Millard Fillmore was defined as a dull, handsome, dignified man who understood the political importance of flexibility, and was form New York. He supported the compromise and used his powers of persuasion to swing northern Wings into line. Stephen A. Douglas’s first step after the departure of Clay was to destroy the “omnibus bill”, which Clay had envisioned as a great, comprehensive solution to the sectional crisis and to introduce instead a series of separate measures to be voted on one by one. As a result, by mid-September Congress had enacted and the president had signed all the components of the compromise. The Compromise of 1850 was not a product of widespread agreement on common national ideal like the Missouri Compromise, but rather a victory of self-interests. Fillmore called it a just settlement of the sectional problem, “in its character final and irrevocable”. This was one of Fillmore’s only accomplishments, and some more militant northern Whigs remained irreconcilable, refusing to forgive Fillmore for having signed the Fugitive Slave Act. They helped deprive him of the Presidential nomination in 1852, thus effectively ending his political career.