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Daniel Webster for Young Americans: Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution
Webster, Daniel
Readers; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Government, United States, source of powers of, 150, 162, 164;
powers of, as related to powers of States, 152, 158, 160, 162;
a new experiment, 180.
"Great Debate," The, 115 note.
Greece, Revolution in (1824), 45 and note.
Greene, Nathanael, 41.
Hancock, John, 90, 96;
portrait of, 91.
Harrington, James, 20.
Harvard College, 23;
view of, 24.
Hayne, Robert Young, 115 note, 117-122;
portrait of, 135.
HAYNE, THE REPLY TO: From the Second Speech on Foot's Resolution,
delivered in the Senate of the United States, Jan. 26 and 27,
1830, 115;
first version of, 173 note;
and see 115 note.
Henry, Patrick, 100;
portrait of, 101.
Hillhouse, James, 155 and note.
Holland, Pilgrims in, 14.
Homer, 177.
Independence, American, 201-204.
Independence, Declaration of, 83-87.
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, view of, 80.
Internal improvements, Webster's opinions concerning, 129.
Jackson, Andrew, 115 note.
Jamestown, Va., 32 and note.
Jefferson, Thomas, 184 note;
similarity to Adams, 70;
example of, 70;
work of, 70;
services of, 73;
career of, 81-85, 99, 100-106;
portrait of, 82.
Kentucky resolutions of 1798, 147 note.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 39 and note;
portrait of, 40.
Lee, Richard Henry, 83.
Legislatures, State, in relation to national laws, 145.
Lexington, Mass., 55, 96.
Liberty the inheritance of every American, 203.
Lincoln, Benjamin, 41.
Lincolnshire, England, 13.
Livingston, Robert R., 84.
Marathon, 8 and note.
Mason and Dixon's line, 137 and note.
Massachusetts, in the Revolution, 143;
defence of, 144.
Milton, John, 177.
Missouri question, 126-127, 126 note.
Monmouth, N. J., 38.
Monuments of the past, 53.
National Republican party, 122 note, 174.
Nations, progress of, 41.
Newton, Isaac, 71.
NEW ENGLAND, THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF: A Discourse delivered at
Plymouth, Mass. Dec. 22, 1820, 3.
New 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, 3, 32;
relation of, to Western improvements, 133-134;
Hayne's attack on, 136;
relation of, to South Carolina doctrine of nullification, 155;
to the embargo of 1807, 157.
Northwest Territory, 126 note.
Nullification, 116, 154, 165-169;
leads to disunion, 169.
Ohio, 126 note.
"Old Style" of reckoning time, 73 note.
Ordinance of 1787, the, 126 and note.
Otis, James, 76;
portrait of, 77.
Paine, Robert Treat, 79, 96.
Parties, political, in 1812, 141.
Party contests under the Constitution, 138.
Phidias, 9.
Philip of Macedon, 204.
Pilgrims, 5 and note;
purpose of, 10, 59;
new home of, 15, 18;
duty of descendants of, 25;
and see New England, First Settlement of.
Pizarro, Francisco, 61.
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