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JOHN TYLER 63 famous resolution to censure the president he voted in the affirmative. In the course of 1835 the seriousness of the schism in the Democratic party was fully revealed. Not only had the small body of nullifiers broken away, under the lead of Cal- houn, but a much larger party was formed in the southern states under the appellation of "state- rights Whigs." They differed with the National Republicans on the fundamental questions of tariff, bank, and internal improvements, and agreed with them only in opposition to Jackson as an alleged violator of the constitution. Even in this opposi tion they differed from the party of Webster and Clay, for they grounded it largely upon a theory of state rights which the latter statesmen had been far from accepting. The "state-rights Whigs" now nominated Hugh L. White, of Tennessee, for president, and John Tyler for vice-president. The National Republicans, wishing to gather votes from the other parties, nominated for presi dent Gen. William H. Harrison as a more color less candidate than Webster or Clay. The Demo cratic followers of Jackson nominated Van Buren, who received a large majority of both popular and electoral votes, in spite of the defections above men tioned. There was a great deal of bolting in this election. Massachusetts threw its vote for Web ster for president, and South Carolina for Willie P. Mangum. Virginia, which voted for Van