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measures, united in presenting the name of General Winfield Scott, of Virginia, to the convention as their favorite for the presidency. Scott had himself opposed the settlement and was still regarded as being among the allot divided between Fillmore, 16; Webster, 29, and Scott, 130. The final vote ended in the nomination of ScoScott by defection from the Fillmore ranks, a nomination which proved to be unfortunate, chiefly on account of the suspicion that Scott was not heartily in sympathy with the compromise. Mr. Blaine suggests, with political sh the Democratic ranks. （Blaine, vol. 1, p. 104.) Scott was defeated by the course of his most prominent sup platform of their party, many of these advocates of Scott's election ruined his candidacy. The Free Soil pamaterial of a new hostile, determined organization. Scott's friends, angered by their stinging defeat; the adh which power might be regained. The Whig vote for Scott was 1,386,580; the agitators' vote for Hale was only