The dispute was then transferred to his party, and grew more angry day by day until Tyler was driven for political shelter and support to the Democratic Party, which had opposed his election.
Mr.Fillmore had not been on good terms with General Taylor's Administration, and when he succeeded to the Presidency he made haste to part with the illustrious Cabinet he found in power.

He accepted their resignations at once, and selected heads of departments personally agreeable to himself and in political harmony with his views.

He did not desert his party, but he passed over from the anti-slavery to the pro-slavery wing, defeated the policy of his predecessor, secured the enactment of the Fugitive-slave Law, and neutralized all efforts to prohibit the introduction of slavery in the Territories.

In this course Mr.Fillmore had the support of the great leaders of the party, Mr.Clay and Mr.Webster, but he disregarded the young Whigs who under the lead of Mr.Seward were proclaiming a new political dispensation in harmony with the advancing public opinion of the world.

Mr.Fillmore did not leave his party, but he failed to retain the respect and confidence of the great mass of Northern Whigs; and his administration came to an end in coldness and gloom for himself, and with the defeat, and practically the destruction, of the party which had chosen him to his high place four years before.