Webster, Daniel

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1. A Whig political leader and diplomat of the nineteenth century. Webster is remembered for his speaking ability and for his service as a senator from Massachusetts through most of the 1830s and 1840s. Webster defended national unity in the Senate against advocates of states' rights such as John C. Calhoun. In one debate, he spoke the famous words, “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” He opposed the Mexican War and the admission of Texas as a slave state but supported the Compromise of 1850, including the Fugitive Slave Act. A member of the Whig party, he ran for president three times but was never nominated.

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Webster, Daniel

Webster, Daniel, quoted, xxiv and n.; xxii n., xxv n., xxvi, xxvii, 27, 39, 125.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

Webster, Daniel, Theodore Parker's sermon on, 164; defeated for the senatorship by Sumner, 218.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe

Webster, Daniel: his career and services, 41-2; his great speech, 45-6, 173; value of his support to Whigs, 68; Lincoln meets him, 91; his support of compromise of 1850 and his death, 99-100.

From Abraham Lincoln by Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron Charnwood

Webster, Daniel, basis of style, 53, 54; and presidential nomination in 1852, 86.

From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes

Webster, Daniel: originator of closing sentence of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, xxi, xxii.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) Oldroyd