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Conservatives. The advocacy of an extensive specie currency, and the proposition for a sub-treasury, in 1837, alienated many of the Democratic party, and they formed a powerful faction known as Conservatives. They finally joined the Whigs, and, in 1840, assisted them materially in electing General Harrison President.