A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ure the greatprize. The American Congressnever knew a more brilliant debater,nor did the public ever listen to amore magnetic orator. His variouscom2:)romise measures in the interestof the Union were beyond the at-tainment of any other man. Hisfame rests above that which anyoffice can confer. His friends idol-ized and his 02:)ponents respectedhim. A strong political enemy oncerefused an introduction to
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ure the greatprize. The American Congressnever knew a more brilliant debater,nor did the public ever listen to amore magnetic orator. His variouscom2:)romise measures in the interestof the Union were beyond the at-tainment of any other man. Hisfame rests above that which anyoffice can confer. His friends idol-ized and his 02:)ponents respectedhim. A strong political enemy oncerefused an introduction to him onthe ground that he could not with-stand the magnetism of a personal acquaintance which had won other goodhaters to his side. John C. Breckinridge, his political adversary, in hisfuneral oration, said: If I were to write his epitaph, I would inscribe as thehighest eulogy on the stone which shall mark his resting-place, Here lies aman who was in the public service for fifty years and never attempted to deceivehis countrymen. PANIEL WEBSTER. Daniel Webster was born January 18, 1782, at Salisbury, New Hampshire,and died October 24, 1852. He was educated at Exeter Academy and graduated. DANIEL WEBSTER. 226 JACKSON, VAN BUREN, HARRISON, AND TYLER. from Dartmouth College in 1801. After teaching school a short time in Maine,he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1805, and began practice at Boscaweu,in his native State. Two years afterward, he removed to Portsmouth, where hespeedily became a leader at the bar and served in Congress from 1813 to that time he was a moderate Federalist. He settled in Boston in 1818,and assumed a front rank among lawyers by his argument before the UnitedStates Supreme Court in the celebrated Dartmouth College Case, whichinvolved the obligation of contracts and the powers of the national was congressman from Massachusetts from 1823 to 1827, was chairman ofthe judiciary committee, and attracted great attention by his speeches o
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