Show Silver Grays Silver grays In politics was a term applied to the whigs of New York who supported tho administration tion of President Flllmore and regarded re-garded the slavery question settled by the compromise of 1850 A convention conven-tion of the administration was held at Syracuse Sept 27 1850 to secure a vindication of tho Presidents policy etc Tho convention resulted In an emphatic majority against tho admin Istratlon whereupon tho chairman tlr Granger and several other administration ad-ministration men left the convention as they were elderly men they with their following wero Immediately dubbed silver prays |