Though he gave in the end a quiet vote at the polls for Taylor, he stubbornly refused during the campaign to open his lips or write a word in favor of his election.
Mr.Webster, though without the keen personal disappointment of Mr.Clay, was equally discontented with the nomination.

He had spoken in a semi-public way for several months previous to the convention, of the folly of nominating "a swearing, swaggering, frontier colonel" for the Presidency,--an allusion to General Taylor, which was scandalously unjust, and which was contradicted by his whole life.

When Taylor was finally nominated, Mr.Webster resented the selection as an indignity to the statesmen of the Whig party.

His only ray of comfort was the defeat of Abbott Lawrence for the Vice-Presidency by Millard Fillmore.

Mr.Lawrence was a man of wealth, the most prominent manufacturer at the time in the country, of high personal character, and of wide political influence.
He was the leading Taylor-Whig in New England, and his course had given offense to Mr.Webster to such an extent indeed, that on a public occasion, after the Presidential election, he referred to Mr.Lawrence in an unfriendly and discourteous manner.
The situation became still further complicated.