Daniel Webster for Young Americans: Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the ConstitutionWebster, Daniel
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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
Plato, 9.
Plymouth, Mass., 6, 7 and note, 28, 59;
speech of Webster at, 3.
Pope, Alexander, 199 note.
Prescott, William, 36, 54, 57, 58.
Public lands, 128.
Public works bonds of union, 129.
Puritans, 5 note.
Putnam, Israel, 36, 54.
Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 73.
Randolph, Peyton, 83.
Raphael, 177.
Religion, influence of, 27.
Religious liberty in New England, 11.
Religious persecutions in England, 12.
Revolution, American, 32;
survivors of, 35, 36, 38;
influence of, upon Europe, 42.
Revolution of 1688, English, importance of, 181.
Revolution, Webster admits right of, 147;
a law to itself, 164.
Robinson, John, 12 and note, 15.
Rome, commonwealth of, 21.
Salem, Mass., speech of Webster at, 111.
Saratoga, N. Y., 38.
Sargent, Henry, 7 and note.
Secession, peaceable, impossible, 195.
Senate, United States, 121;
speeches of Webster in, 115, 194.
Serbonis, Lake, 218 note.
"Seventh of March" (1850) speech of Webster, 194.
Shakespeare, William, 202 and note.
Sherman, Roger, 84.
Slavery, Webster's opinion concerning, 126-128.
Smithfield (London), 12 and note.
Socrates, 9.
Solon, 48.
Sophocles, 9.
South America, liberty in, 46.
South Carolina, 136, 137;
nullification in, 116;
Webster's tribute to, 142;
doctrine of State discretion, 146.
Southern Confederacy, idea of a, 197.
Spain, greed of, 60.
Sparta, 204.
Standish, Miles, 7.
Stark, John, 36, 54.
States, not final judges of acts of general government, 145;
powers of, as related to powers of general government, 152, 160.
"Suicide is confession," 114.
Sullivan, John, 41.
Supreme Court of the United States, final decision of, 164.
Tariffs, protective, as related to Constitution, 153, 159;
to South Carolina nullification, 166.
Thebes, 204.
Trenton, N. Y., 38.
Turenne, Vicomte de, 168 and note.
Tyler, John, 54;
portrait of, 54.
Union, as related to nullification, 154;
preservation of, 171, 195, 198, 211.
United States, example of, 47;
are one, 130;
a western sun, 182;
advantages of isolation of, 186;
dismemberment of, the greatest of evils, 191;
growth of population of, 205-206.
Vauban, Sebastien de, 168.
Virginia resolutions of 1798, 146-147, 146 note.
Virginia, University of, 105 and note.
Warren, Joseph, 37, 40, 41, 54;
portrait of, 37.
Washington, George, 41, 59, 63, 67, 94, 102, 104, 139, 204, 207-210;
power of the name of, 175;
moral example of, 176;
Farewell Address of, 183, 185, 186, 188;
conduct of America's foreign relations, 184;
domestic policy of, 187;
first cabinet of, 187;
important measures of administration of, 188;
opinion of dangers of party spirit, 188;
love of the Union, 189;
monition of, 209-210.
WASHINGTON, THE CHARACTER OF, 175.
Washington, city of, 207-208;
speeches of Webster in, 200.
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