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But Webster's role in this context was only to tarnish the image of the Tories and brighten that of the Whigs.
In 18th century England, Tories and Whigs were engaged in a battle of rhetoric, each group claiming monopoly of the custodianship of constitutional democracy and national tradition.
Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.
Here Johnson confers on the Tories the distinction of being the true representatives of English politics and religion, although one should not forget that the Whigs, too, believed in the constitution of the state equally well and used the same rhetoric for their own publicity.
In retrospect, it is obvious that what social historian Mary P. Ryan has dubbed the pre-Civil War "era of association," from the 1820s to the 1840s, coincided with the spread of adult male suffrage and the emergence of competitive, mass-mobilizing parties: first the Jacksonian Democrats, then the Whigs, and finally, the Free Soilers and the Republicans.