CHAPTER II. xxxiii Entrance on Public Life.--State of Parties in 1812.--Election to Congress.--Extra Session of 1813.--Foreign Relations of the Country.--Resolutions relative to the Berlin and Milan Decrees.--Naval Defence.--Reelected to Congress in 1814.--Peace with England.--Projects for a National Bank.--Mr. Webster's Course on that Question.--Battle of New Orleans.--New Questions arising on the Return of Peace.--Course of Prominent Men of Different Parties.--Mr. Webster's Opinions on the Constitutionality of the Tariff Policy.--The Resolution to restore Specie Payments moved by Mr. Webster.--Removal to Boston. CHAPTER III. xlviii Professional Character particularly in Reference to Constitutional Law.--The Dartmouth College Case argued at Washington in 1818.--Mr. Ticknor's Description of that Argument.--The Case of Gibbons and Ogden in 1824.--Mr. Justice Wayne's Allusion to that Case in 1847.--The Case of Ogden and Saunders in 1827.--The Case of the Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge.--The Alabama Bank Case.--The Case relative to the Boundary between Massachusetts and Rhode Island.--The Girard Will Case.--The Case of the Constitution of Rhode Island.--General Remarks on Mr. Webster's Practice in the Supreme Court of the United States.--Practice in the State Courts.--The Case of Goodridge,--and the Case of Knapp. CHAPTER IV. lx The Convention to revise the Constitution of Massachusetts.--John Adams a Delegate.--Mr. Webster's Share in its Proceedings.--Speeches on Oaths of Office, Basis of Senatorial Representation, and Independence of the Judiciary.--Centennial Anniversary at Plymouth on the 22d of December, 1820.--Discourse delivered by Mr. Webster.--Bunker Hill Monument, and Address by Mr. Webster on the Laying of the Corner-Stone, 17th of June, 1825.--Discourse on the Completion of the Monument, 17th of June, 1843.--Simultaneous Decease of Adams and Jefferson on the 4th of July, 1826.--Eulogy by Mr. Webster in Faneuil Hall.--Address at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the New Wing of the Capitol.--Remarks on the Patriotic Discourses of Mr. Webster, and on the Character of his Eloquence in Efforts of this Class.