1. "If thee has an ambition for distinction ..." -- 2. The Trojan horse. -- 3. Buffalonian. -- 4. A new departure. -- 5. Antimason into Whig. -- 6. Nascent rebellion. -- 7. At the altar of Mammon. -- 8. Nativism and defeat. -- 9. The comptrollership: marking time. -- 10. The road back to Washington. -- 11. "We could put up a cow ..." -- 12. Toward the compromise of 1850. -- 13. President Fillmore wrecks the omnibus. -- 14. Warfare: the bolt of the "Silver Greys". -- 15. The great silence. -- 16. The lure of the East. -- 17. Fillmore obstructs Manifest Destiny. -- 18. Self-sacrifice: "The hopes of good men." -- 19. Webster and the Baltimore convention. -- 20. Retirement to grief. -- 21. National Whigs find a host. -- 22. Candidate of the know-nothings. -- 23. Spectator. -- 24. First citizen of Buffalo
