John Quincy Adams was a Massachusetts Senator. His support of the Embargo Bill, which cut off all trade with Great Britain, caused him great unpopularity. He was a Federalist. His party, his constituents, and even his home state was against the Embargo Bill, but he supported it on the fact that he was looking at the effect on the whole country not only the state he was representing. He knew he would be hated for his decision to support the Bill, but he did what he thought would be best for the country.

Daniel Webster was a Federalist and a representative for Massachusetts in the House of Representatives and in the US Senate. He was against slavery but when it became a question of preserving the Union, he did what he thought would be best for the countr

He also supported Al Smith. Smith was a Catholic and a "wet," but Norris still supported him. This caused him even more unpopularity than his decision on The armed Ship Bill.

Edmund G. Ross was a Kansas Senator. At this time President Andrew Johnson was being tried for impeachment. Ross went under a lot of pressure from his fellow Republicans who wished for Johnson to be impeached. They needed his vote in order to succeed. When the day came, Ross voted against the impeachment keeping the President in office. Because of this, neither him nor any Republican that voted against the impeachment was ever re-elected into the Senate again and when he returned to Kansas, him and his family were constantly harassed.

Thomas Hart Benton was a Senator from Missouri. Senator Benton was against slavery even though he was representing a pro slavery state. He was loyal to the Union, which he had fought for both on the battlefront and on the Congress floor. He was considered guilty of being a traitor and criticized constantly by his own state and constituents.

y. He compromised his old beliefs of non slavery in order to save the Union. He spoke in front of the Senate on this matter as an America, not a man from Massachusetts. This speech was known as the "Seventh of March" speech. Webster unlike some of the others described in this book succeeded and was praised by the North and South alike.

Robert A. Taft was a Ohio Republican. He was the son of a former President and it was his dream to follow in his father's footsteps. During this time, the W

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