Taylor was elected by the vote of New York, which except for the division in the party would have gone to Cass.

There was no longer any doubt of the fact that a political force had arisen which could no longer be ignored by the ruling parties.

One of the parties must either support the new issue or give place to a party which would do so.
A political party for the defense of liberty was the fulfillment of the aspirations of all earnest anti-slavery men and of all abolitionists not of the radical Garrisonian persuasion.

The national anti-slavery societies were for the most part limited in their operations to the Atlantic seaboard.

The West organized local and state associations with little reference to the national association.