Without a dissenting voice the convention resolved that "all efforts of the Abolitionists or others to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences." The Compromise measures, including the fugitive-slave law, which was specially named, were most heartily indorsed, and were regarded as an adjustment of the whole controversy.
By way of indicting how full, complete, and final the settlement was, the convention with unrestrained enthusiasm declared that "the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempts may be made." Among the men who joined in these declarations were not a few who had supported Van Buren and Adams in the canvass of 1848.

One of the prominent officers of the convention was the author of many of the most extreme anti- slavery declarations put forth at Buffalo.
WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION.
The Whigs met at Baltimore a fortnight after the Democratic convention had adjourned.

The slavery question, upon which the Democrats of all shades had so cordially coalesced, was to the Whigs a dividing sword.

Mr.Fillmore was a candidate, supported with almost entire unanimity by the Southern Whigs.

Mr.Webster was a candidate, and though in his fear for the Union he had sacrificed more than any other man for the South, he could secure no Southern support.
General Scott was a candidate, and though born and reared in Virginia, he was supported by anti-slavery Whigs of every shade in the North, against the two men of Northern birth and Northern associations.