Benjamin Franklin " 102 The Reply to Hayne _Facing page_ 118 Thomas H. Benton _Page_ 120 John Quincy Adams " 123 Robert Y. Hayne " 135 The Battle of Lexington _Facing page_ 144 George Washington _Page_ 175 The Resignation of Washington _Facing page_ 178 Henry Clay _Page_ 195 The Capitol at Washington " 200 Washington Monument " 208 Millard Fillmore " 211 [Illustration] DANIEL WEBSTER CHRONOLOGY Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New Hampshire January 18, 1782 Graduated at Dartmouth College 1801 Admitted to the bar 1805 Practised law in Boscawen, New Hampshire 1805-7 Removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1807 Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire 1813-7 Removed to Boston 1816 Dartmouth College case, United States Supreme Court 1818 Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 1820-1 Oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts 1820 Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts 1823-7 Gibbons _versus_ Ogden case 1823 Oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument 1825 Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson 1826 Senator from Massachusetts 1827-41 Reply to Hayne 1830 Argument in White murder case, Salem, Massachusetts 1830 Reply to Calhoun: The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States 1833 Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison and Tyler 1841-3 Webster-Ashburton Treaty between the United States and England 1842 Oration on the completion of Bunker Hill Monument 1843 Senator from Massachusetts 1845-50 Seventh of March Speech for compromise between Northern and Southern States 1850