The long-continued depression produced the revolution against the Democratic party which ended in the overthrow of Mr.Van Buren and the election of General Harrison as President of the United States in 1840.

The Whig Congress that came into power at the same time, proceeded to enact the law popularly known as the tariff of 1842, which was strongly protective in its character though not so extreme as the Act of 1828.

The vote in favor of the bill was not exclusively Whig, as some of the Northern Democrats voted for it and some of the Southern Whigs against it.

Conspicuous among the former were Mr.Buchanan of Pennsylvania and Mr.Wright of New York, who maintained a consistency with their vote for the tariff of 1828.

Conspicuous among Southern Whigs against it were Berrien of Georgia, Clayton of Delaware, Mangum of North Carolina, Merrick of Maryland, and Rives of Virginia.
The two men who above all others deserve honor for successful management of the bill were George Evans, the brilliant and accomplished senator from Maine, and Thomas M.T.McKennan, for many years an able, upright, and popular representative from Pennsylvania.