What can you infer from daniel webster’s vote in favor of the compromise of 1850, even though it included a stronger enforcement of the fugitive slave law, which made it easier for southern slave owners to recapture slaves who made it to free northern states? question 5 options: he understood property rights were important to the survival of the country as a single nation. he valued the survival of the country as a single nation more than his own principles and beliefs. he knew slavery would not last much longer, so his principles didn’t really matter anymore.