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    An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs is a book written by the Irish Whig MP and philosopher, Edmund Burke, published on 3 August 1791. Edmund Burke's...
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    Whiggism (redirect from Whigism)
    in power, Whigs frequently referred to all opponents as "Jacobites" or dupes of Jacobites. Whiggism originally referred to the Whigs of the British Isles...
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  • referring to themselves as "Whigs", a new system emerged with two separate opposition groups. The Rockingham Whigs claimed the mantle of Old Whigs as the purported...
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    Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791) An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791) Thoughts on French Affairs (1791) Remarks on the Policy...
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  • Whig Party became badly split between pro-Compromise Whigs like Fillmore and Webster and anti-Compromise Whigs like William Seward, who demanded the repeal...
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    library membership required.) Burke, Edmund (1962). An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. The Library of Liberal Arts. pp. 62–63. Franklin (1993),...
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    Henry Sacheverell (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    the Whig member of parliament Edmund Burke used the speeches of Whig leaders at the Sacheverell trial in his An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)...
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    and the Whig Party is that: Most Democrats were wholehearted supporters of expansion, whereas many Whigs (especially in the North) were opposed. Whigs welcomed...
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    William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (category Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain)
    to be his wish that his opinion should be as publicly known as possible". Upon reading Burke's An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, he wrote to him...
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    Richard Burke Jr. (category Members of the Middle Temple)
    the French émigré army on behalf of his father, who was indulging in private diplomacy. Thereafter he returned to Ireland to become an agent of the Catholic...
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