Many of their eminent men have a permanent place in our history.

Others, with less national renown, were recognized at home as possessing equal power.
In their training, in their habits of mind, in their pride and independence, in their lack of discipline and submission, they were perhaps specially fitted for opposition, and not so well adapted as men of less power, to the responsibility and detail of administration.

But an impartial history of American statesmanship will give some of the most brilliant chapters to the Whig party from 1830 to 1850.

If their work cannot be traced in the National statute-books as prominently as that of their opponents, they will be credited by the discriminating reader of our political annals as the English of to-day credit Charles James Fox and his Whig associates--for the many evils which they prevented.
[* Baillie Peyton is erroneously described as uniting with the South.

He remained true to the Union throughout the contest.].