As to the infamy of making the national capital a great slave-mart, he has nothing to say--although it was a matter which figured as one of the elements in Mr.Clay's scheme.
But what most shocked the North in this connection were his utterances in regard to the Fugitive Slave Law.

There can be no doubt that under the Constitution the South had a perfect right to claim the extradition of fugitive slaves.

The legal argument in support of that right was excellent, but the Northern people could not feel that it was necessary for Daniel Webster to make it.

The Fugitive Slave Law was in absolute conflict with the awakened conscience and moral sentiment of the North.

To strengthen that law, and urge its enforcement, was a sure way to make the resistance to it still more violent and intolerant.