Was ever money so well expended?
That grand old lion, Joshua R.Giddings, had also passed through the mob, and as I went with him to be presented to President Taylor, a woman in the crowd stepped back, drew away her skirts, and with a snarl exclaimed, "A pair of abolitionists!" The whole air of Freedom's capital thrilled and palpitated with hatred of her and her cause.

On the question of the pending Fugitive Slave Bill, the feeling was intense and bitterly partisan, although not a party measure.

Mr.Taylor, the Whig President, had pronounced the bill an insult to the North, and stated his determination to veto it.
Fillmore, the Vice-President, was in favor of it.

So, Freedom looked to a man owning three hundred slaves, while slavery relied on "a Northern man with Southern principles." President Taylor was hated by the South, was denounced as a traitor to his section, while Southern men and women fawned upon and flattered Fillmore.

Webster, the great Whig statesman of the North, had bowed the knee to Baal, while Col.