The anti-masonic schism still distracted the opposition.

The Kentucky leaders were jealous of Mr.Webster, and thought him "no such man" as their idol Henry Clay.

They admitted his greatness and his high traits of character, but they thought his ambition mixed with too much self-love.

Governor Letcher wrote to Mr.Crittenden in 1836 that Clay was more elevated, disinterested and patriotic than Webster, and that the verdict of the country had had a good effect on the latter.

Despite the interest and enthusiasm which Mr.Webster aroused in the West, he had no real hold upon that section or upon the masses of the people and the Western Whigs turned to Harrison.