1850 DANIEL WEBSTER. Says "There Were Good People on Both Sides" of Slavery Issue. Slavery Defeat of the Seminole Indians

Defeat of the Seminole Indians of Florida

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1850 DANIEL WEBSTER. Says "There Were Good People on Both Sides" of Slavery Issue. Slavery Defeat of the Seminole IndiansFascinating address before the Senate by the public orator of the period, Daniel Webster. Webster was maligned by the abolitionists of the North. He was from Massachusetts, where many of the most active and vigorous abolitionist organizations were based. And he was, on principle, opposed to slavery. That said, he viewed it as a secondary evil when compared to the union and unity of the United States. In the present discourse, he admits the wrong of