Webster, Daniel

Cultural  

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

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

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

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

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 Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

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

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

From James Madison by Gay, Sydney Howard