The world: historical and actual . a protectionist and a leading statesman during thesecond quarter of the present century, came gradu-ally to adopt the veiws of Cobden, Bright and Mar-tiueau. From that time on, the national sentiment,with great unanimity, has been hostile to the doc-trine of protection, and at one time the indicationswere that the enlightened sentiment of the civilizedworld was undergoing substantially the same pro-cess of change wrought in the mind of Peel; butat the present time France and the United States Whiggs, or Whigs. The term Tory is of Irish ori-gin, and was first
The world: historical and actual . a protectionist and a leading statesman during thesecond quarter of the present century, came gradu-ally to adopt the veiws of Cobden, Bright and Mar-tiueau. From that time on, the national sentiment,with great unanimity, has been hostile to the doc-trine of protection, and at one time the indicationswere that the enlightened sentiment of the civilizedworld was undergoing substantially the same pro-cess of change wrought in the mind of Peel; butat the present time France and the United States Whiggs, or Whigs. The term Tory is of Irish ori-gin, and was first applied to Catholic outlaws in thereign of Charles II. About the time that the roy-alists dubbed their opponents Whigs, the latter re-torted by applying to their adversaries another noless opprobrious nickname. Gradually each partycame to take pride in its name, and all sense of re-proach was lost sight of. It was within the presentgeneration, and in designation of their respectivecharacters, that the two parties came to be known. % s mMi
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