The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster in Eighteen Volumes, volume 6, 1903. (eSourceBook for Towards a Metaphysics of Society 7)

This volume contains the speeches of Daniel Webster in Congress from 1830 to 1834, in particular the celebrated Reply to Hayne. This is a must read for anyone interested in the Nullification debates and the closely related questions of slavery and tariff.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852) is one of the leading American politicians, from New-England, of the first half of the 19th century, after the disappearance of the giants of the American Revolution.
He is considered one of the greatest American orators with his contemporaries Henry Clay (Kentucky) and John C. Calhoun (South Carolina), together known as the Great Triumvirate, they represented the main conflicting interests of the white American population from the North, West and South, and despite their personal abilities, their greatest achievement may be that they have been utterly incapable to avert one of the most predictable and predicted wars, the Civil War.

This eSourceBook collection will provide most of their extent writings: the electronic publishing order may not reflect the original publication order, but may reflect the specific interest linking them to other volumes in the collection.

This is volume 6 out of 18 of the Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster. It contains fundamental speeches for the Constitutional history of the United States: the second speech on Foot's Resolution (the celebrated Reply to Hayne); Speeches on the controversy regarding the Bank of the United States and the constitutional powers of the President, a version of presidential Nullification; A speech in response to John C. Calhoun and Nullification on the nature of the Constitution made for the citizens and not for the States, in which there is a detailed analysis of the vocabulary used by Calhoun. It is in these speeches that one finds expressions as these:“the people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people”, which is the forerunner of Lincoln's Gettysburg address “government of the people, by the people, for the people”, and to which Calhoun shall answer, in a forthcoming volume of this eSourceBook, “a government formed by the States; ordained and established by the States, and for the States”.
Detailed Content:
Speeches in Congress
Second Speech on Foot’s Resolution
Last Remarks on Foot’s Resolution
Notes
The Nomination of Mr. Van Buren as Minister to England
Apportionment of Representation
Bank of the United States
The Presidential Veto of the United States Bank Bill
The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States
The Removal of the Deposits
Appendix
Notes of the Reply to Hayne
The Reply to Hayne—A Memorandum by Mr. Webster