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

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

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, on the Constitution, 140.Whig party, convention of 1848, 132; campaign of 1852, 207;decline, 260-262;nominates Fillmore, 280.

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen

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