The Great Speeches of Daniel Webster

The Great Speeches of Daniel Webster

Edwin Percy Whipple, american essayist and critic (1819-1886)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- DANIEL WEBSTER AS A MASTER OF ENGLISH STYLE

-04- THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE

-05- FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND

-06- DEFENCE OF JUDGE JAMES PRESCOTT

-07- THE REVOLUTION IN GREECE

-08- THE TARIFF

-09- THE CASE OF GIBBONS AND OGDEN

-10- THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT

-11- THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT

-12- OUR RELATIONS TO THE SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS

-13- ADAMS AND JEFFERSON

-14- DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

-15- THE CASE OF OGDEN AND SAUNDERS

-16- THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE

-17- THE REPLY TO HAYNE

-18- THE CONSTITUTION NOT A COMPACT BETWEEN SOVEREIGN STATES

-19- PUBLIC DINNER AT NEW YORK

-20- THE PRESIDENTIAL VETO OF THE UNITED STATES BANK BILL

-21- THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON

-22- EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE AND REMOVALS FROM OFFICE

-23- EXECUTIVE USURPATION

-24- THE NATURAL HATRED OF THE POOR TO THE RICH

-25- A REDEEMABLE PAPER CURRENCY

-26- THE PRESIDENTIAL PROTEST

-27- THE APPOINTING AND REMOVING POWER

-28- ON THE LOSS OF THE FORTIFICATION BILL IN 1835

-29- RECEPTION AT NEW YORK

-30- SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

-31- THE CREDIT SYSTEM AND THE LABOR

-32- REMARKS ON THE POLITICAL COURSE OF MR. CALHOUN, IN 1838

-33- REPLY TO MR. CALHOUN

-34- A UNIFORM SYSTEM OF BANKRUPTCY

-35- THE LOG CABIN CANDIDATE

-36- ADDRESS TO THE LADIES OF RICHMOND

-37- RECEPTION AT BOSTON

-38- THE LANDING AT PLYMOUTH

-39- THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AND THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE YOUNG

-40- THE RHODE ISLAND GOVERNMENT

-41- OBJECTS OF THE MEXICAN WAR

-42- EXCLUSION OF SLAVERY FROM THE TERRITORIES

-43- SPEECH AT MARSHFIELD, JEREMIAH MASON, KOSSUTH

-44- THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION

-45- RECEPTION AT BUFFALO

-46- THE ADDITION TO THE CAPITOL

-47- APPENDIX

-48- IMPRESSMENT

-49- THE RIGHT OF SEARCH

-50- LETTERS TO GENERAL CASS ON THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON