the Whigs. How did the Republican Party become so conservative? 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The 51-year-old Tyler, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Virginia, had only recently switched to the Whig Party. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In 1836, he was reelected to a second term as one of 21 members of the newly formed Whig Party. Hogan condemning Trump tweets signals shift since 1800s on Maryland politicians, immigration 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z His actions, however, stimulated opponents to fashion an opposition party, the Whigs. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z With a firm majority, unrelenting Democrats forced Whigs to vote for the preamble or go on record as opposing the rescue of embattled American troops. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Sangamo Journal evolved into the Illinois State Journal, a Whig and later Republican Party mouthpiece that Abraham Lincoln once used to promote his political fortunes. Staffer: Illinois newspaper editor resigned to spare layoffs 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z As president, he began vetoing so many bills passed by Congress that the Whigs kicked him out of their party. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The Whig Party was formed in 1834 as a political party to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Democrats. Hogan condemning Trump tweets signals shift since 1800s on Maryland politicians, immigration 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Very quickly, politicians among the Whigs and Democrats learned to master the magic of the many by presenting candidates and policies that catered to the will of the majority. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Henry Clay led most Whigs to decline all annexations. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z With our memories we are all guilty of a Whig interpretation of our personal histories, seeing our former selves as steps toward our glorious present selves. Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Mobs of angry Whigs protested in front of the White House. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z By the mid 1850s, the Whig Party was on the downturn, and the Native American — or Know Nothing — Party was on the rise. Hogan condemning Trump tweets signals shift since 1800s on Maryland politicians, immigration 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z The Democrats chose Lewis Cass, and the Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor, as Polk had assumed they would. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In keeping with their reform traditions, northern Whigs were most receptive to antislavery ideas, but free-soil principles were also spreading among northern Democrats who resented southern domination of their party. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He oversaw the notorious removal of Cherokee Indians along the deadly Trail of Tears, and in 1852, he unsuccessfully ran for president as a Whig Party candidate. The general’s horse wasn’t manly enough. So the sculptor gave the mare a makeover. 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The Whigs were especially frustrated because Congress had failed to override any of Tyler’s vetoes. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z At the inauguration of America’s first Whig president, on March 4, 1841, a bitterly cold day, Harrison declined to wear a jacket or hat, made a two-hour speech, and attended three inauguration balls.” What’s it all about, Mr. Schultz? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Both the Whigs and the Democrats attempted to avoid addressing the issue of slavery publicly as much as possible. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In December 1845, some of these free-soil Democrats joined northern Whigs to repeal the hated gag rule against antislavery petitions, but the president ignored their underlying complaints. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He vetoed so many bills that the Whigs kicked him out of their party, and his entire Cabinet resigned except for Webster. ‘His Accidency’: The first president to die in office and the Constitutional confusion that followed 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The Whigs finally got some revenge in Tyler’s final month in office, March 1845, when Congress overrode a veto of a bill on building Marine service ships. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The successor party, the Whigs, that arose in the 1830s substantially carried forward the Federalist cause but soon enough collapsed on the issue of slavery. Some meta Mueller questions 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Both the Whigs and the Democrats ran different campaigns in the North and South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Slavery in the nearby territories bothered more midwesterners than the largely urban problem of immigration, and there the free-soil Whigs and Democrats forged antislavery alliances that soon coalesced as the Republican Party. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Tyler had only recently switched to the Whig Party but didn’t share many of its views. ‘His Accidency’: The first president to die in office and the Constitutional confusion that followed 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The same Democratic newspapers that had pilloried the Whig presidential ticket of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” defended Tyler and attacked Botts. ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The article was used by opposition Whig politicians to challenge continued British participation in the war. Trump’s executive order on drone strikes sends civilian casualty data back into the shadows 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z In the North, the Free-Soil Party took votes away from Whigs and Democrats and helped to ensure Taylor’s election in 1848. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Attracted to Whig respect for self-improvement, Lincoln served several terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress, where he attacked the illegality and injustice of the Mexican War. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Since the Whigs considered him to be an outlaw like Robin Hood, Tyler named the plantation Sherwood Forest. ‘His Accidency’: The first president to die in office and the Constitutional confusion that followed 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Speaking in 1986, LaRouche described himself as being in the tradition of the American Whig Party, a forerunner of the GOP in the first half of the 19th century. Lyndon LaRouche, perennial presidential candidate, dead at 96 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z In 1986, LaRouche described himself as being in the tradition of the American Whig party, a forerunner of the Republican Party in the first half of the 19th century. Lyndon LaRouche dies, was perennial presidential candidate 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The act also upended the second party system of Whigs and Democrats by inspiring the formation of the new Republican Party, committed to arresting the further spread of slavery. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z British officers tended to treat all Americans as the enemy and plundered the property of Whigs and Loyalists alike, driving their victims to the Whig camp. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Whigs protested outside the White House and hanged Tyler in effigy. ‘His Accidency’: The first president to die in office and the Constitutional confusion that followed 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z In the 1820s, the Federalist party collapsed and the Whigs eventually took their place. Howard Schultz’s independence could be a blessing for centrists 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Whig” is an antiquated English term for liberal or progressive. The Deep Roots of Fake News 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z In England, opponents of James II’s efforts to create a centralized Catholic state were known as Whigs. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Cornwallis decided that Clinton had been too lenient, and decreed that all defeated Whigs must not only stop fighting but give him active support, a decision that turned many sidelined Whigs against him. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The only reason the Whig Party had picked the former Virginia senator as Harrison’s running mate in the 1840 election was to woo Southern voters. ‘His Accidency’: The first president to die in office and the Constitutional confusion that followed 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z In the 1850s, the slavery issue destroyed the Whigs, transformed the Democrats into a sectional party and created the Republican Party. Howard Schultz’s independence could be a blessing for centrists 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Hannah Greig, the historical adviser for the film, says the film accurately "captures the essence of the politics of the time" with Whigs and Tories competing for power. Who was the queen brought to life by Olivia Colman? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The Whigs worked to depose James, and in late 1688 they succeeded, an event they celebrated as the Glorious Revolution while James fled to the court of Louis XIV in France. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Fighting back, Whig commanders assembled militia units by promising captured slaves as soldiers’ pay or as enlistment bounties. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Lincoln was a popular figure in Mexico, dating all the way to his first term in Congress, when, as a Whig from Illinois, he opposed the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico. Perspective | How did a Mexican president come to have a traffic circle in D.C. named after him? 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The Whig Party, which had sent two winning candidates to the White House in the 1840s, had crumbled, its Northern and Southern factions irreparably at odds over slavery’s expansion into territories and new states. A fanatic and 'Negro-stealer’: One of the ugliest House speaker fights in history 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Literally kicking him out of the party such that he would not be nominated again, at least by the Whigs, and certainly his old Democrats didn't want him back either. Impeachment isn’t the only way: How past presidents were removed from office 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The Whigs nominated General Zachary Taylor, a slaveholder from Louisiana, who had achieved national prominence as a military hero in the Mexican-American War. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Reaching out to voters who might ignore printed appeals, both parties held excited nightly meetings in every neighborhood, climaxed by a rollicking Whig ball on election eve. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Franklin’s father, Josiah, was a Presbyterian Puritan and Whig who left England for Boston in 1683 seeking economic opportunity and freedom from religious and political persecution. Review | Ambitious, flawed Ben Franklin on a path to greatness 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Then in 1704, England changed its mind and the Whigs plunged into the war of the Spanish succession against Louis XIV. Britain will go back into the European club. History proves it | Simon Jenkins 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “If the GOP has many more ‘victories’ like this, it will go the way of the Whigs,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon. Kyrsten Sinema, Jacky Rosen Senate wins reduce Trump midterm ‘victory’ 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The Free-Soil Party attracted northern Democrats who supported the Wilmot Proviso, northern Whigs who rejected Taylor because he was a slaveholder, former members of the Liberty Party, and other abolitionists. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Democrats wore pink ribbons and the Whigs sported blue ones. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z According to Pitcavage, many KKK members were Democrats since the Whig Party had died out and white Southerners disliked the Republican party. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The Anti-Masonic Party flourished in the late 1820s and early 1830s, before the partisan divisions of the antebellum era solidified into Democrats versus Whigs. How an abduction by the mysterious Freemasons led to a third political party — the nation’s first 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z But a Democratic Senate did not consider the nominee of President Millard Fillmore, of the Whig Party, in 1852. McConnell’s Position Has Shifted on Considering Supreme Court Nominees in Election Years 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z In the North, all three parties attempted to win voters with promises of keeping the territories free of slavery, while in the South, Whigs and Democrats promised to protect slavery in the territories. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Whigs claimed a narrow victory when order returned, but the shattered ballot box remained an apt symbol for the fractured community. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The duchess was Mistress of the Robes whenever the Whig party were in power but the queen refused to part from her when the Tories were elected, causing the party to fall. 'Profumo affair' house hosts festival 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z An advert in the Northern Whig in Belfast hailed Oxo gravy as an "immense service as a protective measure". Spanish flu: 'We didn't know who we'd lose next' 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z When Henry Wise, a Virginia Whig and a notorious bully, suggested that an unnamed Democratic congressman was corrupt, Cilley leaped to the defense of his party. Opinion | The Violence at the Heart of Our Politics 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z In 1852, voters went to the polls in a presidential contest between Whig candidate Winfield Scott and Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Fayetteville’s future elections would not be quite so tumultuous, but Whigs and Democrats continued to dominate both local and national politics. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z For Lincoln in the 1850s, confronting the Whigs and the Democrats, that language was free labor. Opinion | The New Socialists 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The writ of habeas corpus is the most famous instantiation of this value in the Anglo-American tradition, with medieval roots that early modern, proto-liberal Whigs exaggerated into a full-blown centuries-old legal rule. America’s border and the rule of law: Are we becoming a terror state? 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Four armed Southern Democrats immediately joined him, which prompted four Whigs to position themselves around Giddings, several of them armed as well. Opinion | The Violence at the Heart of Our Politics 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Whigs championed an active federal government committed to internal improvements, including a national bank. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z At the federal level, President Van Buren rejected Whig demands that he act to revive the economy. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Fillmore later joined the Whig Party at a time of mounting hostility to refugees from famine, rebellion and tyranny who were arriving by the shipload at the gates of the New World. This is the US president most like Trump 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The party, he said, “is irredeemable,” at risk of going the way of the Whig Party or, as it now is in California, running third in registration behind Democrats and “decline to state.” A GOP strategist abandons his party and calls for the election of Democrats 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Alli was initially running as a Democrat but withdrew in March to run as an independent and then was nominated by the newly formed Whig party. Democratic primaries take spotlight in House races in Va. 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z They made their first national appearance in the presidential election of 1836, a contest that pitted Jackson’s handpicked successor, Martin Van Buren, against a field of several Whig candidates. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Whigs resisted furiously, realizing that the banks used the government’s deposits to make profitable loans in the credit-starved economy. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Both were admired — and elected — as Whig wits with the gift for telling good stories. A memorable home base for the father of Seattle’s founders 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Tariffs were the Republican creed from the Civil War to the Great Depression, and a fundamental doctrine of its preceding party, the Whigs. What Trump has in common with Lincoln and Ferris Bueller 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the Whigs never gained enough of a foothold to implement it. Trump’s infrastructure scheme: Tearing down 150 years of federal support 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Indeed, the large field of Whig candidates indicated the new party’s lack of organization compared to the Democrats. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Confident of success, Whigs assembled their own convention in December 1839. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He found him in Elkton, a town of just under 16,000 off Interstate 95, where the local newspaper, the Cecil Whig, is named for a political party that died before the Civil War. This ‘hillbilly madman’ is country music royalty. So why haven’t you heard of him? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Take Millard Fillmore, who was elected vice president on the Whig ticket in 1848 and became president when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. Opinion | They Were Bad. He May Be Worse. 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z At the time, Elam was editor of the Richmond Whig. Meet 3 former Virginian-Pilot editors who fought in duels 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z As the effects of the Panic of 1837 continued to be felt for years afterward, the Whig press pinned the blame for the economic crisis on Van Buren and the Democrats. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Tyler was a conservative planter with Old Republican leanings who had gravitated to the Whigs for fear of Jackson’s bellicose stand on nullification, but Whigs gave his opinions little thought as they organized for victory. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z What used to be called "the Whig theory of history" saw civilisation steadily moving in a more open, liberal direction. Where economic power goes, political power will follow 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The Unionism of the Virginia Whigs was always pro-slavery Unionism, so it’s not so surprising that they ended up siding with the Confederates. Civil War life in all its day-to-day contrasts 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z As their party effectively disintegrated, many northern Whigs joined the new Republican Party. 1851 | Born Into a Racial Turmoil That Has Never Ended 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z By this time, the second party system had taken hold, a system whereby the older Federalist and Democratic-Republican Parties had been replaced by the new Democratic and Whig Parties. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Embellishing the methods that Democrats had long used to enliven their own campaigns, Whigs gathered in enormous rallies for “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” and derided “Little Van” as a “used up man.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He was a reforming Whig politician with the nickname "Radical Jack" who inherited vast wealth, created by the coalmining interests on his family's estates, when he was only five. More landmarks to show you're nearly home - BBC News 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z He’s mostly talking about music: the Afghan Whigs are from Cincinnati, and Guided By Voices from nearby. The National: ‘Even in the hard times, we always loved each other’ 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z He belonged to the Whig party, which was tearing itself apart in the 1850s trying to accommodate its pro- and antislavery wings. 1851 | Born Into a Racial Turmoil That Has Never Ended 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Both Whigs and Democrats jockeyed for election victories and commanded the steady loyalty of political partisans. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Whigs in the Capitol followed Senator Henry Clay, but President Tyler had no sympathy for Clay’s unchanged plans for an activist federal government. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The two major political parties, the Whigs and Democrats, either disintegrated or broke into sectional parts, north and south, over slavery. 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “My drum teacher was in the Afghan Whigs,” Bryan goes on. The National: ‘Even in the hard times, we always loved each other’ 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most dramatic example was the Senate censuring Andrew Jackson in 1834, when the Whig majority in the Senate, outraged over the then-president’s efforts to end the national bank, formally rebuked him. Trump censure resolution challenges the GOP to do more than talk 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z What were the philosophies and policies of the new Whig Party? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Infuriated by Tyler’s rejection of the doctrines that voters had apparently endorsed in 1840, congressional Whigs denounced the president, and all of Harrison’s cabinet appointees resigned except Secretary of State Daniel Webster. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 1849, he returned to Illinois as a one-term congressman, a capable lawyer and a minor cog in a creaky Whig political machine that soon disintegrated. Opinion | How Lincoln grew during his wilderness years into a politically savvy statesman 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The Whigs released their first new album in 16 years in 2014, “Do to the Beast,” just in time for an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Latter-day Afghan Whigs guitarist Dave Rosser dies at 50 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Recognizing the Fire Department as a key political ally, for example, the ruling Whigs showered the agency with new engines and tools. Williamsburg’s Short, Crooked Life as a City 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z He had to invite leading members of the opposition Whig party to join his government, but then set about implementing a programme of progressive reforms. George Canning: The four-month pistol-packing PM - BBC News 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The competition between Whigs and Democrats constantly threw up new issues and controversies for public decision. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In explaining Lincoln’s transition from just another Whig to a rising Republican, Blumenthal keeps the man himself off the stage. Opinion | How Lincoln grew during his wilderness years into a politically savvy statesman 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z “As radical Whigs gained strength in North America, the political culture of the British Empire became increasingly Janus-faced.” We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The Whigs had one chance to implement the American System, when William Henry Harrison was elected president in 1840. Andrew Jackson economics 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z If a political party can only win by cheating then the party is no longer relevant and deserves to go the way of the Whigs and the Federalists. Key Question for Supreme Court: Will It Let Gerrymanders Stand? 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z For the sake of balance, however, it abandoned the pro-compromise incumbent Millard Fillmore in favor of General Winfield Scott, the conqueror of Mexico whose antislavery leanings appealed to northern Whigs. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Blumenthal shows how Lincoln maneuvered himself and others toward the new Republican Party without entirely leaving the Whigs, at least at first. Opinion | How Lincoln grew during his wilderness years into a politically savvy statesman 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z On one side were what he calls “authoritarian reformers”; on the other, those radical Whigs. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z But he died a little more than a month into his term and his vice president had no loyalty to Whig policies. Andrew Jackson economics 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z “Each woman was visibly shaken by the entire ordeal and the recounting of it,” Oglesby told the jury, according to reporting by The Whig’s Carl Hamilton. Md. prosecutor sentenced for hotel sex acts in front of glass door in Ocean City 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z This outcome pleased nobody, for northern Whigs despised the platform and southerners hated the nominee, leading voters in both sections to abandon the ticket in droves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z His death empowered Whigs who supported slavery or were willing to compromise on its expansion. Opinion | How Lincoln grew during his wilderness years into a politically savvy statesman 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The radical Whigs were for democratization, the authoritarian reformers firmly against it. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The Whigs supported Henry Clay’s “American System,” which promoted a strong federal role to strengthen and tie the nation together. Andrew Jackson economics 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Rollins had told The Whig last June that he had been charged “based on one side of the story” and that Oglesby had not heard his side. Md. prosecutor sentenced for hotel sex acts in front of glass door in Ocean City 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z “These party names of Whig and Democrat now mean nothing and point to nothing,” he complained in 1853. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 1860, five years after the Whig Party collapsed, Lincoln was elected president. Opinion | How Lincoln grew during his wilderness years into a politically savvy statesman 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The radical Whigs were for responsible authority, the authoritarian reformers for firm authority. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z During the early to mid-1850s, he broke with fellow Democrats over the issue of slavery and joined with members of the Free Soilers, Free Democrats and Whigs to form the Republican Party. Portrait of first state Republican governor comes to Capitol 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It can continue to collapse until it’s transformed into something new, like the nineteenth-century Whigs, forerunners of the Republican Party. Aftermath: Sixteen New Yorker Writers on Trump’s America 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z As in the days of James K. Polk, support for western expansion might do the trick by appealing to Democrats of both sections and fueling differences with anti-expansionist Whigs. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z After critics sneered that the 67-year-old “granny” would rather stay in his log campaign and drink hard cider, the Whigs portrayed him as the champion of the common man living in his log-cabin home. The Thank-God-It's-Almost-Over Presidential Election Quiz 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Those we think of as “loyalists” in the American context were simply authoritarian reformers who lost their war; those we think of as “patriots” were simply radical Whigs who won. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z That was the election of 1852, when the Whig Party, then one of the country’s two major political forces, began to crumble over bitter arguments about slavery. Donald Trump and the G.O.P.: The Party of Lincoln, Reagan and, Perhaps, Extinction 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The last time the U.S. had a president that didn't come from one of these major parties was Millard Fillmore, a member of the long-since-dead Whig Party. The U.S. Has Had a Democratic or GOP President Since 1853 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Coalitions of Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soilers had rallied all over the North to protest the Kansas-Nebraska Act, often using names like the People’s Party or the Union Party. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Whigs promised to Make America Great Again, or as they put it, “Harrison and Reform.’ The Thank-God-It's-Almost-Over Presidential Election Quiz 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Although his sympathies are with the radical Whigs, he sees that many of the authoritarians’ claims were not false. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The Whigs would dissolve within four years, to be reborn as the Republican Party — the very party now engulfed by its own civil war. Donald Trump and the G.O.P.: The Party of Lincoln, Reagan and, Perhaps, Extinction 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z It could go the way of the Whigs or Canada’s Conservative Party in 1993 and literally disappear, or it could reconstitute itself so radically that it bears little resemblance to the Republican Party of today. Even after Trump loses, the GOP is still toast 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Key newspapers embraced the movement, including the formerly Whig New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post, once a tower of strength for the Democrats. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Democratic newspapers announced the indictments in late October, implying that the Whigs also were trying to steal the 1840 presidential election. The Thank-God-It's-Almost-Over Presidential Election Quiz 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Against the skeptical view of the achievement of the American Revolution, one can easily posit a view more radical than even the ideology of radical Whigs quite suggests. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z On other occasions, parties collapse entirely, as did the Whig Party in the mid-19th century, torn apart by divisions over slavery. The GOP is history. What about the country? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The Cecil Whig reported that after the death was ruled accidental, Harper pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of contributing to conditions that caused a child to be in need of assistance. Mother charged with homicide after death of 2nd infant 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z For the most part, Fillmore’s southern supporters were former Whigs who used the Know-Nothing perch to warn against Republicans and fire-eaters. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Instead of federal investigators, federal prosecutors in New York were about to indict some Whig politicians for bringing in illegal voters from Philadelphia during the 1838 election of New York governor William Seward. The Thank-God-It's-Almost-Over Presidential Election Quiz 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Whig radicalism produces charismatic politics—popular politics in a positive sense, and then in a negative one, too. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Almost in spite of themselves, the founders allied themselves into political parties: First the Federalists against the Democratic-Republicans, then the Whigs against the Democrats. Gary Johnson: Our two-party system has failed, just like our founders said it would 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z In the United States, a wide range of groups, from Whig Party offshoots to late-19th-century temperance leagues, claimed the slogan to various ends. America Is Safer Than It Used to Be. So Why Do We Still Have Calls for ‘Law and Order’? 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Old alignments between Whigs and Democrats persisted in this guise, but the Whigs/Americans were not widely competitive beyond the Upper South. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Republican Party was born in 1854 out of the Whig Party; it adopted a platform of increased federal power and an anti-slavery ideology. A better way forward for the GOP 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z In its place, theoretically, a new party will rise to replace it, much like the Republican Party replaced the Whigs just before the Civil War. From fringe to mainstream: Conspiracies, baseless accusations and lunacy is the new normal for Republicans 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Fundamentally, these laws prevent rivals from emerging that might replace the existing non-responsive parties—the way the Republicans emerged to replace the Whigs over the issue of slavery. The Real Reason You Can't Vote for an Independent Candidate 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z There is not one U.S. president—Federalist, Whig, Democratic-Republican Party, Democrat, Republican—whom Trump pointed to as an historical model. Donald Trump Fails U.S. History 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Northern workingmen should save their jobs, they argued, by voting for Republicans and the old Whig doctrine of protectionism. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z As Democrats and Republicans prepare for their conventions, the only topic the parties can agree on is that the Trans-Pacific Partnership should go the way of the Whigs. More Than a Trade Agreement 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z When the Republican Party was founded amid the dissolution of the Whig Party and uproar over slavery, Giddings became one of its earliest members. Ohio's Long History With the Republican Party 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z But the Republicans who held their first national convention 160 years ago were more than just Northern Whigs. GOP, RIP? 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Accordingly, the Whigs severed ties with their nativist allies. Why Republicans’ new anti-immigrant platform likely spells doom for them 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Recalling the Revolution, a coalition of National Republicans, nullifiers, and pro-Bank Democrats began to call the president “King Andrew the First” and themselves “Whigs,” after the British and colonial faction that resisted the Crown. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Even presidential conventions are nothing new: The 2016 Democratic National Convention is the city’s 12th since the Whig Party met here in 1848. Presidential footsteps in Philadelphia? They’re everywhere 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z At the time, the issue of slavery disrupted the Democratic and Whig parties and a nascent Republican Party coalesced around opposition to slavery, another insurgent political movement appeared poised to become a dominant force. Abraham Lincoln’s lesson for Trump: America’s at its best when we respect individual dignity 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z At the time, the issue of slavery disrupted the Democratic and Whig parties, and a nascent Republican Party coalesced around opposition to slavery, another insurgent political movement appeared poised to become a dominant force. This Is What Abraham Lincoln Would Tell Donald Trump 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In 1844, the Whig presidential ticket actively solicited endorsements from nativist groups. Why Republicans’ new anti-immigrant platform likely spells doom for them 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z At Clay’s urging, the Senate censured Jackson in the spring of 1834, and the Whigs contested local elections from New York City to villages like Fayetteville, North Carolina. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Members of several groups, including northern Democrats, the Free Soil Party and the Whigs, unified against the change. Your Wednesday Briefing 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z But since 1831, with only one exception—the Whigs in 1836—every major party has nominated its Presidential candidate at a Convention. How to Steal an Election 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z As an antislavery Whig who was making his way to the Republican Party in the mid-1850s, Lincoln believed that their xenophobia threatened the nation’s founding principles – the very principles that led him to oppose slavery. This Is What Abraham Lincoln Would Tell Donald Trump 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z When the Whigs lost, party leadership concluded that Democrats’ support among immigrants and Catholics had swung the election. Why Republicans’ new anti-immigrant platform likely spells doom for them 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Both parties defended themselves with republican traditions, but Democrats cited the superior virtue of the people while Whigs demanded respect for the law and limits on executive power. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z So did the Whigs, the Democrats, and, once the Whigs collapsed, the Republicans. The G.O.P. Plan That Turned America Red 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Because neither the Whig nor the Democratic Party was able to address the question of slavery, a crop of new parties sprang up. How Women Changed American Politics 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z These arrangements do not resemble the systems of highly democratic states like Finland or New Zealand, but they would fit comfortably within the Whig oligarchy of 18th-century England. Andrew Sullivan is blind: It’s elitists who helped give rise to America’s neo-fascist movement 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Before he went to Washington, Lincoln covertly controlled a Whig paper, wrote brutal editorials anonymously and eagerly read of great speeches made in the east. ‘I work. I write. And do some politics’: Sidney Blumenthal talks Lincoln, Clinton and Trump 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The early Whig Party was a motley assortment of Jackson’s critics, but most Whigs eventually rallied to Henry Clay’s American System and the broad constructionist theories that justified it. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Republican Party was founded by a mosh pit of dissenting anti-slavery and abolitionist activists, old Whigs, and Protestant moralists in 1854. History lesson for Paul Ryan: The Republicans have always been Donald Trump’s party 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The Whig Party was the first to make use of women in public, if ridiculously: in 1840, Tennessee women marched wearing sashes that read “Whig Husbands or None.” How Women Changed American Politics 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Despite dire predictions at the time, the Republican Party did not go the way of the Whigs. The Last Great Republican Rupture 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Thinking again of Lincoln and the Whigs, torn apart over slavery, he adds: “On the Republican side? No-one knows where this story ends. “We’re just at the beginning. ‘I work. I write. And do some politics’: Sidney Blumenthal talks Lincoln, Clinton and Trump 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Many Whigs despised partisanship for undermining republican independence, and adopted campaign stunts and party discipline very reluctantly. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Another result was the modern Republican Party, which resulted from the division of the Whig party into Northern and Southern Whigs. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The Whigs were essentially undone by their inability to agree on slavery; the attempt to satisfy both sides, with the Compromise of 1850, caused Northern and Southern Whigs to part. Reince Priebus is in over his head 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But as in 1976, there is ominous talk today that the GOP is in crisis—possibly headed for extinction, like the old antebellum Whig Party. The Last Great Republican Rupture 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Furthermore, Lincoln became a Republican because his first party, the Whigs, tore themselves apart over politics. ‘I work. I write. And do some politics’: Sidney Blumenthal talks Lincoln, Clinton and Trump 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z As the Whigs of Fayetteville demonstrated, however, they swallowed their doubts when nothing else would win elections. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In August, President Millard Fillmore, a Whig, nominated Edward A. Bradford, a highly regarded Louisiana lawyer and a graduate of Harvard Law School, to fill the vacancy. Obama’s Ahistorical Scolding About the Supreme Court 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z In 1854, America’s political party system — which pitted Democrats against their Whig rivals — was in a state of crisis. How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z President Millard Fillmore, a Whig who was not running for reelection, nominated three candidates — one in August, one in January and one in February. Does the Senate have a constitutional responsibility to consider a Supreme Court nomination? 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Let's scratch the Republican Party in its entirety and bring back the Whigs. In Republican Debate, Candidates Lower Volume as Five Key Primaries Near 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Democrats were most enthusiastic, and most critics were Federalists or Whigs, but support for expansion spread widely among the voters. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “He had been a member of the Whig Party, like Lincoln.” As presidential race heats up, an interesting archaeological discovery is made 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Deprived of their support in the South, the Whigs were no longer capable of carrying the White House — and thus incapable of dispensing federal patronage jobs, the common currency of 19th-century American politics. How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Polk was a Democrat, and even his first choice for the seat was rejected by the still-majority Whigs. Does the Senate have a constitutional responsibility to consider a Supreme Court nomination? 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Lincoln might say the Republicans are going the way of the Whigs. The GOP Birthed Trump 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Tyler’s alienation from each of the major parties made both Whigs and Democrats unwilling to hand him a victory, however, and Upshur made no progress until rumors of British plots began to circulate. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Harrison actually made a strong showing in 1836, but he was one of three candidates who split the Whig vote. Attleboro shop has place in history due to political buttons 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z In the vacuum created by the fall of the Whigs, new coalitions would arise. How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z By that point, Tyler’s rival, Whig Senator Henry Clay, was running for president and certainly wanted to wait until he was in office to make his own nomination and shape the court. Republicans beware: blocking supreme court nominations can backfire | James Nevius 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Shortly after the Whig Party died, the Democratic Party almost died as well—and from basically the same cause: the issue of slavery. This is how a political party dies: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders — and the collapse of our failed political elites 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z With the Democrats split, northerners could support him as a Whig and a war hero, while southerners saw him as one of their own. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Patriarch Robinson pioneered the metal button business in the Northeast and had been a rock-ribbed Whig, a forerunner of today’s Republican party, according to a published biography. Attleboro shop has place in history due to political buttons 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Leaders of the new Republican Party — another would-be successor to the Whigs — convinced Know Nothing voters that slaveholders posed a greater threat to the republic than immigrants. How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z There was no room for standing armies in the radical Whig ideology that underlay the Revolution. The Historical Problem With the Word 'Militia' 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Political parties that lose touch with their constituents end up going the way of the Whigs. What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have in common 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Whig president Fillmore and Democratic senator Douglas both called the compromise a “final settlement” and fondly predicted that the slavery debate would fade away. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 1840, the Whigs were united for the first time behind Harrison, and they had Van Buren on the ropes. Attleboro shop has place in history due to political buttons 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Navy boats in distress and humiliating the crew in violation of international law, would have outraged any previous president, Democrat, Republican or Whig. WESLEY PRUDEN: Befuddled Obama without a clue 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Her arrival in England coincided with speculation over whether Lord Grenville and his coalition of Whigs - known as the "broad bottoms" because of Grenville's own large behind - would try to seize government. The significance of Sarah Baartman - BBC News 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But the “Whig school” mentality carries its own dangers. Why Americans Are So Angry About Everything 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Northern Whigs vanished and mostly turned Republican, along with former Democrats, Free Soilers, and North Americans who saw no other alternative to southern domination. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He noted drily that, despite his prodigious written output, he had "no enemies, except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians." Looking ahead to the 2016 Scottish Parliament elections - BBC News 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Whigs pounced, presenting Harrison as a frontier-dwelling “log cabin and hard cider” war hero. Wooing with whimsy 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Before yesterday, some Capitol Hill Republicans joked that the dead Daniel Webster, the Whig who served in the Senate before the Civil War, could get more votes than the Florida House member. The Daily 202: Longtime Hillary speechwriter says she should be less scripted 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The strategy the Whigs ended up using wasn’t a formal strategy at all. The Election Season That Was Weirder Than 2016 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Below the Mason-Dixon line, most Whigs professed to become Know-Nothings and renamed themselves the American Party, running Millard Fillmore against Democrat James Buchanan. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z And if more conservatives, or libertarians, or Greens, or independents, or Whigs, or Californians, or art history majors, or single parents, or whoever are more attracted to the field as a result, then fine. How Do We Fix the Liberal Slant in Social Psychology? 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Left off the Whig ticket in 1852, Fillmore began to align himself with the Nativist Party, then better known as the “Know Nothings”. Donald Trump is an immigration Know-Nothing, and dangerous for Republicans | James Nevius 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Just ask a Quaker, a Tory, a Whig, a neoconservative, or the creator of Obamacare. Buckley, Vidal, and the “Queer” Question 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Despite their epic defeat, the Whigs learned from their failure. The Election Season That Was Weirder Than 2016 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z A fourth contestant emerged from a gathering of old-line Whigs, mostly from the Upper South, who called themselves the Constitutional Union Party. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Northern Whigs recoiled at the acquisitive U.S. objectives. America’s July 4 military nightmare: With our recent history, could we even beat the British today? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Fillmore’s most notable act as president was throwing his weight behind the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, which simultaneously angered northern liberal Whigs as well as some southerners in slave-holding states. Donald Trump is an immigration Know-Nothing, and dangerous for Republicans | James Nevius 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Its author, Abraham Lincoln, submitted the poem to Illinois Whig in 1847: What It Was Like Growing Up at Gettysburg 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The Whig Party was a motley crew — a bizarre coalition of the National Republican Party, leftover Federalists, opponents of Freemasonry and states’ rights activists. The Election Season That Was Weirder Than 2016 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Internal diversity drove sharp party rivalries there, preserved distinctions between Whig and Democrat through the late 1850s, and dampened the kind of feverish unanimity that gripped the Deep South. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Playing himself, the Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli says the Heathens, in their brief heyday, sounded “like the Who f----- the Clash.” Summer TV Preview 2015 | Every new show, the schedule for every returning show, and what's worth watching Many historians are strongly opposed to the so-called “Whig interpretation” of history, in which you look at the past and try to pick out the threads that lead to the present. Science's Path From Myth to Multiverse 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Republicans, weren't even on the political map until President Abraham Lincoln put them there by winning the 1860 election: "The Whigs collapsed, and the Republican Party replaced them," Levine says. Making Room for a Third Party in U.S. Elections 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Though the Whigs’ attempt to sway voters from Van Buren with no real consensus or policies failed, it actually managed to win a future election. The Election Season That Was Weirder Than 2016 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Freed from the objections of states’ rights purists, Republicans enacted key policies from the old Whig Party. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z This meant the Liberals - successors of the Whigs - had an entire patchwork quilt of local colours, too. The seats where Tories weren’t blue and Labour wasn’t red - BBC News 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z But I would argue that, when it comes to the history of science, a Whig interpretation is much more justifiable. Science's Path From Myth to Multiverse 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Not to say it hasn't been tried – Whigs, Federalists, Democrats, Free Soil and Liberty parties once roamed the political landscape. Making Room for a Third Party in U.S. Elections 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Even his aristocrats are Whig politicians, men who have, to use their own pet phrase, “gotten into harness,” surrendering freedom of action to the dull daily work of good government. Why Trollope Is Trending 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Republicans adopted many old Whig policies when states’ rights Democrats seceded. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z That passion for speaking brought him to Whig Hall, a Greek Revival building on Princeton’s gothic campus that houses the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the university’s 250-year-old debating club. Ted Cruz Honed Political Skills in Princeton Debate Club 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In 1834, whilst on holiday in Rome, Sir Robert Peel was invited by King William IV to form a minority government to replace the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne. Election 2015: Why do we have election manifestos? 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Before he reluctantly became a Republican, Abraham Lincoln was a lifelong Whig – a party founded in opposition to Andrew Jackson and in support of a strong and active central state…. Don't Know Much About History, Rick Perry edition 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, this action was seen by the Government’s detractors as outrageous and Sheridan, representing the Whig opposition, described the Bank as ‘an elderly lady in the City who had . . . unfortunately fallen into bad company’. Rand Paul Draws Liberal Fire As The Left Discovers Its Inner Love Of The Fed, Part One 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z A few, like Governor James L. Alcorn of Mississippi, had been Whig members of the antebellum elite who accepted the war’s outcome and wanted the South to start afresh. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On a recent afternoon in Whig Hall, students in suits preparing to debate under portraits of their precursors James Madison and Aaron Burr passed by a cluttered trophy case. Ted Cruz Honed Political Skills in Princeton Debate Club 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z It is nothing for the great Whig who has vanquished so many a foe over printing paper money to pay for foolish wars, tariffs and other unconstitutional obstructions of free commerce. CHARLES HURT: John Boehner elected Republican speaker with Daniel Webster in the House 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Whatever the cause, he’s confusing Abraham Lincoln – erstwhile Whig and promoter of a strong central government – for a strict Tenth Amendment devotee. Don't Know Much About History, Rick Perry edition 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Extending the list of timid pre-Civil War compromisers, Pierce was a Jackson Democrat from New Hampshire whom Whig foes called "doughface"—a northerner with southern principles. Worst Presidents: Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Most Whigs believed that the government should provide material support for economic development. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Born in a log cabin in central New York, Fillmore made his way to politics and the Whig Party via school teaching and the law. Worst Presidents: Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Joining the young Whig Party, he ran with popular war hero Harrison, and the ticket of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" trounced the Democratic candidates. Worst Presidents: John Tyler (1841-1845) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z The Whigs saw a good thing when they picked him as their candidate in 1848. Worst Presidents: Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Americans’ assumption of personal responsibility for their actions was a foundation stone of our civic culture, agreed upon by Federalists, Whigs, Republicans and Democrats. Personal Responsibility and Campus Assault The richest Americans were mostly Whigs, but the party won its most votes where the Market Revolution had improved opportunities for all citizens. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z More than three centuries after it was founded, and nearly 150 years after it folded, the Whig Party is aiming for a revival. Whigs aim to head back to Parliament 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z One fellow Whig accused Tyler of reviving "the condemned and repudiated doctrines and practices of the worst days of Jackson's rule." Worst Presidents: John Tyler (1841-1845) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In leading the Afghan Whigs to their first album of new songs in nearly 16 years, Greg Dulli has used the motivation of history to overcome the obstacles of compromise. The Afghan Whigs emerge closer than ever Millard Fillmore was the last Whig president, and took office after the death of President Taylor in 1850. 10 Shortest Stints in the Oval Office 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The circular angered speculators and Whigs cursed the president for another interference with the nation’s currency, but paper money remained popular and the “Flush Times” roared on. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Indeed they were exported to the first British empire where American Whigs supported the revolution of 1776 – typical Guardian readers – and many Tories fled to Canada. ‘Effing Tories’ give themselves a kick 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Old wedding pictures; women in fancy hats and fur tippets; a solemn girl in a frilled First Communion frock; old letters including a job offer with The Northern Whig newspaper; memory cards. Search for owners of lost photos 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z After a successful 2012 reunion tour, the Afghan Whigs went on hiatus with no further plans, but they were brought back together by the most unlikely of matchmakers: Usher. The Afghan Whigs emerge closer than ever Unlike the other vice presidents on this list who did not seek reelection, Fillmore threw his hat in the ring in 1852, but lost the Whig nomination to his secretary of state, Daniel Webster. 10 Shortest Stints in the Oval Office 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Many Americans of the 1830s did not think of the Whigs or Democrats as natural or inevitable. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On the other hand, conservative British Parliament members of the Whig Party were castigated by one observer for superstitiously worshipping Smith. A Nation of Shopkeepers 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Additionally, the white model of schooling was “thoroughly Whig and Puritan, a curriculum whose literary canon was aristocratic and European, a curriculum whose language was formal, academic.” Lulled Into Relatability For a sampling of the Afghan Whigs’ music, check out: The Afghan Whigs emerge closer than ever Although he started running for reelection in the 1844 campaign, he withdrew his candidacy in August due to insufficient support from the Whig party. 10 Shortest Stints in the Oval Office 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The presumed candidates of the two major parties were Democrat Martin Van Buren and Whig Henry Clay. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Whigs’ reunion may have been largely overlooked, but they’re one of the few nostalgia acts to have returned with a compelling album of new material. The Song of the Summer just can’t be ‘Fancy.’ Here 8 under-the-radar alternatives. There might even be talk about whether or not the Republican Party might go the way of the Whig Party, and political observers would surely reassert that Clinton would be the next president. Nothing and Everything Is at Stake in the 2014 Senate Race 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z However, Jackson’s election, along with a broader policy debate between economic nationalists, who later became the Whig Party, and laissez-faire Democrats soon forced the issue. Money Matters: Speculation, Democracy, And The Forgotten Politics Of Monetary Policy 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Millard Fillmore, the last president who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican, supported the Constitutional Union Party, mostly former Whigs running on a platform of national harmony. When Lincoln saved the union and freed the slaves, five ex-presidents tried to stop him A small number of antislavery Whigs cast votes for James G. Birney of the Liberty Party, probably costing Clay the electoral votes of New York and Michigan, and thus the election itself. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Turnout was also up in Mr. Cochran’s strongest regions, the Jackson area and the establishment-friendly Mississippi Delta, which supported the Whigs when the region was dominated by aristocratic plantation interests. How Mississippi’s Runoff Defies Conventional Wisdom 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z That’s when the Republican Party emerged from the collapse of the Whigs. Ugly, paranoid, divisive politics: The GOP are all Know-Nothings now 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Establishment-friendly candidates, whether the Whigs of the 19th century or Mitt Romney more recently, tend to fair well in the lowlands, such as the Mississippi Delta, which were dominated by aristocratic plantation interests. Mississippi Primary Fight Is One of Geography as Well as Ideology 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The political labels of Whigs and Tories were also applied. John Hancock and Samuel Adams’ fascinating alliance: Family, economics and the road to the American Revolution 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z The lame-duck president had submitted an annexation treaty, but Senate Whigs denied him the votes he needed to ratify it. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z While the Whigs sat dormant and hibernating, Dulli evolved and flourished creatively. REVIEW: Afghan Whigs Reinvent Their Sound on New Album Do to the Beast 2014-04-11T16:04:49Z Several decades later, Abraham Lincoln—not even a Jeffersonian Republican, but first a Whig and then the candidate of a new and different Republican Party—turned to Jefferson as an unlikely ally. How the Presidents Judge One Another 2014-02-15T23:05:24Z He issued proceedings against Botanic Inns Ltd, the pub chain that owned the Northern Whig at the time. Man wins poppy discrimination case 2013-11-26T11:55:35Z "If the Republican Party sells America out one more time, a new party will be born, and the Republican Party will join the Whig Party in the Smithsonian Museum." A Republican house divided? 2013-10-22T18:48:41Z As an orthodox Jacksonian, he also wanted to reestablish the Independent Treasury that Martin Van Buren had obtained but a Whig Congress had later abolished. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Classic Whigs guitar leads are largely eschewed in favor of the same type of moody, densely layered arrangements that ride, crest, and crash like waves across Dulli’s Twilight Singers records. REVIEW: Afghan Whigs Reinvent Their Sound on New Album Do to the Beast 2014-04-11T16:04:49Z The bars he has retained are the Botanic Inn, Madisons Hotel, the King's Head, the Northern Whig, the Elms and the Fly. Nama deal secures Botanic Inns jobs 2013-05-14T14:47:29Z Ted Cooke won a declaration that the former owners of the Northern Whig pub acted unlawfully on the basis of his religious belief and political opinion. Man wins poppy discrimination case 2013-11-26T11:55:35Z Solomon Yue, a Republican congressman from Oregon, that if Republicans don't stand by their principles, they "could become Whigs". A Republican house divided? 2013-10-22T18:48:41Z Always less keen for expansion and less sure of the need for it, southern Whigs still resented the proviso’s moral stigma. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z And the answer is, yes, it is, in as much as Greg Dulli remains at the helm and chooses to label it a Whigs album. REVIEW: Afghan Whigs Reinvent Their Sound on New Album Do to the Beast 2014-04-11T16:04:49Z The businesses which have been sold are the Botanic Inn, Madisons Hotel, the Kings Head, the Northern Whig, the Elms and the Fly. Seven Botanic Inns bars to be sold 2013-05-13T19:05:07Z Before he was a Republican, Lincoln was a member of the Whig party, which espoused great internal improvements including public education, read: big government in today's speak. Lincoln: Spielberg's Civics Lesson 2013-02-21T06:40:00Z "The Republican Party was born because the Whig Party would not stand up for all Americans," for the Tea Party Network website. A Republican house divided? 2013-10-22T18:48:41Z The Whigs also sidestepped controversy by adopting no platform and nominating General Zachary Taylor for president. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z We also get to hear that more soulful Whigs sound hinted at by the aforementioned Lyons and Ocean covers. REVIEW: Afghan Whigs Reinvent Their Sound on New Album Do to the Beast 2014-04-11T16:04:49Z And while that warms the heart of my inner 19th-Century Whig, in an era of globalization, it’s not the Island’s best economic decision. The Baffling Economics Of The Island Of Sodor 2013-01-27T16:08:26Z Beside the goddess hangs a portrait of her unlikely messiah, Thomas Babington Macaulay, the British Whig historian and statesman who brought English education to India way back in the 1830s. English or Hinglish? India's choice 2012-11-27T00:02:50Z While the issue of slavery split the Whigs, today's Republicans generally agree on policy. A Republican house divided? 2013-10-22T18:48:41Z Attracting antislavery voters and disillusioned Whigs, they chose the governor of Massachusetts in 1854 and the majority of its legislature the following year, along with most of the elected officials in New England. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It’s not a very fruitful exercise to try to pinpoint exactly where The Twilight Singers end and The Afghan Whigs begin here, because, after all, Greg Dulli essentially is both of those projects. REVIEW: Afghan Whigs Reinvent Their Sound on New Album Do to the Beast 2014-04-11T16:04:49Z That was enough to take the Whig Party nomination - and win the White House. The cult of the US general 2012-11-14T00:27:54Z He was a consistent Whig, and was made a baronet eight days before his death. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The mere mention of his name seems to flash light upon the gulf we have traversed since the days when the world was divided between a Whig organ and a Tory organ. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Like Whigs before them, Republicans deplored such efforts as unprovoked aggression against weaker people, inspired by the lust for more plantations. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Suffice it to say, though, that those two bands conjoin on Do to the Beast, a worthwhile evolution that will still leave old-school Whigs fans longing for the days of Gentlemen. REVIEW: Afghan Whigs Reinvent Their Sound on New Album Do to the Beast 2014-04-11T16:04:49Z Sterne himself declares that his uncle wished him to write political paragraphs for the Whigs, that he detested such "dirty work," and got his uncle's hatred in return for his independence. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z While the Democrats in general were more inclined to western expansion than the Whigs, yet the slaveholders of the South were much more interested in Texas than in Oregon. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z It was rebuilt after the Great Fire, and has long been celebrated for the political banquets occasionally given there—this being considered the leading Tory Company, and the Fishmongers’ the leading Whig Company. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z They turned instead to so-called Conservatives—often members of the old Whig Party—who resisted secession initially, supported the Confederacy eventually, and felt entitled to lead their states without submitting to social change. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z One poem is a mournfully passionate appeal to O'Connell against the alliance with the Whigs, which was charged as one of the causes of the secession. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The country, at this time, was divided into Federalists and Democrats, who were scarcely less vindictive in their animosities, than the Whigs and Tories of the revolution. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z There is a picture of the Titans attempting to scale heaven, in which George III. figures as a comical Jupiter launching his thunder-bolts at the Whig Opposition. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z In politics he was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Many southern Whigs left their party for the Democrats, and southern rights supporters grew more vocal. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Some of the Whigs were about to refuse to drink it, but Mr. Adams whispered to them to comply, saying "we shall have an opportunity to return the compliment." The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z He has an utter contempt for dull men and timid or half-measure men, and he scorns Whigs even more than Tories. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The Tory footmen cast their votes for "Sir Thomas Morgan's servant," and the Whigs for "Mr. Strickland's man." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z In early life he had been a Whig and in Illinois had fought many a hard battle with the common enemy. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z In the Northeast, a sudden influx of immigrants troubled many Protestant voters and drew many Whigs into a movement against foreigners and Catholics. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He had never borne arms, he said, nor entered into any association, combination or subscription against the Whigs. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z The Tories positively outdid the Whigs in the struggle for the society of the simple seaman, the gallant guerilla. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z A writer in the Spectator alludes to this haunt of the Tories: "I was a Tory at Button's and a Whig at Child's." Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The Democrats had been watching their opportunity, and having secured a quorum with but few of the Whigs in the house, locked the doors and proposed to put their measure through. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Upholding economic and moral improvement, Whigs felt strong ties to evangelical Protestantism and lauded middle-class virtues that immigrants supposedly lacked such as industry, frugality, and temperance. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z He was denied promotion by the British Government because of his sympathy for the Whigs, and in 1783 he returned to Boston. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z "The Whigs have a fine opportunity," the other pursued. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z A prodigal and consequently indigent king, James had seen the formation of the opposite parties of Whigs and Tories. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z |
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