Daniel Webster eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 332 pages of information about Daniel Webster.

Daniel Webster eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 332 pages of information about Daniel Webster.
  on property qualification, for the Senate, 113, 115;
  on the independence of the Judiciary, 116;
  Plymouth oration, 117;
  manner and appearance, 118;
  fitness for occasional oratory, 120;
  great success at Plymouth, 121, 122;
  improvement in first Bunker Hill oration, quality of style, 124;
  oration on Adams and Jefferson, 125;
  supposed speech of John Adams, 126;
  oration, before Mechanics Institute, other orations, 127;
  oration on laying corner-stone of addition to capitol, 128;
  reelected to Congress, 129;
  political position in 1823, 130;
  placed at head of Judiciary Committee, 131;
  speech on revolution in Greece, 132;
  its objects and purposes, 133, 134;
  withdraws his resolutions, success of his speech, 135;
  speech against tariff of 1824, defends Supreme Court, 136;
  speech on the Cumberland Road Bill, 137;
  carries through the Crimes Act, 138;
  carries Judiciary Bill through House, lost in Senate, 139;
  supports mission to Panama Congress, 140, 141;
  supports reference of message on Georgia and Creek Indians, 142;
  tone of his speech, 143;
  elected senator from Massachusetts, 144;
  early inclination to support Calhoun, opposition to Jackson and Adams,
    145;
  to Clay, relations with Crawford, 146;
  on committee to examine charges of Edwards, defends Crawford, 147;
  wishes Mr. Mason to be Attorney-General, and English mission for himself,
    takes but little part in election, 148;
  interview with Mr. Adams, 148, 149;
  friendly relations with Mr. Adams, supports administration, 149;
  real hostility to, feels that he is not properly recognized, and accepts
    senatorship, 150;
  inactive in election, allied with Clay and Adams, and founders of Whig
    party, 161;
  Spanish claims, first sees Marshfield, English friends, Niagara, oration
    at Bunker Hill, and eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, 152, 153;
  grief on death of his wife, 154;
  appearance in Washington after death of his wife, 155;
  speech on bill for revolutionary officers, on tariff of 1828, 156, 165;
  free-trade Federalist when he entered Congress, 157;
  remarks in 1814 on protective duties, 158, 159;
  advocates modifications in tariff of 1816, 160;
  speech at Faneuil Hall against tariff in 1820, 160-163;
  speech against tariff of 1824, 163-165;
  reasons for his change of position, as to tariff in 1828, 166, 167;
  speech at Boston dinner, 167;
  character of this change of policy, and question of consistency, 168;
  treats free trade or protection as a question of expediency, 169;
  change on the constitutional question, 170;
  opposes Jackson’s removals from office, 172;
  first speech on Foote’s resolution, 173;
  second speech, reply to Hayne, 174;
  argument on nullification, 175;
  weak places in his argument, 176;
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