There was a great deal of what in modern phase would be called "fencing for position" in the votes on this test question of the day.

The names of no less than five gentlemen who were afterwards Presidents of the United States were recorded in the yeas and nays on the passage of the bill in the two Houses,--Mr.Van Buren, General Harrison, John Tyler, in the Senate, and Mr.Polk and Mr.Buchanan in the House.
There was a general feeling that the Act of 1828 marked a crisis in the history of tariff discussion, and that it would in some way lead to important results in the fate of political parties and political leaders.

Mr.Calhoun was this year elected Vice-President of the United States, with General Jackson as President, and Mr.
Van Buren was transferred from the Senate to the State Department as the head of Jackson's cabinet.

When by his address and tact he had turned the mind of the President against Calhoun as his successor, and fully ingratiated himself in executive favor, the quarrel began which is elsewhere detailed at sufficient length.

In this controversy, purely personal at the outset, springing from the clashing ambitions of two aspiring men, the tariff of 1828, especially with the vote of Mr.Van Buren in favor of it, was made to play an important part.