[Linda Cantoni <linda.cantoni@verizon.net>] American Statesmen EDITED BY JOHN T. MORSE, JR. American Statesmen DANIEL WEBSTER BY HENRY CABOT LODGE BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1883 AND 1911, BY HENRY CABOT LODGE CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH CHAPTER II. LAW AND POLITICS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER III. THE DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE.--MR. WEBSTER AS A LAWYER CHAPTER IV. THE MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION AND THE PLYMOUTH ORATION CHAPTER V. RETURN TO CONGRESS CHAPTER VI. THE TARIFF OF 1828 AND THE REPLY TO HAYNE CHAPTER VII. THE STRUGGLE WITH JACKSON AND THE RISE OF THE WHIG PARTY CHAPTER VIII. SECRETARY OF STATE.--THE ASHBURTON TREATY CHAPTER IX. RETURN TO THE SENATE.--THE SEVENTH OF MARCH SPEECH CHAPTER X. THE LAST YEARS DANIEL WEBSTER. [NOTE.--In preparing this volume I have carefully examined all the literature contemporary and posthumous relating to Mr. Webster. I have not gone beyond the printed material, of which there is a vast mass, much of it of no value, but which contains all and more than is needed to obtain a correct understanding of the man and of his public and private life. No one can pretend to write a life of Webster without following in large measure the narrative of events as given in the elaborate, careful, and scholarly biography which we owe to Mr. George T. Curtis. In many of my conclusions I have differed widely from those of Mr. Curtis, but I desire at the outset to acknowledge fully my obligations to him. I have sought information in all directions, and have obtained some fresh material, and, as I believe, have thrown a new light upon certain points, but this does not in the least diminish the debt which I owe to the ample biography of Mr. Curtis in regard to the details as well as the general outline of Mr. Webster's public and private life.] CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH.