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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Example Sentences

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 Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Webster, Daniel, letter to, from N. W., 57; his part in passing copyright law, 66.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.

Webster, Daniel, urges naval preparations for war of 1812, 309.

From James Madison by Gay, Sydney Howard

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

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

Webster, Daniel, speech in reply to Hayne, 260; speech on Bunker Hill, 283; gems from speeches of, 90; last words of, 296; death of, 532.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various