It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South. Which individual is most closely associated with the excerpt? Select one:

James Buchanan

Daniel Webster

Abraham Lincoln

John C. Calhoun