Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
PAGE DANIEL WEBSTER, CHRONOLOGY ix THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND 3 THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 30 THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 50 ADAMS AND JEFFERSON 67 THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE 111 THE REPLY TO HAYNE 115 EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE 1...
PAGE DANIEL WEBSTER, CHRONOLOGY ix THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND 3 THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 30 THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 50 ADAMS AND JEFFERSON 67 THE MUR...
2. Part 2At length the appointed time came, bringing with it unusual severity of cold and rain. An unfrequented and barren heath, on the shores of Lincolnshire, was the selected spot whe...
3. Part 3The cause of science and literature also imposes upon us an important and delicate trust. The wealth and population of the country are now so far advanced as to authorize the ex...
4. Part 4A chief distinction of the present day is a community of opinions and knowledge amongst men in different nations, existing in a degree heretofore unknown. Knowledge has, in our...
5. Part 5It is not as a mere military encounter of hostile armies that the battle of Bunker Hill presents its principal claim to attention. Yet even as a mere battle there were circumsta...
6. Part 6Adams and Jefferson, I have said, are no more. As human beings, indeed, they are no more. They are no more, as in 1776, bold and fearless advocates of independence; no more, as...
7. Part 7The Declaration having been reported to Congress by the committee, the resolution itself was taken up and debated on the first day of July, and again on the 2d, on which last da...
8. Part 8Returning to the United States in 1788, he found the new government about going into operation, and was himself elected the first Vice-President,[19] a situation which he filled...
9. Part 9MR. PRESIDENT,--When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest...
10. Part 10Sir, we narrow-minded people of New England do not reason thus. Our notion of things is entirely different. We look upon the States, not as separated, but as united. We love to...
11. Part 11Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections; let me indulge in refreshing remembrance of the past; let me remind you that, in early times, no States cherished greater harmony, b...
12. Part 12No doubt, Sir, a great majority of the people of New England conscientiously believed the embargo law of 1807 unconstitutional; as conscientiously, certainly, as the people of S...
13. Part 13But, Sir, although there are fears, there are hopes also. The people have preserved this, their own chosen Constitution, for forty years, and have seen their happiness, prosperi...
14. Part 14The reiterated admonitions in his Farewell Address show his deep fears that foreign influence would insinuate itself into our counsels through the channels of domestic dissensio...
15. Part 15This is that day of the year which announced to mankind the great fact of American Independence. This fresh and brilliant morning blesses our vision with another beholding of th...
16. Part 16New England, third century of history of, 3; ancestors of, 41; religious liberty in, 11; distribution of property in, 19; education in, 21; future progress of, 28; settlement of...
17. Part 17[39] Interesting examples of Webster's revision of important passages in this speech may be found by comparing the present standard text with the original versions as preserved...