The map shows the United States in 1850, followed by a quotation from Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster. A map of Slave and Free Territories in 1850. Legend key entries are Free state, Slave state, Free territory, Slave territory.

I hold the idea of a separation of these States, those that are free to form one government, and those that are slave-holding to form another, as such an impossibility . . . . There are natural causes that would keep and tie us together, and there are social and domestic relations which we could not break if we would, and which we should not if we could.

–Daniel Webster,
1850

The sentiments expressed by Daniel Webster were resolved by the

Compromise of 1850.
attack on Fort Sumter.
Missouri Compromise.
abolition of slavery.