Webster, Daniel

A Whig political leader and diplomat of the nineteenth century. Webster is remembered for his speaking ability and for his service as a senator from Massachusetts through most of the 1830s and 1840s. Webster defended national unity in the Senate against advocates of states' rights such as John C. Calhoun . In one debate, he spoke the famous words, “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” He opposed the Mexican War and the admission of Texas as a slave state but supported the Compromise of 1850 , including the Fugitive Slave Act . A member of the Whig party , he ran for president three times but was never nominated.

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From the 1820s to the 1850s, the upper house was dominated by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Calhoun.

And Daniel Webster, a great opponent of slavery, supported the vile Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act and all.

As John Marshall and Daniel Webster long ago pointed out, the power to tax involves the power to destroy.

Given the name Daniel Webster, he said, “Daniel Webster, let me see …” He paused.

Daniel Webster said justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.

Carlyle had no faith in rapid writing of any sort, any more than Daniel Webster had in extempore speaking.

We finally got these two hundred persons safely on board the Daniel Webster.

The President and Daniel Webster were polite to him, but neither seemed to think much of the northwest.

President Lincoln and a lawyer named Daniel Webster originated a large percentage of the current stories.

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