It has been said that by the 1850s each side distrusted the other so greatly that disunion was inevitable: the North because of Southern grasping for more slave territory; the  South because of Northern nullification of the Constitution and federal laws. Comment  critically. Webster in 1850 was condemned as an appeaser or compromiser and hence  not a statesman. Is compromise essential to statecraft?

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 It has been said that by the 1850s each side distrusted the other so greatly that disunion was inevitable: the North because of Southern grasping for more slave territory; the  South because of Northern nullification of the Constitution and federal laws. Comment  critically. Webster in 1850 was condemned as an appeaser or compromiser and hence  not a statesman. Is compromise essential to statecraft?

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