On a question of bread, the half-loaf is preferable to starvation, but when political honor and deep personal feeling are involved, so material an adjustment is not practicable.

The Barnburners retired from the convention, disclaimed all responsibility for its conclusions, and proceeded in due time to organize against the ticket of Cass and Butler.
The Hunkers, left in the convention as the sole representatives of the New-York Democracy, were startled at the situation and declined to vote.

They were anxious that the nomination of Cass should not appear to be forced on the Barnburners by the rival faction.

It thus happened that New York, which for twenty years under the skillful leadership of Mr.Van Buren had dictated the course of the Democracy, was now so shorn of influence through the factions engendered by his defeat, that a Presidential nomination was made, not only without her lead, but without her aid or participation.
CASS BOLTED BY VAN BUREN'S FRIENDS.
The Democratic candidate was a man of high character.

He had served creditably in the early part of the war of 1812, had been governor of Michigan Territory from 1813 to 1831, had been five years Secretary of War under General Jackson, and had gone to France as minister in 1836.