They could not make a canvass upon the one in the South and upon the other in the North.

General Scott had indeed heartily assented to all the principles proclaimed at the convention, but so long as Horace Greeley was eulogizing him in the "Tribune," and Seward supporting him on the stump, it was idle to present him as an acceptable candidate to slave-holding Whigs in the South.

Supporting the candidate and spitting on the platform became the expressive if inelegant watchword of many Northern Whigs, but for every Whig vote which this phrase kept to his party allegiance in the free States, it drove two over to the Democracy in the slave States.

Moreover, spitting on the platform, however effective as an indication of contempt, would not satisfy the conscience or the prejudices of large numbers of Whigs who voted directly for the candidates of the Free-soil party, John P.
Hale of New Hampshire for President, and George W.Julian of Indiana for Vice-President.
DEFEAT OF THE WHIG PARTY.
Weakened by personal strife, hopelessly divided on questions of principle, the Whig party was led to the slaughter.

Carrying in 1840 every State but seven for Harrison, failing to elect Mr.Clay in 1844 only by the loss of New York, triumphantly installing Taylor in 1848, the Whigs were astounded to find that their candidate had been successful in but four States of the Union, and that twenty- seven States had by large majorities pronounced for General Pierce.
Massachusetts and Vermont in the North, Kentucky and Tennessee in the South, had alone remained true to the Whig standard.