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 ...

WHEN Daniel Webster entered Dartmouth College, more than one hundred years ago, it had attained a considerable degree of prosperity. For a quarter of a century after Wheelock planted it in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NORTH HAMPTON — Daniel Webster, senator from Massachusetts, addressed a gathering Wednesday night at North Hampton Library with the kind of eloquence unheard from public officials since sometime ...

On this day in 1782, Daniel Webster, one of the great political orators of the 19th century, was born in Salisbury, N.H. Before moving on to the Senate, he served in the House for five terms ...

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 ...