I do not think so.

The forces on both sides who were bringing on that conflict were too powerful to be subdued by the influence of any individual statesman.

The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
But Mr.Webster's attitude not only estranged him from the supporters of General Taylor in his own party, but, of course, made an irreparable breach between him and the anti-slavery men who had founded the Free Soil Party.

He was the chief target for all anti-slavery arrows from March 7, 1850, to his death.
When I was in the Harvard Law School, Mr.Webster was counsel in a very interesting divorce case where Choate was upon the other side.

The parties were in high social position and very well known.