A history of the United States . ew Hampshire, in 1805; member of Congress, 1813-1817;moved to Boston and in 1818 rose to the front rank of lawyers by his laborsin the Dartmouth College Case; congressman, 1823-1827; became widelyknown as orator by his orations at Plymouth, 1820, and Bunker Hill, 1825,and his eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, 1826; entered the Senate in 1827, andat once took high rank as a leader; favored the protective tariff of 1828; wonthe highest distinction as Expounder of the Constitution in debate withHayne in 1830; Secretary of State, 1841; negotiated the Ashburton Treaty,
A history of the United States . ew Hampshire, in 1805; member of Congress, 1813-1817;moved to Boston and in 1818 rose to the front rank of lawyers by his laborsin the Dartmouth College Case; congressman, 1823-1827; became widelyknown as orator by his orations at Plymouth, 1820, and Bunker Hill, 1825,and his eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, 1826; entered the Senate in 1827, andat once took high rank as a leader; favored the protective tariff of 1828; wonthe highest distinction as Expounder of the Constitution in debate withHayne in 1830; Secretary of State, 1841; negotiated the Ashburton Treaty,1842; resigned in 1843; reentered the Senate, 1845; gave feeble support toTaylor in 1848; alienated many old friends by his 7tli of March speech in 1850,in which he supported Clays Compromises and took a conservative position onthe question of slavery ; Secretary of State, 1850-1852. 2 Born in North Carolina, 1782; died, 1858. Early migrated to Tennessee;was colonel in the War of 1812; went to Missouri and became a journalist in. Thomas H. Benton. 276 JACKSONS FIRST ADMINISTRATION, 1829-1833. [§355 Senator Eobert Y. Hayne ^ of South Carolina came to the helpof the Western men, since to most Southerners New England was now obnoxious on ac-count of the Tariff of Abomi-nations (§ 340), and sincethe West, being compara-tively unsettled, might, theythought, possibly be won toslaverys side. Webster re-plied to Hayne, and the latterreturned to the attack, but ona different line. He discussedthe nature of the generalgovernment and gave Avarn-ing that if the South werenot relieved of • tariff bur-dens, the remedy of a stateveto would have to be re-sorted to. In other words,he advanced Calhouns doc-trine of nullification, which,as we have seen, was an extension of the principles enunci-ated by Virginia and Kentucky in 1798, and by the HartfordConvention in 1814 (§§ 279 and 315). Webster replied inhis most famous speech, and as an orator certainly got the
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