The political problems from slavery were enormous. Almost all of popular politics revolved around slavery. In the days of when the compromises just started being put into place, the elections were party vs. party or candidate vs. candidate, with states from both the North and South voting for both parties. For example, in the election of 1800, both Jefferson and Adams had at least one electoral vote from both the North and South. However, as Document H clearly shows that with very slight exception of some states won by the Constitutional Union and by the Northern Democrats, the presidential election was pretty much just southern states against northern states. As shown in Documents A and D, where Henry Clay refutes South Carolina nullifying a federal ruling and Daniel Webster speaks about the importance of keeping the Union and about how the North should comply with the fugitive slave laws, despite political differences, politicians from
The political problems from slavery were enormous. Almost all of popular politics revolved around slavery. In the days of when the compromises just started being put into place, the elections were party vs. party or candidate vs. candidate, with states from both the North and South voting for both parties. For example, in the election of 1800, both Jefferson and Adams had at least one electoral vote from both the North and South. However, as Document H clearly shows that with very slight exception of some states won by the Constitutional Union and by the Northern Democrats, the presidential election was pretty much just southern states against northern states. As shown in Documents A and D, where Henry Clay refutes South Carolina nullifying a federal ruling and Daniel Webster speaks about the importance of keeping the Union and about how the North should comply with the fugitive slave laws, despite political differences, politicians from