In his Seventh of March speech,Daniel Webster
A) attacked Henry Clay's compromise proposals.
B) called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law.
C) advocated a congressional ban on slavery in the territories.
D) proposed a scheme for electing two presidents, one from the North and one from the South.
E) became a hated figure in the South.

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In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law. He argued that it was the duty of Northerners to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, passed in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850, which required them to return runaway slaves to their owners. This speech angered many abolitionists and other Northerners opposed to slavery.

In His Seventh of March Speech,Daniel Webster