Senator Daniel Webster's fundamental view regarding the issue of slavery expansion into the West was that
a. Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
b. new slave and free states should always be admitted in pairs so as to preserve the sectional balance.
c. there was no need to legislate because climate and geography guaranteed that plantation slavery could not exist in the West.
d. slavery should be prohibited in the West but that the South could expand slavery into Central America and the Caribbean.
e. the South should be permitted to expand slavery if it abandoned its demand for a Fugitive Slave Law.
Answer: C