[Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) by James Gillespie Blaine]@TWC D-Link bookTwenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) CHAPTER V 30/63
Mr.Corwin to the surprise of his friends had passed over from the most radical to the ultra-conservative side on the slavery question, and it was his change, in addition to that of Mr.Webster, which had given so brilliant an opportunity to Mr. Seward as the leader of the Northern Whigs.
Mr.Corwin was irretrievably injured by a course so flatly in contradiction of his previous action.
He lost the support and largely forfeited the confidence of the Ohio Whigs, who in 1848 had looked upon him as a possible if not probable candidate for the Presidency. But against this surrender to the Compromise measures of 1850, the Whigs who followed Seward and Wade and Thaddeus Stevens and Fessenden were earnest and active.
Stevens was then a member of the House and had waged bitter war against the measures.
Wade and Fessenden had not yet entered the Senate, but were powerful leaders in their respective States.
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