George Julian: “I knew he did not believe in the principles embodied in the platform.”

They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.

It was unrecognized by both parties, but it made its advent, and the men who pointed its way quietly served notice upon the country of their ulterior purposes.

It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.

The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real need of the hour; but here was the weak point of the Whigs.