Excerpt from The Leading Orators of Twenty-Five Campaigns, From the First Presidential Canvass to the Present Time: Portraits, Reminiscences, and Biographical Sketches of America's Distinguished Political Speakers; A Concise History of Political Parties in the United States, Together With a Chronological Presentation of Presidential and Vice-Presidential Nominees Whig and Tory then became the respective party designations, after factions which bore those appellations in England. The former wished to remain colonists with guaranteed rights, while the latter were willing to continue that relation under such dispensation as the Crown saw fit to extend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.