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By 1838, the “blessed spirit” was virtually defunct, but its electoral base and crusading energy had become vital components of northern Whiggery.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Theory of the Presidency Whiggery has its virtues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ferrier was an enormous reader, most variously accomplished; while his political Whiggery was balanced by a restless scepticism in philosophy and religion.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Our Borough has just been thrown into a state of stupefaction by an event which completely eclipses every other act of crime and villainy with which the annals of Whiggery abound.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

If those mystic figures signalize the birthday of Whiggery, in the political world, in much the same way we may date the constitution of the Cambrian, as we know it to-day, from the year 1864. 

From The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway by Gasquoine, C. P. (Charles Penrhyn)