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PAGE DANIEL WEBSTER, CHRONOLOGY ix THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND 3 THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 30 THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT 50 ADAMS AND JEFFERSON 67 THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE 111 THE REPLY TO HAYNE 115 EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE 174 THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON 175 THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION 194 THE ADDITION TO THE CAPITOL 200 INDEX 213
Birthplace of Daniel Webster, Franklin , N. H. " viii
The Landing of the Pilgrims " " 16
The Battle of Bunker Hill " " 30
Marquis de Lafayette " 40
Bunker Hill Monument " 50
John Tyler " 54
Faneuil Hall " 68
John Adams " 74
James Otis " 77
Independence Hall, Philadelphia " 80
Thomas Jefferson " 82
Samuel Adams " 97
Patrick Henry " 101
Benjamin Franklin " 102
John Quincy Adams " 123
Robert Y. Hayne " 135
The Capitol at Washington " 200
Washington Monument " 208
Millard Fillmore " 211
DANIEL WEBSTER
CHRONOLOGY
Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New Hampshire January 18, 1782
Graduated at Dartmouth College 1801
Admitted to the bar 1805
Practised law in Boscawen, New Hampshire 1805-7
Removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1807
Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire 1813-7
Removed to Boston 1816
Dartmouth College case, United States Supreme Court 1818
Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 1820-1
Oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts 1820
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts 1823-7
Oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument 1825
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson 1826
Senator from Massachusetts 1827-41
Reply to Hayne 1830
Argument in White murder case, Salem, Massachusetts 1830
Reply to Calhoun: The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States 1833
Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison and Tyler 1841-3
Webster-Ashburton Treaty between the United States and England 1842
Oration on the completion of Bunker Hill Monument 1843
Senator from Massachusetts 1845-50
Seventh of March Speech for compromise between Northern and Southern States 1850
Secretary of State under President Fillmore 1850-2
Died at Marshfield, Massachusetts October 24, 1852
THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND
A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, DEC. 22, 1820.
Let us rejoice that we behold this day. Let us be thankful that we have lived to see the bright and happy breaking of the auspicious morn which commences the third century of the history of New England. Auspicious, indeed,--bringing a happiness beyond the common allotment of Providence to men,--full of present joy, and gilding with bright beams the prospect of futurity, is the dawn that awakens us to the commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims.
Living at an epoch which naturally marks the progress of the history of our native land, we have come hither to celebrate the great event with which that history commenced. Forever honored be this, the place of our fathers' refuge! Forever remembered the day which saw them, weary and distressed, broken in everything but spirit, poor in all but faith and courage, at last secure from the dangers of wintry seas, and impressing this shore with the first footsteps of civilized man!
We have come to this Rock, to record here our homage for our Pilgrim Fathers; our sympathy in their sufferings; our gratitude for their labors; our admiration of their virtues; our veneration for their piety; and our attachment to those principles of civil and religious liberty which they encountered the dangers of the ocean, the storms of heaven, the violence of savages, disease, exile, and famine, to enjoy and to establish. And we would leave here, also, for the generations which are rising up rapidly to fill our places, some proof that we have endeavored to transmit the great inheritance unimpaired; that in our estimate of public principles and private virtue, in our veneration of religion and piety, in our devotion to civil and religious liberty, in our regard for whatever advances human knowledge or improves human happiness, we are not altogether unworthy of our origin.
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