1850 DANIEL WEBSTER SIGNED SPEECH ON STATE OF THE UNION

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1850 - Daniel Webster - Signed Speech Following Passage of Missouri Compromise - His View on Religious Tolerance, Manifest Destiny & the Union THIS IS BACKED BY OUR LIFETIME WRITTEN GUARANTEE OF AUTHENTICITY Secretary of State Daniel Webster's Signed Speech "A Man's Religious Belief is a Matter above Human Law ...It is our duty to carry...American Principles over the whole continent ...We have our Private Opinions...but overall...we are all Americans" Speech Delivered December 23, 1850 at the New York New England Society Daniel Webster (1782 -1852) America's Pre-eminent Orator, Daniel Webster, was the foremost Advocate of his day for American Nationalism, the Constitution and the Union. A brilliant attorney, he argued many of the formative Constitutional Cases; an extraordinary speaker, he held the Union together for forty years through his Congressional Gifts of Persuasion; and a superb Statesman, he negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, settling the Border with Canada, which remains the world's longest undefended border, and making a final peace with England that has lasted for over for over 160 years. is a signed copy of one of Webster's Last Speeches in Defense of America and its Values, Riding the Political Circuit one last time to Hold his Beloved Union Together. Historical Note In almost every respect Daniel Webster was larger than life, an intellectual colossus, a statesman of the first rank, and a man of towering, and finally unfulfilled, ambition. Few have left such a lasting mark on all three branches of America government. Webster's cases before the Supreme Court are cited daily as the foundations of American Law and the supremacy of the Constitution over the states. Three times a Secretary of State, his Webster-Ashburton Treaty averted a third war with Great Britain and usd in a new era of peace. It remains today a founding document in the International Law of Nations. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, Webster was the unquestioned Dean of Congress. His portrait appears no fewer than six times in the U.S. Capitol, a tribute to the man who three times averted civil war and epitomizes what is now called "the Golden Age of Senate Oratory." Webster was a major player in American politics in the era between the War of 1812 and the beginning of the Civil War, involved with every significant issue confronting the new nation. Webster had no equal as an orator, then or since. Whether in the Senate, in the Courts of European Powers, before the Supreme Court, or on the political stump, he was a golden-tongued spellbinder, often holding audiences in thrall for hours. In his lifelong defense of the Constitution, and the preservation of the Union, Webster won love and respect. In 1812 Webster was elected to the House of Representatives. He then left Congress in 1816 and moved to Boston. Over the next six years, he won major constitutional cases before the Supreme Court (most notably, Dartmouth v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden, and McCulloch v. Maryland), establishing himself as the nation's leading lawyer and an outstanding orator. In 1823, Webster was returned to Congress from Boston, and in 1827 he was elected Senator from Massachusetts. Webster is perhaps most famous for his two Bookend Speeches of 1830 and 1850 which framed the national dialogue and almost single-handedly maintained the Union. In 1828 a tariff law was passed favoring the rapidly industrializing northern states which were switching from shipping to a mercantile based economy. This was strongly opposed by southern states with their commodity based economies. A movement was set afoot to declare that an individual state could nullify such a Federal Law when it was against their own interests. The issue was joined between Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. Replying to South Carolina's Robert Hayne in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the Union. His words "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" won wide acclaim. read more

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