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Example sentences for: whigs
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In the antebellum era, New England-based Conscience Whigs denounced the North's pro-South Cotton Whigs as corrupt.
Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.
The tories form a party which are [sic] charged with supporting more arbitrary principles in government than the Whigs, their opponents.
The progressives, like their predecessors among the Mugwumps--the independent-minded Republicans who spurned their party's presidential candidate in 1884--and Liberal Republicans and Whigs and Federalists, have long favored fiscal conservatism.
Johnson's terse and narrow definition reveals his Tory opposition to the Whigs, who normally were the government.