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From the Albany Eveing Journal If Whigs are impelled to review the past, it is that they may draw from the retrospect lessons for the future. The Campaign of 1852 left the Whig party overthrown ...

The Whig party was founded in 1834 principally to oppose Andrew Jackson. It supported protective tariffs, a central bank and federally funded infrastructure development.

THE OLD WHIG PARTY LETTER FROM MR. FILLMORE. Share full article. May 12, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 12, 1860, Page 10 Buy Reprints.

The party took its name from the British Whigs, themselves formed to provide a legislative counterpoint to powerful executive rule, in their case the monarchy.

By contrast, the Whig Party believed that national progress should come through expansion over time — focusing on internal economic development rather than territorial expansion.

This difference became especially pronounced by the 1830s, when a growing divide between Andrew Jackson’s Democratic party and the opposition Whig party came to define the American political debate.

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