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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 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.

“They’re gonna have to get over it, or they’re gonna be the Whigs,” Maher reacted, referring to the Whig Party that collapsed in the 1850s. Filed under. bill maher ...

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.

In 1854, in Ripon, Wisconsin; Jackson, Michigan; and Aurora, a new, rather centrist Republican Party emerged to oppose the extension of slavery to the North, replacing a Whig Party divided on the ...