The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,778 pages of information about The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster.

The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,778 pages of information about The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster.

Washington City, its favorable situation, 651;
  public dinner at, 339.

Washington, Treaty of, letter of Mr. Webster on the ratification of the,
  666.

Webster, Daniel, remarks on African Slave Trade, 49;
  resolution to appoint an agent to Greece, 57;
  opinion of paper currency, 82;
  explains his change of opinion on protection, 110;
  President of Bunker Hill Monument Association, 125;
  address on completion of Bunker Hill Monument, 136;
  author of supposed speech against the Declaration, 167;
  eloquence defined by, 167;
  letter concerning the authorship of speech ascribed to John Adams, 177;
  his portrayal of murder, 195;
  reply to Hayne, 227;
  views on disposition of public lands, 237, 238;
  course pursued in Congress on internal improvements, 243;
  course concerning tariff, 247;
  sentiments on consolidation of the Union, 248;
  apostrophe to the Union, 269;
  reply to Calhoun in regard to State sovereignty, 273;
  speech at public dinner in New York, 307;
  defence of the Constitution, 317;
  circumstances of his birth, 319;
  respect of, for judicature of New York, 319;
  toast to City of New York, 319;
  presides at centennial anniversary of Washington, 339;
  toast to Washington, 346;
  sentiments on re-election of Jackson, 357;
  prediction in regard to irredeemable paper currency, 365;
  remark of J.Q.  Adams on, 406;
  reception in New York, 1837, 422;
  opinions on slavery, 429;
  views on hard money, 440;
  devoted to service of United States, 457;
  reply to Mr. Calhoun, 458;
  denies Mr. Calhoun’s charges, 458-60;
  defence of his course in war, 459;
  opposes Mr. Dallas’s bill for a bank, 460;
  course in war of 1812, 461;
  early support to the navy, 461;
  answers Mr. Calhoun’s charges in regard to slavery, 462;
  answer to Calhoun’s charges on tariff, 463;
  political differences with Mr. Calhoun, 468;
  a hard-money man, 468;
  the log cabin of his father, 477;
  visit to Richmond, 478;
  speech at his reception in Boston, 481;
  Representative in Congress, 481;
  reception at Boston, Sept. 30, 1842, 481;
  Secretary of State under President Harrison, 482;
  visit and speech in England, 483;
  opposition to his remaining in the President’s Cabinet (1841), 486;
  delicacy of his position in 1842, 486;
  study of the currency question, 492;
  speech at dinner of New England Society of New York, 496;
  toast at dinner of New England Society, at New York, 503;
  correspondence arising under Girard Will case, 505;
  letter to Madam Story on death of her son, 532;
  opposed admission of Texas into the Union, 559;
  against extension of slavery and slave representation, 574;
  invited by citizens of Marshfield to address them, 575;
  letter of, to citizens of Marshfield,

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