President Buchanan's lieutenant, William Bigler, of Pennsylvania, essayed to ride the storm and steer to a Southern victory.

But he only succeeded in securing a recommittal of both platforms to the committee.

Nothing, however, was gained by the manoeuvre.

Saturday afternoon the committee once more reported the same disagreement in slightly changed phraseology;[6] two antagonistic platforms, presenting the same sharp difference of principle--one demanding Congressional intervention, the other declaring against it.
Then the parliamentary storm was unloosed for the remainder of that day with such fury that the chairman declared his physical inability to continue a contest with six hundred gentlemen as to who should cry the loudest, and threatened to leave the chair.

On Monday, April 30, the seventh day of the convention, a final decision was reached.