Webster’s famous speeches sanctifying the union were reprinted in widely used school readers and “thoroughly indoctrinated” the generation that fought the Civil War with constitutional ...

Describe Webster’s speech at the Bunker Hill monument dedication, as described by Joel Richard Paul. Based on the clip, summarize how others viewed Webster’s speeches and oratorical skill.

The speech: Daniel Webster's reply to Robert Hayne during an 1830 Senate debate. The topic: Nominally, a push by eastern states to limit the scope and speed of land sales in the western frontier.

Daniel Webster, the country’s foremost orator and lawyer, addressed the assembled crowd at Plymouth Massachusetts. As part of his almost-two-hour speech, Webster explored the history of the ...

For years, the marker on Cherry Hill marking the location of Daniel Webster’s last speech was missing; thanks to the Marshfield Historical Commission, that spot is once again home to a granite ...

The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster. With an Essay on Daniel Webtser as a Master of English Style. By EDWIN P. WHIPPLE, Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1879. ↩ ...

On this day in 1850, Sen. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts delivered a speech aimed at unifying moderates behind a compromise over slavery championed by Sens. Henry Clay of Kentucky and Stephen ...

Webster, again, was less splendid than Sheridan, but many of the glittering sentences of the “ Begums ” look very dim now, and the tinsel of the “ greatest speech of the age ” has ...

TALES OF DANIEL WEBSTER; ONE OF HIS OLD FRIENDS STILL LIVING. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE HON. GEORGE W. NESMITH -- THE DARTMOUTH CASE AND SOME GREAT SPEECHES. Share full article April 27, 1890 ...