Elementi essenziali della storia degli Stati Uniti . dministration vecchi leaderspassed politico lontano. I nuovi dirigenti si alzò e che è venuto a essere classedas cither joro-schiavitù o anti-schiavitù degli uomini. In uno handwere Jefferson Davis del Mississippi, Alexander H. Stephens ofGeorgia e Stephen A. Douglas di Illinois; e sul otherwere William H. Seward di New York, salmone P. Chase ofOhio, e Charles Sumner del Massachusetts. Douglas wasnot, strettamente parlando, un pro-schiavitù leader, anche se egli è stato soconsidered da molti anti-schiavitù degli uomini. 316. Discorso del Webster. - Daniel Webster consegnati nel Senato il 7

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Essentials of United States history . dministration the older political leaderspassed away. New leaders rose up who came to be classedas cither joro-slavery or anti-slavery men. On the one handwere Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, Alexander H. Stephens ofGeorgia, and Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois; and on the otherwere William H. Seward of New York, Salmon P. Chase ofOhio, and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Douglas wasnot, strictly speaking, a pro-slavery leader, though he was soconsidered by many anti-slavery men. 316. Speech of Webster. — Daniel Webster delivered inthe Senate, on the 7th of March, 1850, a memorable speechin which he opposed the Wilmot Proviso and defended theFugitive Slave Law. This speech, his last great effort, wasvariously interpreted. Some thought that he apologized forslavery and had deserted his Northern fiiends and his prin-ciples; others believed that he made a bid for the Southernfavor to help him to the presidency. And still others thought TAYLOR AND FILLMORES ADMINISTRATION (1849-1853) 251. that he aimed only to harmonize the views of the Northand the South. Viewed in the broader light of this laterday, it seems probable that hewas greatly influenced by hisfear of secession. But, what-ever his motives, the speechseriously injured his influence.It offended the great mass ofthe Northern people, and Web-ster never regained his formerpopularity. He was not nomi-nated for the presidency in1852. He died in October ofthat same year, a disappointedman. 317. Presidential Electionnominated Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, and WilliamR. King of Alabama, TheWhigs named General WinfieldScott of Virginia, and WilliamA. Graham of North Carolina.The Free Soilers nominatedJohn P. Hale of New Hamp-shire, and George W. Julianof Indiana. The Wliig partycarried only four states fortheir candidates. Pierce andKing received the electoral votes of the other twenty-seven Millard Fillmore. states and were elected. This election was the death warrant of the W

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