History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1956 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Webster's Seventh of March
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The idea
Daniel Webster answered days later, saying that he spoke not as a Massachusetts man, not as a Northern man, but as an American.
In practice
Webster telling the South to stop threatening disunion and the North to stop pressing the Wilmot Proviso.
Where people slip
Like Calhoun, he called for new federal fugitive slave laws, and abolitionists denounced him as a traitor for it.
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