...insisted on a cordial support of the finality platforms or acquiesced in silence. Politicians, even those who had been noted for antislavery professions, assumed the degrading obligations imposed at Baltimore . The New York Barnburners—W. C. Bryant, B. F. Butler, John Van Buren, S. J. Tilden, and H. B. Stanton—turned their backs on those noble protests for freedom which made 1848 an illustri...