Etext scanned by Dianne Bean using OmniPage Pro software donated by Caere WEBSTER’S SEVENTH OF MARCH SPEECH AND THE SECESSION MOVEMENT, 1850 By Herbert Darling Foster With foreword by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson American Historical Review Vol. XXVII., No. 2 January, 1922 FOREWORD It is very curious that much of the history of the United States