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That year, as Blumenthal pointedly notes, both the Democrat and
Whig platforms endorsed the Fugitive Slave Act, effectively disenfranchising the many Northerners opposed to it.
De Krey's analysis of party politics also includes a prosopographical examination of the
Whig and Tory party leadership.
But the old order, in yielding place to new, did not entirely disappear, and Tombs suggests that it was the very persistence, in Reformed,
Whig England, of the older cultural strain--it might be called the Tory strain--that kept the country from becoming Dickens's Coketown writ large.
Henry Care, a prominent
Whig, included a section on grand juries in his
That was the precise number he got, amid harsh rumors of ballot fraud and laments from
Whig newspapers like Worcester's Massachusetts Spy that financial disaster was imminent with the Democrats in power.
Although Butterfield was still wrestling with an older generation of
Whig historians, his critical observations seem equally relevant for the present.
In 1806, Grey, by then Lord Howick, became leader of the
Whigs. A year later, he entered the Lords, succeeding his father as Earl Grey.
Hampshire's poor rates were 7 shillings on the pound, which
Whig Frederic Eden considered to be "excessively high" (195).
However, he was not simply a Foxite
Whig. While Fox despised political economy for its speculative nature, Malthus admired Adam Smith's new economic science for its practical use.
Although Joseph Lister had a huge impact in the field of surgery with his method of antisepsis, the commonly told account of its development, where Lister is portrayed as the only important character in the story as he virtually 'single handedly revolutionised modern surgery' (Granshaw 1992), may be an example of
whig history.
In making this claim, he rejects what historians might call a "
whig" approach to human rights history--a historical narrative that reveals a clear evolutionary path toward progress.
The next section provides the evidence for my skepticism by offering an account of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753, so named after its chief architect and sponsor, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, the period's most prominent Court
Whig statesman and proponent of natural law.
Their vehicle, the Free Soil Party, ran the former Jacksonian Martin Van Buren of New York for president against the candidates of the national Democratic and
Whig Parties on a platform that barred the extension of slavery to the territorial spoils of a recent war with Mexico.
