An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . profession for nine years. During this period, he de-voted himself, without remission, to the study and practice of seems to have risen almost immediately to the head of his pro-fession in that part of the country. N November, 1812, he was elected to Congress,and took his seat at the first session of the ThirteenthCongress—an extra session called in May, he rose a
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . profession for nine years. During this period, he de-voted himself, without remission, to the study and practice of seems to have risen almost immediately to the head of his pro-fession in that part of the country. N November, 1812, he was elected to Congress,and took his seat at the first session of the ThirteenthCongress—an extra session called in May, he rose at once to an equality with the mostdistinguished members. His first speech, deliveredon the 10th of June, 1813, took the House by sur-Men left their seats in order to see the speaker faceand sat down, or stood on the floor, fronting , in almost breathless silence, to the whole speech,being over, many persons, among whom are somewho widely dissent from his views, warmly compliment and con-gratulate the orator. The project for a Bank of the United States—a project introducedabout this time into the House, was opposed by Mr. Webster, Cal-houn, and Lowndes, mainly on the ground that, to enable the bank. ADMINISTRATION OF FILLMORE. 639 to exist under the conditions specified, it was relieved from thenecessity of redeeming its notes in specie ; in other words, it wasan arrangement to issue an irredeemable paper currency. Duringthe greater part of the year 1815, Mr. Webster was busily engagedin the practice of law. Though he had his share of employment inNew Hampshire, it did not furnish an adequate support for his in-creasing family. The destruction of his house, furniture, andlibrary, with many of his manuscripts, by the great fire at Portsmouth,in December, 1813, rendered his exertions necessary in order tomeet his increasing expenses. In the Fourteenth Congress, he wasinstrumental in procuring the passage of a resolution which restoredto a sound basis the currency of the
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