"The Whig ideological position, instigated to a high degree by the Junto again, reflected intensified Whig concerns for the Continental land war to contain French aggression and for the revolution settlement, both of which were threatened by a resurgent Toryism. The war had been ended before the last general election of the reign but, according to Whiggism, not before the possibility of a French hegemony in Europe had been eliminated. Whigs charged that the French, supposedly the losers, had gotten better concessions than the victors because Tories schemed thereby to restore the Pretender, popery, and French absolutism on the queen's death. Especially vital to Whiggism of 1713 was opposition to the trade with France which the ministry had wanted and lost in a parliamentary vote."
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James O. Richards, Party Propaganda Under Queen Anne: The General Elections of 1702–1713 (1972), p. 155
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