The great speeches and orations of Daniel Webster, with an essay on Daniel Webster as a master of English style
1879
The great speeches and orations of Daniel Webster, with an essay on Daniel Webster as a master of English style
1879
lxiii, 707 pages 24 cm Portrait vignette on t.p Includes index The Dartmouth College case -- First settlement of New England -- Defence of Judge James Prescott -- The revolution in Greece -- The tariff -- The case of Gibbons and Ogden -- The Bunker Hill Monument -- The completion of the Bunker Hill Monument -- Our relations to the South American republics -- Adams and Jefferson -- The case of Ogden and Saunders -- The murder of Captain Joseph White -- The reply to Hayne -- The Constitution not a compact between sovereign states -- Public dinner at New York -- The presidential veto of the United States Bank Bill -- The character of Washington -- Executive patronage and removals from office -- Executive usurpation -- The natural hatred of the poor to the rich -- A redeemable paper currency -- The presidential protest -- The appointing and removing power -- On the loss of the fortification bill in 1885 -- Reception at New York -- Slavery in the District of Columbia -- The credit system and the labor of the United States -- Remarks on the political course of Mr. Calhoun, in 1838 -- Reply to Mr. Calhoun -- A uniform system of bankruptcy -- "The log cabin candidate" -- Address to the ladies of Richmond -- Reception at Boston -- The landing at Plymouth -- The Christian ministry and the religious instruction of the young -- Mr. Justice story -- The Rhode Island government -- Objects of the Mexican War -- Exclusion of slavery from the territories -- Speech at Marshfield -- Jeremiah Mason -- Kossuth -- The Constitution and the Union -- Reception at Buffalo -- The addition to the Capitol -- Appendix. Impressment ; The right of search ; Letters to General Cass on the treaty of Washington -- The Hülsemann letter
