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, 36, 117, 241, 245, 247, 279, 281.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

Daniel Webster Daniel Webster was the orator of the day.

From Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Albert F. Blaisdell

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

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

Weaver, James B. Webster, Daniel, birth; opposes nullification doctrine; secretary of state; speech on Compromise Bill; death of.

From A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster

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