He was aggrieved by the course of General Cass, feeling assured that its direct effect would be to injure himself, and not to promote the political fortunes of the General.

But the rivalry continued to develop.

Cass remained in the field, a persistent candidate for nomination, and in the end proved to be, perhaps, the most powerful factor in the combination which secured the triumph of Polk.

He had deeply wounded Mr.Van Buren, and, as the latter thought, causelessly and cruelly.

He had disregarded a personal and political friendship of thirty years' duration, and had sundered ties which life was too short to re- unite.