But his course of action after the convention cannot be passed over without comment.

He refused to give his adhesion to General Scott's nomination, and he advised his friends to vote for Mr.Pierce, because the Whigs were divided, while the Democrats were unanimously determined to resist all attempts to renew the slavery agitation.

This course was absolutely indefensible.

If the Whig party was so divided on the slavery question that Mr.Webster could not support their nominee, then he had no business to seek a nomination at their hands, for they were as much divided before the convention as afterwards.

He chose to come before that convention, knowing perfectly well the divisions of the party, and that the nomination might fall to General Scott.