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
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. lxiii, 707 pages 24 cm Portrait vignette on t.p 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
