The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.

After the Tories fell from power with the death of Queen Anne, Defoe continued doing intelligence work for the Whig government, writing " Tory " pamphlets that actually undermined the Tory point of view.

Indeed, Lord Aberdeen's own dislike of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, the rejection of which he failed to secure in 1851, prevented him from joining the government of Whig government of Lord John Russell in 1851.

Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

This brought an end to the Russell Whig government and set the stage for a general election in July 1852 which eventually brought the Conservatives to power in a minority government under the Earl of Derby.

Lord Russell was the leader of the Whig Party, the largest group in the coalition government.

As Prime Minister of the Peelite / Whig coalition government, the Earl of Aberdeen eventually led Britain into war on the side of the French / Ottomans against the Russian Empire.

Following the dissolution of the Republican Party in 1876, the True Whig Party dominated the Liberian government until the 1980 coup, eventually creating what was effectively a one-party state.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

The Republicans who formed the Whig party, led by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, drew on a Jeffersonian tradition of compromise and balance in government, national unity, territorial expansion, and support for a national transportation network and domestic manufacturing.

Clay and his Whig allies failed in repeated attempts to continue the Second Bank of the United States, which Jackson denounced as a monopoly and from which he abruptly removed all government deposits.

Moreover, the Whig ministry that had lent its support to the war fell, and the new Tory government that replaced it sought peace.

After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, the King was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government.

His early ministry was largely Tory, but gradually the government came to be dominated by the so-called Junto Whigs, a group of younger Whig politicians who led a tightly organised political grouping.

The Jacobite Uprising of 1715 discredited much of the Tory party as traitorous Jacobites, and Whig control of the levers of power ( e. g., through the Septennial Act ) ensured that the Whigs became the dominant party of government.

The Whigs were opposed by the government of Lord North, which they accused of being a " Tory " administration, although it largely consisted of individuals previously associated with the Whigs — many old Pelhamites, as well as the Whig faction formerly led by the Duke of Bedford, and elements of that which had been led by George Grenville, although it also contained elements of the " Kings ' Men ", the group formerly associated with Lord Bute and which was generally seen as Tory-leaning.

This new Tory Ministry was a minority government, however, and depended on Whig goodwill for its continued existence.

Two rival delegations — one Whig and the other Democrat — had been certified as elected by different branches of the New Jersey government.

Caroline struck up a friendship with politician Sir Robert Walpole, a former minister in the Whig government who led a disgruntled faction of the party.

In 1733 Lord Burlington resigned his positions within the government and went into active opposition against Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister who was regarded as corrupting British politics and Whig values.

Perhaps one great testament to Fox's character is that subscriptions to the old Whig club of Brooks's would decline on the rare occasions when he was called away to government office, because one of the prime entertainments would no longer be available.

: For twenty years junior minister in a Tory government, he became the most successful of Whig Foreign Secretaries ; though always a Conservative, he ended his life by presiding over the transition from Whiggism to Liberalism.

Palmerston's reputation as an interventionist and his unpopularity with the Queen and other Whig grandees was such that when Lord John Russell attempted in December 1845 to form a ministry, the combination failed because Lord Grey refused to join a government in which Palmerston should resume the direction of foreign affairs.

A member of the Whig Party, he backed significant reform of the British government and was among the primary architects of the Reform Act 1832.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

He was the only Whig in the Illinois delegation, but he showed his party loyalty by participating in almost all votes and making speeches that echoed the party line.

Irreconcilable disagreements over slavery ended the Whig and Know Nothing parties, and split the Democratic Party between North and South, while the new Republican Party angered slavery interests by demanding an end to its expansion.

Johnson won the election by 2, 250 votes, some of which were Whig votes received in return for his promise to support Nathaniel Taylor for his prior seat in Congress.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

Kidd's Whig backers were embarrassed by his trial.

However, in the UK, the symbolism ends there, since the real governing authority of the monarch was all but extinguished by the Whig revolution of 1688-89 ( see Glorious Revolution ).

Polk was the surprise ( dark horse ) candidate for president in 1844, defeating Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party by promising to annex Texas.

Leaving Congress in 1839, Polk became a candidate in the Tennessee gubernatorial election, defeating the incumbent Whig, Newton Cannon by about 2, 500 votes, out of about 105, 000.

In the presidential election of 1840, Van Buren was overwhelmingly defeated by a popular Whig, William Henry Harrison.

It gave the Whig Party a unifying message of denouncing the war as an immoral act of aggression carried out through abuse of power by the president.

Kentucky Whig Archibald Dixon believed that unless the Missouri Compromise was explicitly repealed, slaveholders would be reluctant to move to the new territory until slavery was actually approved by the settlers, settlers who would most likely hold free-soil views.

Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.

Jefferson's republican political principles were strongly influenced by the 18th-century British opposition writers of the Whig Party.

Conservatism emerged by the end of the 18th century — which synthesised moderate Whig positions and some of the old Tory values to create a new political ideology, in opposition to the French Revolution.

The Whig Party recovered its strength and unity by supporting moral reforms, especially the reform of the electoral system, the abolition of slavery and emancipation of the Catholics.

The Whig Party straddled the issue and sank to its death after the overwhelming electoral defeat by Franklin Pierce in the 1852 presidential election.

In general, commercial and manufacturing towns and cities voted Whig, save for strongly Democratic precincts in Irish Catholic and German immigrant communities ; the Democrats often sharpened their appeal to the poor by ridiculing the Whigs ' aristocratic pretensions.

The Compromise of 1850 had been first proposed by the Whig Henry Clay of Kentucky.

Whig Representative Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio was particularly distraught by the defeat, exclaiming, " We are slain.