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Daniel Webster. Daniel Webster for Young Americans
Daniel Webster for Young Americans
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
DANIEL WEBSTER. Chronology
DANIEL WEBSTER. for YOUNG AMERICANS
THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND
THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT
THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT
ADAMS AND JEFFERSON
THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE[25]
THE REPLY TO HAYNE
EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE
THE CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION
THE ADDITION TO THE CAPITOL
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX
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Daniel Webster
Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution
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Nearer to our times, more closely connected with our fates, and therefore still more interesting to our feelings and affections, is the settlement of our own country by colonists from England. We cherish every memorial of these worthy ancestors; we celebrate their patience and fortitude; we admire their daring enterprise; we teach our children to venerate their piety; and we are justly proud of being descended from men who have set the world an example of founding civil institutions on the great and united principles of human freedom and human knowledge. To us, their children, the story of their labors and sufferings can never be without its interest. We shall not stand unmoved on the shore of Plymouth, while the sea continues to wash it; nor will our brethren in another early and ancient colony forget the place of its first establishment, till their river shall cease to flow by it.[8] No vigor of youth, no maturity of manhood, will lead the nation to forget the spots where its infancy was cradled and defended.
